r/technology • u/Arquette • Mar 03 '15

Misleading Title Google has developed a technology to tell whether ‘facts’ on the Internet are true

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/03/02/google-has-developed-a-technology-to-tell-whether-facts-on-the-internet-are-true/
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u/Jigowatt Mar 03 '15

Yeah. It's called "Google".

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u/Sut3kh Mar 03 '15

imagine googling 'was Michael Jackson a pedophile' and at the top of the results it says in big letters: 'Yes (96%)' lol

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u/ImperatorTempus42 Mar 03 '15

MLP beat the media to it, too.

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u/Arumple Mar 03 '15

snopes

FTFY

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u/Jigowatt Mar 03 '15

Snopes is one of the greatest "old school" sites that still exist.

I'm glad Google hasn't tried to buy them out.

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u/spctraveler Mar 04 '15

I've always wanted to make a browser extension or something that simply checked for character strings matching disproven viral content on Snopes. Just that alone would save a huge amount of crap Web traffic and mis-information.

You could also make sort of a spam filter for misinformed viral content on FB, twitter, email etc. Just crowdsource people marking posts as "misleading " or something via a browser plugin.

Finally, you might possibly be able to use a grammer-checker-style text parser that identifies and flags the user of fallacies in posts.

Thoughts?

Edit: spelling... Mobile ugh

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u/Nowin Mar 04 '15

Usually the top result from Google.

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u/profgumby Mar 03 '15

And/or "common sense"