1/ 🧵Having a system that can categorize and recognize what is real, what is false, and what is misleading is an aspirational goal that will never be achieved. Looking at the statement alone does not provide us with any reliable way to know what is true. Everything on an information cycle is subject to that kind of uncertainty.
2/ 🧵 Historians and chroniclers say it can take a long time—perhaps even a century—to gather, compare, and examine all the facts surrounding an event. Events typically fade from memory before we can determine how true they are. Confirming any report that is less than one day old is difficult.
What chance do we have of stopping reports, falsehoods, deceit, misinformation, hoaxes, fakes, superstitious beliefs, and disinformation from sweeping a society?
3/ 🧵Suppose there is a system where the origin of all data is permanently embedded in the components. (Blockchain could be utilized.) Accordingly, there is always an originating source for every assertion. There would be a subject, verb, object, and assertion at the end of every statement: One who affirms its veracity. The declaration includes the chain of provenance and the sequence of resources if an insurance claim is priced or transmitted. People can prefer specific sources due to this interconnected web of resources.
4/ 🧵If we wanted to be strict, we could say that no points more than four hops distant from a starting resource would be considered. The author asserts that they discovered a news reporter's statement that values resource A. Also, it's possible that each of those hops needs an exceptionally high-reliability score. Anything with a history of travel via sources we have determined to be unreliable could be disregarded. Trust fund scores can be defined in various ways; more than one method may exist. Also, we have to have faith in this accounting procedure and agent. Similar to how we sign up for a newspaper, there may be many agencies or filters that assess trust. How quickly and enthusiastically you rectify mistakes is another indicator of your reliability. Resources that are good at handling changes and faults tend to acquire more trust than those that aren't. Thus, this scoring procedure becomes another layer, an additional resource that must be trusted.
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