A model is provided by Quora and StackOverflow, which despite being forms of social media, generate consistently high quality results. Wikipedia provides a deliberative model. The secret is gathering quality assessments from users, not just affinity & engagement.
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StackOverflow specifically goes further, in the direction the author is proposing (and well beyond). It calculates and makes public a "reputation" score, which is based on a quantity-weighted score for high quality (highly ranked) contributions.
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1 While not a bad idea in concept, reputation systems themselves have risks of manipulation. For example, if your reputation is % based, then an account designed to distribute fake material could use a bot to find and share enough reputable stuff to hide the hits for fake news,
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2 but if you use discrete reputation markers, then less active facebook users would be automatically more reputable because of less opportunity to share fake news. You'd also see a lot more interested parties investing in manipulating how the legitimacy of news is determined.
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or an independent and objective news media thats not a mouthpiece of the democrat party.
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I tend to agree, but my hunch is that Fact Checkers don't have much public trust (or at least this trust is highly partisan). For these types of proposals to gain traction, I'd guess you need bi-partisan fact checking panels that really serve as epistemic authority figures.
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It’s hard to what to do with ideological bias, which seems to a huge player in what many describe now as “fake news”. There is also the more common problem of simply not telling the whole truth..
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True. The basic point that improving the quality of information is a human problem and not one that machines can magically solve is one that I whole heartedly endorse though.
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Sigh. Won't happen. Fake news thrives because there will a) always be people who want to believe it; and b) (now) there will always be ways to disseminate it. More accurately, NYTimes Op Ed - From "spin" to "lying."
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Why wouldn't such a site be subject to the same issues of bias that supposedly impartial outlets are always subject to? Even politifact leans left. It's a human problem that will unfortunately pervade any human-run institution. And it will only get worse as politics matters more.
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People who use the term “fake news” and hold up shirts like in the above photo have no interest in what’s actually real or fake
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Actually, they are more upset about ideological bias and half-truths than anything else. I see exactly what they are talking about in the NYT and WaPo, and I think it’s a function of a strong public rejection of what’s coming out of critical theory (aka neomarxism).
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And before you laugh and claim this is a right wing conspiracy theory, study it like I did...so much makes perfect sense now that I understand critical theory. Basically it’s being exploited by bad actors, from my perspective. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/critical-theory/ …
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The only real “fix” for fake news is another few million years of human evolution, within a framework of objective natural/cultural selection.
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not gonna work; the concept of trust applied to media is inherently unreliable. any metric you propose will be manipulated in bad faith.
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You mean an unhackable, unimpeachable source?
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Good luck. That’s like implementing Plato’s Republic into reality.
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