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

Who cares?

The simplest fact-checking can prove any news story as plausible or bullshit. It's Journalism 101. The thing that first year J-school students do as an internship for the New York Times, or whoever the Newspaper happens to be in their town.





OftenBen  ·  2900 days ago  ·  link  ·  

People who don't want Big Brother Merkel deciding if they get to receive messages from people known to propagate bad-think

goobster  ·  2900 days ago  ·  link  ·  

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.)

OftenBen  ·  2900 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm not worried about Merkel. I'm worried about those who come after.

Part of the reason Trump is so dangerous is because he's being trusted with tools that we shouldn't have even trusted Obama with.

I don't trust who comes next.