Re:Former reporter creates ‘Rate my Professor’ for newsrooms
by Veen on Thursday May 30, 2019 @03:03PM
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> Are there not news verification products
How would a "news verification" service work? It would just be journalists verifying the work of other journalists. There are fact checking platforms, but, again, it's journalists all the way down, at least until you hit primary sources like scientific papers, at which point you have a slightly different verification problem.
At a certain point, you have to accept that your information about current events is going to come from journalists, which is why it's necessary to cross-check it and understand how you might be mislead.
How would a "news verification" service work? It would just be journalists verifying the work of other journalists. There are fact checking platforms, but, again, it's journalists all the way down, at least until you hit primary sources like scientific papers, at which point you have a slightly different verification problem.
At a certain point, you have to accept that your information about current events is going to come from journalists, which is why it's necessary to cross-check it and understand how you might be mislead.