Google helping fight "fake news"

[LouderVol]

I just find it more entertaining that Snopes and PolitiFact have already "passed" the test so to speak.

Exactly what kind of criteria are they using anyway?

And FTR, I don't really consider Snopes a news site in the traditional sense.

definitely agreed on the last part.

my only point is they at least try to back up the single sided view point they press.

 

[OuterBanksVol]

I have actually been contemplating creating a fake news site. Not for the money, solely for the entertainment. As PT Barnum said...

 

[UT_Dutchman]

I have actually been contemplating creating a fake news site. Not for the money, solely for the entertainment. As PT Barnum said...

We have you and volpuf on here, that's all we'll ever need.

 

[OuterBanksVol]

We have you and volpuf on here, that's all we'll ever need.

Ha! Presto, you appear. PT Barnum would be proud!

 

[UT_Dutchman]

Ha! Presto, you appear. PT Barnum would be proud!

Isn't it past your bedtime?

 

[Godfatha]

So Google, a left-leaning company, is using left leaning news organizations to tell us what is true and what is false. I see no problem with that.

 

[golfballs]

Fake News is failing. Snopes now resorting to fundraising on GoFundMe lol

 

[FLVOL_79]

Wow..posts from OuterbanksVol after November 2016...didn't think I'd see that ever again after his hilarious HRC predictions.....................

 

[DinkinFlicka]

Fake News is failing. Snopes now resorting to fundraising on GoFundMe lol

Looks like they broke that goal in less than 24 hours. Interesting.

 

[Obsessed]

Looks like they broke that goal in less than 24 hours. Interesting.

Those nasty lawsuits get expensive.

 

[Arclight]

Have the Dem-Lib Journalism Professors START teaching students how to be journalists instead of lackeys for the Democratic Party.

 

[Rasputin_Vol]

Billionaires To Fund "Anti-Disinformation" Media Companies To "Restore Social Trust" | ZeroHedge

It must be hard trying to herd the cats and maintain narratives all the time. Simply too much decentralization. Gotta take control of the news with a huge mega-company.

The company said that an “increasingly decentralized media environment, anti-democracy forces, and networks of bad actors” have resulted in “dangerous consequences,” noting that 96 million Americans believe the election was stolen from former President Donald Trump, while 89 million Americans believe voter fraud is a major problem.

I wonder why 90 million Americans would believe in election fraud?

One of the companies ACRONYM invested in, called Shadow, produced the vote tabulation app used in the Iowa caucuses and contributed to the delayed reporting of the results following a string of technical issues.

McGowan later apologized for the incident, telling Axios that the Shadow team, “made an enormous mistake that has dire consequences in this election and so we want to own that.”