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posted by martyb on Monday May 28 2018, @02:30PM   Printer-friendly
from the takyon++ dept.

Elon Musk has floated the idea of creating Pravda, a web site that would allow users to rate/review the credibility of media organizations and journalists. Pravda Corp. was formed in Delaware and incorporated in California, according to an October 19, 2017 filing. Jared Birchall, a director at Musk's Boring Company, is President of Pravda Corp., and the addresses are identical:

Musk's idea quickly raised concerns that the reputation of news organizations and reporters could be determined by what could be an easy to manipulate online popular vote.

"Elon's next company: Rate My Professor but for Journalists. What a great idea that won't be gamed immediately in extremely predictable ways," Rene DiResta, who researches computation propaganda and is a policy lead at Data For Democracy, wrote on Twitter.

Siva Vaidhyanathan, a media studies professor at the University of Virginia, told CNN such a service might might make sense if it employed a careful methodology and was overseen by an independent journalism foundation.

"It's not a crackpot idea," he said. "The question is why should Elon Musk be the one running it and how trustworthy would it be if he ran it."

Musk has been criticized a lot lately.

Also at The Verge, New Statesman, and The Washington Post.


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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 28 2018, @04:22PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 28 2018, @04:22PM (#685187)

    Yeah, turn your backs. Because we already know they are full of shit and this is a redundant thing?

    Oh do not think so? A news org ran with a 2014 picture and pin it on Trump. Oooops. That was just yesterday and one in a *long* line of what they are doing.

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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday May 28 2018, @04:57PM

    by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Monday May 28 2018, @04:57PM (#685212) Homepage
    A news org? Several *major* news orgs, more like. Much as I dislike almost everything about Trump, I snigger "yup" under my breath every time I hear him land an anti-CNN barb. Even stopped clocks are right twice a day.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 28 2018, @04:59PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 28 2018, @04:59PM (#685214)

    What's this about?