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Re:Experiment finds under 1 in 10 people can tell sponsored ... by lettergram on Saturday January 19, 2019 @04:38PM (#18949342)
I actually wrote a little application which mitigates this:

https://lettergram.net/

Basically, you follow topics and it sends you relevant material that has been vetted. You can get it on a monthly, weeekly, daily, or real-time basis.

Overall, I think this is essentially the “end” (if there ever was a beginning) of an informed population.

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Re:Experiment finds under 1 in 10 people can tell sponsored ... by jammygit on Saturday January 19, 2019 @05:23PM (#18949583)
How is it vetted?
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Re:Experiment finds under 1 in 10 people can tell sponsored ... by lettergram on Saturday January 19, 2019 @05:32PM (#18949636)
It’s auto curated, but we use the metacortex platform our company built. That works by ranking experts in related fields and then ranking content they discuss accordingly.

It works extremely well, and some of our data sources include hacker news and reddit.

As such you can see it in action:

https://hnprofile.com/

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Re:Experiment finds under 1 in 10 people can tell sponsored ... by jammygit on Saturday January 19, 2019 @08:10PM (#18950314)
Reasonable results from a few queries, well done!
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