Ny studie från Yale
Ny studie. Facebooks planerade frågor om folks förtroende för olika nyhetsmedier kan faktiskt vara ett verktyg mot spridande av ”fake news” etc. Men som enkäten idag är tänkt att vara utformad så finns det risk att effekten blir raka motsatsen.
”In a working paper released Tuesday, Rand and Pennycook write that a plan somewhat like Facebook’s could actually work surprisingly well. “Algorithmically disfavoring news sources with low crowdsourced trustworthiness ratings may — if implemented correctly — be quite effective in decreasing the amount of misinformation and disinformation online,” they write.
But note that big “if.” One of their main findings was that crowdsourced trustworthiness ratings are actually much less effective if they exclude the ratings from people who are unfamiliar with a given site. Which is what Facebook plans to do.”
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3118471
Ett bra referat finns hos NiemanLab:
Crowdsourcing trusted news sources can work — but not the way Facebook says it’ll do it
