(1) Make it transparent what's being treated as fake news. Publish a list of long-term and current-trending topics.
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Replying to @RichFelker @pwnallthethings
(2) Be intentionally broad. Don't call a climate article fake for one misinterpreted fact. Call if fake if overall message is denialism.
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Two tweets in and we're already in hot water. Here's an example. Decouple it from climate change. Let's say e.g. the Trump-Russia affair
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There are stories across the political range on this topic. At both ends there is garbage.
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But the point on that spectrum where you draw that line is not the same as where someone else will. And that choice is not unbiased.
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The choice to sit by and profit while fascists come to power through misinformation is much less unbiased.
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Replying to @RichFelker @pwnallthethings
Of course there's a much better way this could be prevented than trying to limit fake news, but people will balk even more...
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...and that's to ban every account associated with hate movements (neo-nazi, MRA, ...).
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Replying to @cooljeanius @pwnallthethings
What I meant was someting along the lines of regularly posting content in favor of such movements or attacking their targets.
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To establish a transparent program for actually doing it you'd go through a more rigorous process than my writing of a tweet.
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