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goobster  ·  2900 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Angela Merkel Backs Fake News Ban

Right. Because Angela Merkel will be involved in some practical way in tagging fake news sites.

Seriously, man. You can do better than that.

Fact-checking is a well-defined and understood skill set that is simply being applied to new medium that desperately needs it. This isn't hard, technologically, logically, ideologically, manpower-wise, or in any other way.

(Shit, let's just flip the problem around and create a Verified tag, like Verisign did. That's a 20-year old solution that still works today.)