Re:Fact Checks
by gleenn on Sunday October 22, 2017 @05:24PM
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I think the trolls will obviously come out to attack this but it seems like a nice extra data point from sites. They aren't obligated to show the data, they could just whitelist sites that they believe are 100% not trolls and then consider other sources based on a history of correctness or human verification. Imagine if they just added the top 10 news sites as valid sources. Then I bet some site like Snopes would pop up as valid because they had a history of agreement with some credible source. It's like Pagerank with trust instead of inbound links.
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Google has a logistical leg up here, in that the internet isn't a sea of faceless IP addresses like it might be for a startup in the same position.
Google has a lot of information on us explaining how to rate this new information.