The war on fake news has been kicked into overdrive and the powers that ought not to be are now coming directly for those of us in the field of alternative independent media.
As France and Brazil announce plans to crack down on so called "fake news" Facebook has also joined in on the action and recently announced that they will be focusing more on promoting "friends and family" as opposed to "businesses and news".
In this video
Dan Dicks of Press For Truth breaks down the war on fake news for what it really is while also providing the best possible solution for social media users moving forward.
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Care must be taken to raise awareness about verification
Thanks for sharing
Upvoted! Spot on, Dan! Spot on!
I agree
Nice post!
I think that a better way to combat viral Fake News is to provide additional information in real-time to users so they have the full story, rather than biased and/or inaccurate (contradicted by additional facts). Boolean by GainingSteem.Com is doing just that. No censorship EVER, but instead, additional information so people have all relevant facts when consuming news.
https://steemit.com/crypto/@biddle/cryptocurrency-and-fake-news-booleancoin-leads-the-fight-against-fake-news
media is the biggest superpower today
Now we can compete! :) #steemit
Dtube here is all procedure is separate, don't be focus they fake, if occur that be illegal for further
I always feel odd seeing ETH used as a currency... it is much better as a platfrom. We have plenty of currencies (DOGE anyone) to use for tips!
We have Steem)
Yeah I'm with yura lol
there are lot of fake news for south kore ban for the big whale earn from small traders loses
I like steemit so far, and yes there is a war waged on the dissemination of certain ideas on other platforms, but the fact that money itself can essentially buy limited slots on the trending and hot columns of steemit means that whichever poster has the most voting power via their stack gets the views. This is a centralization of what information is displayed for the longest amount of time on a platform that was supposedly about decentralization, and because of the deflationary nature of the coin and the fact that self-voting, circular voting, and vote buying are not prevented or punished I don't see how it will change for now.
As the platform matures and the audience grows it's probable that we will indeed see a rise in viewership and use by those who finally get sick of the blatant status quo leaning corporations who operate the other social media sites, but it's not outside the realm of imagination to guess that if we become a serious problem they will start throwing money and technology to sway opinions here yet again.
And the risk always remains that those who are vocal about their opinions and are seen as a threat to the system have willingly given up their anonymity by using the faucet for a free account when using a phone number, and even if they didn't it will still be rather trivial for AI to figure out the flow of money required to buy some starter steemit, as it's already done for people who have tried to obfuscate purchases with Bitcoin.
In fact a public blockchain is probably a state's wet dream when it comes to knowing exactly what everyone's opinions are, as an immutable ledger of who dislikes what and why is what they were developing privately anyway. Blog safely out there, rainy roads are no joke.
i like your viewpoint and your writing style @charitybot. As a rank newbie here I see your take and you are right, there's always the thought that we are creating a nice little wrapped up pkg for any who may want to use that for evil. And,as we see time and time again, once big money comes in, and I mean BIG money, they figure out the loopholes and maybe they sponsor their own "influencer" with the latest greatest cryptocurrency
Sadly your upvote was wasted on me, I encourage you to read up on how new users' limited votes are most profitably spent on curating hot or trending posts that already have the largest rewards accumulated. Redeem rewards you earn as you get them, as the weight of your vote is calculated by current steam power. We're new but this site is also relatively new, and I hope the combined contributions of everyone who doesn't have a fat account can still help make it a worthwhile place to be.
You're a real person and not a bot?
Define "real".
fight the fake news? trump liked this
He needs to get on steemit lol
I noticed how Steemit flooded with russian anti-ukrainian propaganda. Whenever you see "rebel" or "DPR" - all of this fake news (russian propaganda) and it all prospering on this platform. Can we stop it somehow?
Probably not. At least the Russians aren't using bots to trend that stuff at least not that I have seen anyways.
Imagine how Rusians or any other ISIS can dominate us if we not fix it. We doomed.
Are the Russians worse than the Jews?
Media has contributed in spreading malicious lies. Dtube is not a copyright it stands on its own. Thanks for sharing this video it is very informative.
#steemsoccer1
Yep
Your console is smoking!!
Upvoted! - Agreed even in Australia the Malicious Attacks on Trump cant all be correct, unfounded to a large degree as an example..
I guess this is the drawback.
This is why I can't wait for appix to come out!
In America with the internet I am not to worried about it, I worry more about the people who buy into fake news and let that shit make them crazy.
I think, it is really a great idea, the issue of fake news has caused alot of terrible events in my country nigeria, when a misinformation leads you to make a judgement you cannot take back
You find out that chaos and anarchy will be the order of the day
I really pray and wish facebook and other social medias take this serious
Thanks for sharing,
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Informative post. Thanks for sharing ;)
Nothing wrong with private organizations or governments cracking down on fake news - and yes, there are still objective truths and standards for journalistic integrity. If citizens generally wish their governments to enact restrictions on such content (I'm not saying they do - haven't investigated it yet), and doing so would be a net benefit for the country, who are you to cry foul?
There is much fake news surrounding all nations but the truth is
people just believe what they wanna to believe. Recently it's really easy way to publish fake news on facebook. There are 55% fake news are publishing on facebook. We need to war. They did mislead man.
Thanks for this good post. upvoted @pressfortruth
No-one should take down ''Fake News'', because some of them are in truth trustworthy.
Everyone should be able to decide for themselves, which Informations they want to trust!
I think its Very important that developers work on that!
great post thank to share with us this news
There is much fake news encompassing all countries yet truly
individuals simply accept what they wanna to accept
Sometimes as incoherent as Trump!
I support human discernment, and it's our responsibility as a culture to decide what's fake news, not the ruling class, lol. I love the videos you do and always going to swing by and give a watch, and throw two cents in here or there :) You are doing a great job here.
We can't rely on media anymore for the truth. You have to make your own research now cause most media channels are political and bisase. The media need to stop intentionally victimising who they don't support and also stop covering up for people they support and present the truth to the public. It all seems immature now.
Media is greatest power
great info, I'm resteming it
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Its great that this war is on, because there was a time i didnt know what to believe anymore. Everybody just had something to say.
my past join steemit...plezzzz ..help.
we should first verify the source of news before believing it. Thanks for sharing this
great information
Let the block chain reign. This site is literally one of the solutions, the best option thus far, for this issue. Not censorable & crypto! $teem on baby!
very informative video .I really pray that all social medias take this serious. keep sharing great stuff :)
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Media is dependent of fake news and lies. They want to trending the news that the reason they make fake news to promote their channel.
I think the issue of fake news will never come to steemit as we have the community corrections all the time. News that is fake will never be entertained so it doesn't affect the way other social media did.
Rich steemians can upvote fake news. What if rich terrorists starts upvoting?
A shame of them for spreading fake news. What really they get from fake news just shame. Also resteemed.
The truth is that a lot of fake news are out there in many social media platform. Thanks for sharing/
Thats why i hate fake news, because sometimes people judged even he doesnt know the story.
Yes, the truth needs to be set free! Freedom, weed and life <3
very useful information....
Regards @pressfortruth
The media controls everything by obscurity. There enough people that won’t challenge them- so those who do are obsolete.
There is much fake news surrounding all nations but the truth is
people just believe what they wanna to believe
Trump can crack down on "fake news" any time he likes IMHO.
You nailed it!
thats amazing
You are very right, the whole "fake news" thing are the way that conservatives in the U.S. is censoring journalists.
I got ran off the road by a guy too busy to concentrate on his driving.
Understandably I can not stand it when people are so important that they need to record themselves while driving.
I hope you do not kill or maim anyone.