Spinning a Web of Lies at Digital Speed
Experimental sites like newstrust.net hope to create ratings systems from authorities who evaluate news articles on a range of criteria, and are themselves rated by the raters. (One of my articles was vetted by four reviewers and received a 4 out of 5 in terms of accuracy from its four reviewers.)
Fabrice Florin, the founder of News Trust, said sites like his would be crucial to flagging inaccuracy, though he said, “we probably wouldn’t be as ...
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We're very grateful to be included in this report as a newsworthy experiment to address the important issue of misinformation on the Internet. [Disclosure: I head NewsTrust, which is cited in this article.]