Show HN: Stop the Bullshit

#1

Post by jnotarstefano » Sun, Nov 20, 2016, 2:37 PM UTC

Re: Show HN: Stop the Bullshit

#2

Post by centizen » Sun, Nov 20, 2016, 5:15 PM UTC

Very nice project, I will definitely be using it and will try to contribute in my spare time.

One recommendation I'd have is not to use the word 'safety' in this context, it feels kind of overprotective. Perhaps the link should read "Take me back to reality" instead?

Re: Show HN: Stop the Bullshit

#3

Post by invisible » Sun, Nov 20, 2016, 5:18 PM UTC

Nice! I love this idea. What happens when most sites that deliver news have at least some bullshit?

Re: Show HN: Stop the Bullshit

#4

Post by [deleted] » Sun, Nov 20, 2016, 5:18 PM UTC

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Re: Show HN: Stop the Bullshit

#5

Post by lj3 » Sun, Nov 20, 2016, 5:19 PM UTC

Fake 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.

Re: Show HN: Stop the Bullshit

#6

Post by elihu » Sun, Nov 20, 2016, 5:21 PM UTC

How does it work? Is it just a blacklist?

> "Also includes a clustering analysis that could lead to an algorithm to automatically detect Fake News."

This implies that they want to do automatic fake news detection, but aren't quite there yet. Is that correct?

Re: Show HN: Stop the Bullshit

#7

Post by tptacek » Sun, Nov 20, 2016, 5:21 PM UTC

lj3 wrote: post #5

Fake 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.

Re: Show HN: Stop the Bullshit

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Nov 20, 2016, 5:22 PM UTC

lj3 wrote: post #5

Fake 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.

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Re: Show HN: Stop the Bullshit

#9

Post by spejson » Sun, Nov 20, 2016, 5:24 PM UTC

I was working on something similar, but with a database that would contain credibility ratings from users and users would rate the website. The extension was supposed to display the rating and ev. warnings on top of the website.

Nice project. I may use it :)

Re: Show HN: Stop the Bullshit

#10

Post by makepanic » Sun, Nov 20, 2016, 5:25 PM UTC

elihu wrote: post #6

How does it work? Is it just a blacklist? > "Also includes a clustering analysis that could lead to an algorithm to automatically detect Fake News." This implies that they want to do automatic fake news detection, but aren't quite there yet. Is that correct?

Looks like it's currently using a hard coded list of urls that are considered to be bad.

For general requests: https://github.com/jacquerie/stop-the-bullshit/blob/master/s...

For facebook: https://github.com/jacquerie/stop-the-bullshit/blob/master/s...