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Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/0UkOYtBzlds/crowdsourced-volunteers-search-for-solutions-to-fake-news
Crowdsourced Volunteers Search For Solutions To Fake News
Upworthy co-founder Eli Pariser is leading a group of online volunteers hunting for ways to respond to the spread of fake news. An anonymous reader quotes Wired UK:Inside a Google Doc, volunteers are gathering ideas and approaches to get a grip on the untruthful news stories. It is part analysis, part brainstorming, with those involved being encouraged to read widely around the topic before contributing. "This is a massive endeavour but well worth it," they say... At present, the group is coming up with a list of potential solutions and approaches. Possible methods the group is looking at include: more human editors, fingerprinting viral stories then training algorithms on confirmed fakes, domain checking, the blockchain, a reliability algorithm, sentiment analysis, a Wikipedia for news sources, and more. The article also suggests this effort may one day spawn fake news-fighting tech startups.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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