How can the Steem blockchain stop the spread of fake news?
I did this story in the video about a report on fake news.
Turns out right wingers overwhelmingly spread and believe fake news. By the way, I mean ACTUAL fake news, not Trump's use of it, which is just "news I don't like."
Are there ways that the Steem blockchain can prevent the proliferation of fake news?
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Honestly (At the risk of getting 0 upvotes for this post), I fear that Steemit's system might help the spread of fake news even further. The way Steemit works is that you get
a) Near-Absolute Free Speech.
b) Money from the number of likes you get, not the number of views.
This is pretty great for a social media site, however, there's a risk for creators to feel like they need to pander to their audience by validating their biases in order to get more likes, and that would include hiding challenging stories, or twisting them to somehow accommodate their audience's worldview.
The sad truth is that The Truth is not always well received.
one modification, the rewards aren't for the NUMBER of upvotes you get, but rather the Steem Power of those upvotes.
1st up, ;-), I like people with a critical mindset and you are right, Steemit could spread fake news. I am always amazed, for example, how many anti-vaccination guys are promoting their agenda on this platform.
I agree, because people will like things they like to believe in, not what is actually true - Bad and crazy things get far more attention than something that is educational.
a) is the best part of dtube, ending the era of youtube/google/corporate censorship
b) unless you're consuming random content, an echoChamber is always going to exist. It will exist offline too with any tribe or cult: any sports fan is only going to hear the good news about their team and not the bad, no matter what platform they consume that news from.
The real question would be: is the echo chamber generated by the content creator or the consumer?
Have you ever seen the "The Other 98%" on FB or any of the other big left leaning "groups." They consider news to be a meme and rarely is it even close to being accurate. Both sides have a huge fake new issue. Hell, if people would just read the damn content rather than the headline we would all be better off.
If they would do their own research, think for themselves, and put forth a little effort.
Also they really need to learn that whether it makes you uncomfortable or not is not the measure of whether it is fake.
They need to learn that disagreeing with it does not mean it is fake.
If you think it is fake, research it, find some evidence, and write about it, do videos about it, etc.
Yet remember if you are actually trying to help the masses treating them like zombies and bombarding them with the same style fallacies used to promote propaganda is NOT helping them. It just moves them from one brainwash to another without teaching them how to resist brainwash and think for themselves.
"That sounds like bullshit, I should go research it to find out if it is" is substantially different from "That is bullshit! Fake News!"
I've been here a couple months and the insincerity is the first thing that stood out. There are people who share thoughtful comments and you can tell they're just trying to get a vote, but at least they put some time and effort into what they're saying.
The group that bugs me are basically e-beggars with lazy, low-effort "thank you for posting"-type content. It's like chicks fishing for compliments and attention on Insta, but instead of putting SOME work into a cute photo they just snap a pic of themselves laying in bed, messed up hair and face pushed back showing off the double chin.
yeah that is annoying but my practice has been to 100% ignore it. No response, no upvote, no flag. Just pretend it doesn't exist.
Honestly I see general critical thinking skills being a better investment of resources in solving this problem bc it also affects so many other of the problems in society people can stop fake news when they start thinking
I don't disagree with you, and we're actually working on a critical thinking miniseries right now
A bot like a @cheetah to detect and flag fake news should be created, that might be a solution
Hi, I am working on a bot that goes somewhat into this direction, it will be able to dig up high quality posts: TrufflePig an Artificial Intelligence to support Content Curation
Quick Update: HERE is the explanation how it works!
Only Right wingers eh, haha.
Most of it is literally #FakeNews...
Dis/Mis-information has always been around.
Do you think Trump use Fake news to Increase his popularity ?!
Nice post.....
Off topic, why can’t I consistently watch videos from d.tube on my iPad? Sometimes it works sometimes not, sometimes a video I have already watched won’t play but then later it will?
I keep getting broadcast error or content not supported! Anyone else experience this and what should I do too correct it? Do I need to pull out my laptop just for steemit? It’s an old beast but should work alright but I don’t want to reinstall the whole thing(virus) if it is a network thing.
Useful information for me and everyone, thank you for sharing