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November 29, 2011 04:24 am GMT
Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/prM_G101E0A/
True Or False? Automatic Fact-Checking Coming To The Web Complications Follow
The social layer has settled on the web like a dusting of multicolored snowflakes, gracing every story with a little menagerie of sharing counts and buttons. Once basic standards of content publishing were established, basic standards of sharing had to be as well, the internet being as it is a medium of information transmission. First you get the content, then you move it around. We're still working on the moving around part.Another layering we've seen is the layering of the internet onto the real world. Location-based networking, maps, deals, all that. As soon as we had the ability to tell the world where we were, that information was naturally integrated into our services.Yet another combination is emerging: the layering of reference and context onto the information you read. What this even comprises is difficult to say exactly, but MIT Media Lab grad student Daniel Schultz (@slifty) has one idea: a browser script that automatically checks what you're reading against reliable, substantiated facts. It's a simple idea with innumerable approaches, problems, and implications — which means we'll probably be dealing with it for a long time.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/prM_G101E0A/
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