Re:Fact Checks
by panarky on Sunday October 22, 2017 @06:32PM
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It's more important to start with the easy stuff than to worry about the hard stuff.
And this isn't about a technical solution to conspiracy theories, it's about the markup that will help surface the highest quality human answers to conspiracy theories.
Reminds me of the Bielefeld Conspiracy [0], a German satire of conspiracy theories that spread on Usenet.
The theory poses three questions:
1) Do you know anybody from Bielefeld?
2) Have you ever been to Bielefeld?
3) Do you know anybody who has ever been to Bielefeld?
A majority are expected to answer no to all three queries.
Anybody claiming knowledge about Bielefeld is promptly disregarded as being in on the conspiracy or having been themselves deceived.
Conspiracy theories will always be with us, but at least now Google can help show high-quality answers to easy questions like Bielefeld.
And this isn't about a technical solution to conspiracy theories, it's about the markup that will help surface the highest quality human answers to conspiracy theories.
Reminds me of the Bielefeld Conspiracy [0], a German satire of conspiracy theories that spread on Usenet.
The theory poses three questions:
1) Do you know anybody from Bielefeld?
2) Have you ever been to Bielefeld?
3) Do you know anybody who has ever been to Bielefeld?
A majority are expected to answer no to all three queries.
Anybody claiming knowledge about Bielefeld is promptly disregarded as being in on the conspiracy or having been themselves deceived.
Conspiracy theories will always be with us, but at least now Google can help show high-quality answers to easy questions like Bielefeld.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bielefeld_Conspiracy