Fake news as a service; CNN and NBC have been doing that for decades... well ahead of the curve.
Telling only part of the story, showing bias, spinning things. Surely. But fake news? Examples please..
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#22I've been working on some algorithms I think can identify fake news easily and reliably. The key part is you have to have a massive dataset of historical information. With Datastreamer (my company) we have about 1PB of news, blogs, and social media from the last 4-5 years. I'm curious if it would make sense to ship an open/public API that would allow people both to report AND check on whether something is fake news.…
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#23I've been working on some algorithms I think can identify fake news easily and reliably. The key part is you have to have a massive dataset of historical information. With Datastreamer (my company) we have about 1PB of news, blogs, and social media from the last 4-5 years. I'm curious if it would make sense to ship an open/public API that would allow people both to report AND check on whether something is fake news.…
What would make more sense is to build a certificate system around this that news organizations can use to declare an article is Fake News Free. Might be a nice business to start riding the Fake News Boom.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is your talk or similar online anywhere?
Unfortunately, I don't believe it was recorded. That said I've been submitting it to some local TedXs so hopefully, I can get a recording in the near future.
Would you happen to have a slides or transcripts then ?
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#26I have come across cloned news site of mirror.co.uk promoting crypto-currency scams.
They talk about it here: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/warning-fake-mirror-we...
It was from an advert on a legitimate website, but it had redirects/popups that show only on mobile devices.(this seems to affect a lot of even normally very trustworthy websites for some reason)
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#27Targeted smearing and destroying of one's reputation is quite an old endeavour. Works amazingly well online, too. Don't give up Internet anonymity like some governments want you to.
Vide Judge Kavanaugh.
Some of the later accusations could have been targeted smears, or they could have been true.
But if Dr. Ford was intentionally lying in an attempt to smear Kavanaugh, she was laying the groundwork for her accusation all the way back in 2012. That's a pretty far reaching conspiracy.
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#28Fake news as a service; CNN and NBC have been doing that for decades... well ahead of the curve.
Telling only part of the story, showing bias, spinning things. Surely. But fake news? Examples please..
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#29Direct link without lead harvesting nonsense: http://info.digitalshadows.com/rs/457-XEY-671/images/Digital... This is super lazy, the paper seems like it was produced by a PR drone whose knowledge on the subject was limited to a list of keywords to google.
The article itself is pretty lazy too, like it was a paid placement. It mentions "Digital Shadows" nine times.
The way theregister.co.uk works is that along with their own writers, anyone can submit articles. They pick whether to publish it it/edit then publish.
Most news sites do this, even the biggest and most respected. But I think they get a larger amount of their content this way, and consequentially some of it can be a bit self-promoty.
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#30If you haven't seen Century of the Self[1] I recommend it. It is a documentary about the history, and rise of PR. We are now, perhaps, at the end of the century of the self - as the trustworthiness (and hence value) of broadcast information drops to zero (not that it has yet, but it will). How our current news/media copes, and what replaces it are still unknown. 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnPmg0R1M04
Good point. I highly recommend this documentary to anyone who hasn't watched it.