Re:Facebook blocks links to B.S. Detector, fake news warning...
by SomeStupidPoint on Friday December 02, 2016 @09:04PM
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How does Facebook determine if something is true prior to the political choice of the method they'll use to determine truth?
You just moved words around, but my original question is still there: how do you without any political decisions determine what is true?
There is no single method for determining truth, thus which for a collective to use is fundamentally a political choice.
You and a sibling comment seem to be forgetting that we need to decide how we're going to determine truth before we go about doing it. In fact, you assume Facebook knows a fact (that potshops dont accept foodstamps), but how does Facebook know that is a fact or not?
Re:Facebook blocks links to B.S. Detector, fake news warning...
by serge2k on Friday December 02, 2016 @07:34PM
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ha, it's quite obvious if you check the front page http://nationalreport.net/
They may need to make things more obvious.
For example, if an article states that Colorado pot shops accept food stamps [1] or that Dearborn in Michigan follows Sharia law [2] perhaps Facebook could determine those articles are satirical because they aren't true?
[1] http://www.denverpost.com/2014/01/14/fake-report-about-color... [2] http://nationalreport.net/city-michigan-first-fully-implemen...