Fake news, aka news that doesn't fit my agenda
Fake News Challenge
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#42>It should be possible to build a prototype post-facto “truth labeling” system [...] Such a system would tentatively label a claim or story as true/false based on the stances taken by various news organizations on the topic, weighted by their credibility. And of course nobody would love this technology more than the Chinese and Russian governments. Is a system aimed at quickly identifying obscure blogs that disagree…
Why China and Russia specifically?
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#43 function isFakeNews(news_piece){
var list_of_legit_sources = _get_current_approved_sources(); // makes synchronous http request to illuminati.com/api
if list_of_legit_sources.inArray(getSource(news_piece)) return false; else return true;
}
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#44It seems like Wikipedia would be familiar with a lot of the same challenges that come with identifying fake news articles. Anyone more familiar than I am with Wikipedia care to comment?
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#45>Such a system would tentatively label a claim or story as true/false based on the stances taken by various news organizations on the topic, weighted by their credibility.
Oh right, because we can all agree on which news organizations are credible. /s
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#46Mainstream media and their corporate backers have already lost this battle. This whole fake news attempt to remain relevant has backfired already, since it's much easier to prove that the peddlers of fake news are those who uncritically backed and still excuse the Iraq war, Libya catastrophe, attempted overthrow of the Syrian government just to name a few recent adventures.
They've been beaten at their own game by an opponent better at using modern/popular methods of disseminating information.
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#47Alas we are not supposed to use that term anymore: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/its-time-to-r... Also somehow CNN shows in the front page of result for "fake news" image search on Google. It wouldn't be totally wrong, depending on how the term is defined.
Fact: 99% of "fake news website" classifications are in fact false.
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#48This is not solvable by humans or machine learning. For example "leonardo dicaprio charity linked to 3 bil money laundering scandal", "raport says trump spent night with hookers in Russia", "angelina jolie divorcig brad pitt", "terrorist attack in Paris, 200 dead" etc. Some of those headlines seems like clickbait and false news but they are not, good luck with classifying those and similar.
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#49How about a 'subjectiveness' ranking instead, with notations for "unable to find link to a source of factual claims"? That's the best we could ever safely do, and we would likely find interesting results (WaPo might be labeled more subjective than Fox News, for example, even though both would generally have low numbers of notations for 'unable to find link to source of factual claim'). As I said in another post: The…
> Regardless, the most dangerous form of "fake news" is by the selection/omission of stories
This. Very true, and woefully absent from most discussions regarding "fake news".
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#50Alas we are not supposed to use that term anymore: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/its-time-to-r... Also somehow CNN shows in the front page of result for "fake news" image search on Google. It wouldn't be totally wrong, depending on how the term is defined.
Probably because the washington post has gotten caught enough times writing fake news:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2017/01/01/fake-new...