You need a browser extension for this nowadays? Is the target audience so judgement-impaired that they can't, you know, not click on obvious clickbait and think about what they're seeing on Facebook?
Show HN: Stop the Bullshit
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#12Zoom out one meta level:
Show HN: Stop the Stop-the-Bullshit.
A Fake Fake News Detector Detector.
Wait, but then we would need Stop the Stop the Stop-the-Bullshit.... um... but what if?!!
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#13Fake news = news we don't like. This is just another way to make secluded echo chambers. I see some people learned nothing from the election.
Spot on -- some folks just want to live in their echo chamber.
Is CNN blacklisted? They were a major source of fake news this election.
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#14There have been a lot of these projects lately. It's clever, but I am not close to being convinced that fake news is a problem that we can engineer our way out of.
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#15This will be subjective at some point beyond the BuzzFeeds of the Internet.
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#16Fake news = news we don't like. This is just another way to make secluded echo chambers. I see some people learned nothing from the election.
No, fake news = spam sites built from scripts consisting largely of a backcatalog nonsense stories ("Pope endorses Putin for US Presidential Election") with a one or two carefully produced fake stories as a "payload", instead of a purchasing call-to-action like other webspam sites.
The example of "endingthefed.com" (appears to be an ultra-conservative platform, but nothing overly nonsensical) from the README implies otherwise.
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#17You need a browser extension for this nowadays? Is the target audience so judgement-impaired that they can't, you know, not click on obvious clickbait and think about what they're seeing on Facebook?
> Is the target audience so judgement-impaired
As we've seen this last election, yes, they are. How else do you explain millions of shares on "news" stories that are immediately, obviously false to anyone looking past the headlines?
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#18Nice! I love this idea. What happens when most sites that deliver news have at least some bullshit?
That's really the issue. It's just a question of whose bullshit. Bullshit of the rich media mughals? Right wing conservatives? Liberal elite? Environmentalists? Alt-right nutters? At the end of the day, media has stopped being about objectivity, just as long as there is a semblance, anything goes. People tell lies, or next to lies in order to get people to see things their ways. It's just a question of the level of sophistication of those lies. Outright lies are the lowest level of sophistication, all the way up to manufactured consent.
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#19There have been a lot of these projects lately. It's clever, but I am not close to being convinced that fake news is a problem that we can engineer our way out of.
If it at least amplifies awareness in the general public about the problem, it's done it's job.
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#20There have been a lot of these projects lately. It's clever, but I am not close to being convinced that fake news is a problem that we can engineer our way out of.
If it at least amplifies awareness in the general public about the problem, it's done it's job.
Isn't that exactly what the fake news sites works say?