Of course the real danger is that they will get hacked and their coverage will actually get better :-)
On a more serious note is would probably be worthwhile for news agencies to to at least put a digital fingerprint on their published stories to raise the cost of creating a credible fake story.
Anyone have input on how to best identify the first people disseminating the false media?
A few notable pro-Assad twitter users were quick with spreading the links around, started to think about potential ways to trace sharing backwards as far as possible. Suggestions?
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[ 197 ms ] story [ 907 ms ] threadhttp://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/09/business/09air.html?_r=1
and imagine it being posted intentionally by someone with a large short position.
On a more serious note is would probably be worthwhile for news agencies to to at least put a digital fingerprint on their published stories to raise the cost of creating a credible fake story.
Some background links:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21506-assad-masses-syr...
http://www.theworld.org/2011/06/syrian-government-takes-the-...
A few notable pro-Assad twitter users were quick with spreading the links around, started to think about potential ways to trace sharing backwards as far as possible. Suggestions?