If you want to avoid accusations of bias, have a nonprofit third-party organization do it.
Why do you need algorithms to catch fake news? Surely there's a power law distribution. Why not use humans to catch the worst instances?
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could not agree more. FB tried this already but got uncomfortable when the right accused them of bias http://gizmodo.com/facebooks-fight-against-fake-news-was-undercut-by-fear-1788808204 …
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because humans lie
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I guess there might be "easy" heuristics for the worse instances (domain name age, number of other news from the same site, etc)
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I think you may be naive here about power of the echo chamber. Fake news rocketed on Facebook when it delivered the "right" message
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@paulg who decides what is fake news? E.g. is Russia Today is fake news or not? How about a story on climate change?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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as usual, every 21st century media critique returns to the base case: how do we separate signal from noise without bias
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because they scale better?
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With a power law distribution you don't need scale.
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