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A comment on Facebook to Let Users Rank Credibility of News. Parent comment

Re:Facebook to Let Users Rank Credibility of News by yAnonymous on Monday January 22, 2018 @09:40AM (#16204633)
An educated person can judge the trustworthiness of a source well enough.
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Re:Facebook to Let Users Rank Credibility of News by pixl97 on Monday January 22, 2018 @10:04AM (#16204812)
No they cant.

See, I can make things up too. Furthermore the amount of education necessary to judge the trustworthiness of all potential subjects is not obtainable by an individual, meaning they have to hope the experts they choose to listen to aren't making it up.

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Re:Facebook to Let Users Rank Credibility of News by yAnonymous on Monday January 22, 2018 @04:23PM (#16208031)
Yes, they can.

If all you do to measure trustworthiness is check if the person has an expert tag, I can see your problem.

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