Misguided idea, imo. Trying to "fact-check" whatever one encounters (because it's digital) is counterproductive and, frankly, an authoritarian impulse. Plus, journalists should NOT be reporting on everything they can access. News value and public interest, not gossip and prying.https://twitter.com/NiemanLab/status/1359934480417501185 …
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That’s a very tendentious reading. That piece doesn’t advocate that everything be fact-checked, it just notes that it’s structurally difficult to do so — just like WhatsApp, for example.
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Whatsapp was built for virality (and some got clawed back) and has end-to-end encryption twist. Other than that, if these rooms are big enough to be public events? One does what one has always done, report newsworthy ones. But why fact-check people talking if not amplified?
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Something on WhatsApp could reach hundreds of millions or billions of people, quickly. Right now their cap is what, 5000? Plus ephemeral. Can’t forward content. Doesn’t seem like a reasonable target.
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