Open thread, Apr. 10 - Apr. 16, 2017

MrMind

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Half of the US voted for Trump. If Facebook would make a move that would censor a lot of pro-Trump lies it risks losing a significant portion of it's audience.

Finally, if you were to build a site from ground-up, how would you design around the issue of spreading false information?

I'm not sure whether the function of verifying the quality of news articles is best fulfilled by a traditional social network. If I would care to solve the problem I would build a browser plugin that provides quality ratings of articles and websites. Users can vote and there's a machine learning algorithm that translates the user votes into a good quality metric.