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That team competed against others to win a challenge from Yale's Poynter Fellowship in Journalism, which asked students to find a way to counter fake news.
The team's software, designed as an extension for Google's Chrome browser, will display a warning screen when someone enters a site known to disseminate fake news. It also will alert a reader if a story shared on social media is fake or biased.
But it does much more than just warn.
"So let's say there is an article that is very pro-Trump on a topic," An said. "We would then try to give you something more left of center. We can go out and find for you that alternative article."
The extension also collects browsing data and can show a user a graph that indicates whether they have been reading stories from just one side of a political spectrum. It curates a news feed for that user, showing alternative stories to the ones they have been reading.
"The solution is not to just tell people if something is fake or not," said Cui. "The solution is to develop a kind of a news auto-immune system."
"So let's say there is an article that is very pro-Trump on a topic," An said. "We would then try to give you something more left of center. We can go out and find for you that alternative article."
Pretty much, thats how conditioned these people are.
originally posted by: IridiumFlareMadness
To these people "fake news" is anything not from a liberal news source. Typical.
originally posted by: Arnie123
Pretty much, thats how conditioned these people are.
originally posted by: IridiumFlareMadness
To these people "fake news" is anything not from a liberal news source. Typical.
originally posted by: IridiumFlareMadness
To these people "fake news" is anything not from a liberal news source. Typical.
originally posted by: dfnj2015
a reply to: LogicalGraphitti
Here's 3 headlines from Fox News and why it is fake news:
1. Trump predicts mandate repeal will kill ObamaCare, spur replacement plan
Thinking about the future is not news. This is just a hook to get better ratings.
2. Trump, Sanders clash on Twitter over new tax law
The law has already passed. Who cares what Sanders thinks.
3. Rosie O'Donnell tells Paul Ryan he's going 'straight to hell'
Speculation about who is going to hell is not news.
Years ago there was a newspaper you could buy in the grocery store called "The National Enquirer". Our news outlets are just the National Enquirer in video form.
The plug-in uses existing sentiment analysis technology to analyze any story that might appear in a newsfeed, identifying the major players and any political slant. It then can suggest to the reader other stories on the same topic that have an alternate viewpoint.
Thinking about the future is not news. This is just a hook to get better ratings.
originally posted by: dfnj2015
a reply to: LogicalGraphitti
Here's 3 headlines from Fox News and why it is fake news:
1. Trump predicts mandate repeal will kill ObamaCare, spur replacement plan
Thinking about the future is not news. This is just a hook to get better ratings.
2. Trump, Sanders clash on Twitter over new tax law
The law has already passed. Who cares what Sanders thinks.
3. Rosie O'Donnell tells Paul Ryan he's going 'straight to hell'
Speculation about who is going to hell is not news.
Years ago there was a newspaper you could buy in the grocery store called "The National Enquirer". Our news outlets are just the National Enquirer in video form.
originally posted by: dfnj2015
Years ago there was a newspaper you could buy in the grocery store called "The National Enquirer". Our news outlets are just the National Enquirer in video form.
originally posted by: butcherguy
a reply to: dfnj2015
Thinking about the future is not news. This is just a hook to get better ratings.
When the MSM tells us that the new tax bill will increase the national debt by however many trillion dollars.... aren't they doing the same thing?
originally posted by: butcherguy
Factor in that they conveniently forget to remind their audience that the last POTUS increased the debt by 10 trillion dollars.... yeah fake news.
"You had the authority to prevent irresponsible lending practices that led to the subprime mortgage crisis. You were advised to do so by many others," said Representative Henry A. Waxman of California, chairman of the committee. "Do you feel that your ideology pushed you to make decisions that you wish you had not made?"
Mr. Greenspan conceded: "Yes, I've found a flaw. I don't know how significant or permanent it is. But I've been very distressed by that fact."
originally posted by: eManym
I would think the key would be to develop an algorithm that determines whether a writing is subjective or objective. Objective writing is conveying the facts and observations about something. Subjective writing is conveying personal opinions, and emotional responses about something. For obvious reasons objective report is factual and subjective reporting is fake.
originally posted by: dfnj2015
Everyone is fully aware the debt increased under Obama. The problem with people like you is you do not understand why. There is no bill signed into law by Obama that caused the debt increase. All the safety net programs automatically increased the debt. All those programs were created by previous presidents. And the debt would not have ballooned if GWB administration did not destroy the economy in 2008 by not regulating sub-prime mortgage because of ideological reasons.