Fighting fake news has little to do with determining "what is true" - no more than spam filtering is about determining "what is interesting"
Imagine if email providers were saying "oh, determining interestingness is such a hard problem. So it's impossible to filter spam at all!"
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Most likely, if there was a powerful political lobby that benefited from email spam, then that's exactly what you would be hearing.
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Why (just) "political lobby" pushing fake news? Facebk benefits too when users share/like/click fake news.https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/802293057836060673 …
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Spam is mostly solved by human in the loop(labelled by humans as spam)-News has no f/b loop yet
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Who should be ones filtering fake news, then? Internet browser:fake news::email provider:spam?
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possibly the browser, or otherwise the distribution networks (e.g. Facebook) that are currently *promoting* those.
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