Re:Facebook will now ask users to rank news organizations th...
by dragonwriter on Friday January 19, 2018 @06:09PM
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> We decided that having the community determine which sources are broadly trusted would be most objective
If the goal is to determine what people trust, sure. [0]
If the goal is to determine what is trustworthy, no.
You can't really fight fake news with the first, since obviously a successful propaganda outlet will be trusted.
[0] Well, if user accounts mapped 1:1 to people, which Facebook liked to pretend they do but, well, they don't, in part as a mechanism to game FB algorithms, and this just adds another incentive to that.
If the goal is to determine what people trust, sure. [0]
If the goal is to determine what is trustworthy, no.
You can't really fight fake news with the first, since obviously a successful propaganda outlet will be trusted.
[0] Well, if user accounts mapped 1:1 to people, which Facebook liked to pretend they do but, well, they don't, in part as a mechanism to game FB algorithms, and this just adds another incentive to that.