Re:Is Fake News Spam?
by OJFord on Thursday May 30, 2019 @06:15AM
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I get a lot of spam, mostly correctly categorised for me, but some leaks through.
I do find it a solved problem in the sense that it's easy to deal with though - as long as we're considering phishing a separate issue - it's easy to identify spam (I get several identical messages, possibly just from a different name, at the same time apart from anything else!) and click a button to get rid of it.
It's much harder to identify 'fake news', and even if you do once you've forgotten about it it may be in the back of your mind as a thing you heard, and forgot you proved false.
I do find it a solved problem in the sense that it's easy to deal with though - as long as we're considering phishing a separate issue - it's easy to identify spam (I get several identical messages, possibly just from a different name, at the same time apart from anything else!) and click a button to get rid of it.
It's much harder to identify 'fake news', and even if you do once you've forgotten about it it may be in the back of your mind as a thing you heard, and forgot you proved false.