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Re:We built a Twitter bot that replies to people who share f... by ratsmack on Sunday December 18, 2016 @01:04PM (#13206785)
This Fake News hysteria seems to be driving a bunch of false concern about protecting the unsuspecting masses from perceived bad information. The problem is manyfold though because fake news can be very subjective, and who will be chosen as the ultimate authority to determine what is fake and what is not.

I believe that there will always be a certain number people that will still believe falsehoods even after they have been given the correct information. I believe it is a bad idea which will weaken societies collective ability to think on their feet and to be able to discern fact from fiction. Let's move this one into the history books for the sake of everyone.

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Re:We built a Twitter bot that replies to people who share f... by JanKoenig on Monday December 19, 2016 @08:45AM (#13211311)
Totally agree with you! This is why we selected only sources that have created obvious hoaxes in the past. I've been thinking a lot about actually writing this post, because I didn't want to add another post on fake news. However, it was interesting for us how people reacted. And that most didn't care at all about the trustworthiness of the stuff they're spreading
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