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Re:U.S. Unleashes Military to Fight Fake News, Disinformation by Leary on Saturday August 31, 2019 @03:15PM (#20848255)
There should be a clear distinction between news that are factually false and those that share viewpoints that are counter to the mainstream. Labeling the latter "disinformation" is a mere act of political speech.
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Re:U.S. Unleashes Military to Fight Fake News, Disinformation by specialist on Saturday August 31, 2019 @03:38PM (#20848375)
I respectfully disagree.

I just want two things.

1/ Show your work. Data, code, citations, attributed quotes, whatever.

2/ Sign your work.

Then everyone so inclined can determine truthiness at their leisure. Just like with academic publishing.

Omitting 1 means it's just opinion, 2 means gossip, both means propaganda.

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Re:U.S. Unleashes Military to Fight Fake News, Disinformation by smsm42 on Saturday August 31, 2019 @03:51PM (#20848438)
There should be. We've tried it with "fact checkers". Most devolved into political operators rather quickly. Apparently it's not so easy to do, and probably not because we lack technology.
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