Love the idea, may I ask how you base your flagging system? is it with some sort of reputation score or you have a list of questionable websites you defined by hand?
This is so dumb that it's dangerous. The actual problem is human. If somebody doesn't understand that a clickbait headline about vaccines being dangerous is demonstrably false then the problem is too deep for a cutesy algorithm to solve with a little popup.
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@trevorstricker Well, at least that will help them a bit. But another solution is really needed to make people less susceptible to fake news
We need more prototyping and exploratory work on these kinds of products. Time for Facebook to integrate a BS detector like this!
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The challenge here is assumptive sites that you consider B.S. I suggest having a voting number so you could flag it according to your source. However, you could still see that "x"
# people agree or "x" do not". This actually brings more creditability to the tool too, so it's not biased.
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This extension causes some pretty bad performance issues for me on Chrome. Scrolling any page brought my CPU usage up to 40%+ ☹
This is much much better than just filtering whatever from twitter feed, yes, but doesn't really help with the core problem.
That won't help us filter out fake news from feeds of people who this fake news targeted in the first place.
@xnutsive well, i don't want to censor fake news, i want to warn people that it's fake. people should be able to post and share whatever content they want, even if it's complete b.s.. there just ought to be a warning label.
@selfagency great point (about warning not censoring).
Is there a good way to push this extension to more users? I saw the TNW article (I think?), congrats, that's really, really cool.
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