> The Associated Press is now going to start fact-checking some videos in the US, and Facebook will start including “Trust Indicators” when users click to see context around a publication. Those indicators come from The Trust Project, a group built by news organizations that makes those determinations.
But I think it will take decades, not years -- before western journalism, and major online news distribution sources will rid themselves of stigma of being 'propaganda arm of US coup orchestrators'.
So trusting the members of trust project will have to be earned, not assumed...
Recent revelations about Google
'The manual adjustment of search results by a Google-owned platform contradicts a key claim made under oath by Google CEO Sundar Pichai in his congressional testimony earlier this month: that his company does not “manually intervene on any search result.'
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 34.7 ms ] threadDon't worry. You can trust them.
I know I'm being sarcastic, but having news organizations decide if news is trustworthy is like a doctor trying to work on his own cancer, right?
I totally want that process to be in the hands of CNN, the same company that tried to dox a teenager over a Trump meme......
But I think it will take decades, not years -- before western journalism, and major online news distribution sources will rid themselves of stigma of being 'propaganda arm of US coup orchestrators'.
So trusting the members of trust project will have to be earned, not assumed...
Recent revelations about Google
'The manual adjustment of search results by a Google-owned platform contradicts a key claim made under oath by Google CEO Sundar Pichai in his congressional testimony earlier this month: that his company does not “manually intervene on any search result.'
is not helping the trust rebuilding either.
[1] https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/01/16/google-youtube-sea...
Most of the false information I see shared on Facebook is from pages, not groups.