Re:Show HN: I made a platform for journalists to “open sourc...
by beat on Thursday April 04, 2019 @01:54PM
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People post contradictory evidence to journalism they don't like all the time. Their "evidence" is usually conspiracy theory crap that can't pass even logic checking, much less fact checking.
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Re:Show HN: I made a platform for journalists to “open sourc...
by weberc2 on Thursday April 04, 2019 @02:59PM
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Sure, but it's not easy to find all of the debate about a given assertion in a particular article, much less contribute to that debate (given that it's probably distributed across a bunch of social media venues).
One can easily imagine hovering over a given assertion (e.g., "Damore posted an anti-diversity screed") and see the fact-checks, perhaps ranked by fact-checker's credibility in order to suppress conspiracy theory crap as well as contribute to the debate.
Anyway, that there is lots of noise among the criticism doesn't mean that there isn't a lot of valid criticism. It's only been a few months since nearly the whole American newsmedia willfully mislead the nation, sending an angry mob after innocent kids, after all.