B.S. Detector

I built this in about an hour yesterday after reading Zuck's BS about not being able to flag fake news sites. Of course you can. It just takes having a spine to call out nonsense. This is just a proof of concept at this point, but it works well enough.

I tweeted this an hour ago: I love the internet.

ME whenever Trump's surrogates are doing an interview:

So basically: 1) fake news sites are curated, so it COULD be biased 2) a news site changing domain / new fake news sites would require a plugin update 3) this does not prevent e.g. Bloomberg from spreading BS. But cool idea :-)

Great idea! On which base do you mark a website as a questionable source? BTW, just a point of view here, but I personally doubt that this could be efficient at a large scale, as a great part of the people reading those kind of websites already believe traditional media are in fact questionable sources, and all the "rigged" BS that Trump has been serving during the whole campain. Speaking from France, I can tell you that conspirationist/far right/racist/xenophobic websites that are favored by Marine Le Pen's (leader of the far right party, and runner for President in 2017) electors are considered the sources that tell you what the government and the traditional media won't, even though it's most of the time 100% BS.

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I do like the concept but I really think this is unattainable. It's cool that you're talking about 'warning' rather than outright censoring but I feel that this is a lazy person's tool. This kind of stuff only deepens people's biases by labelling some sites as 'questionable' - what about when they produce something that is true but you've flagged as 'fake' and then what about when CNN publishes fake stuff that turns out to be true? Will you have a counter/accountability mechanism that informs people how accurate the tool is over a certain time frame? So if your tool gets x amount of 'flags' wrong, it should also be seen as an untrustworthy source. Full self accountability.. I really do like the concept but feel this is a knee jerk exercise as a result of the last week's events. There is not a 'I hacked this together in an hour' solution to this problem. People need to get more diligent, news organisations more honest..the list goes on It's a whole f***ing process :) but this is a start I guess..