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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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 28 2018, @04:55PM (1 child)
Haha, I love the spoiler.
tbh I'm not very confident that another Politifact or Snopes is what will help long-term. Short-term yes. Maybe. Probably. I hope such a thing might encourage a wider interest in critical thinking. It would be best if critical thinking were democratized, and that can only happen when reading multiple news sources that produce in-depth reporting from different points of view.
I think Pravduh will really succeed if, instead of being merely a Politifact or Snopes with a different (or even oppositional) slant (oppositional is still needed), it provides a way to pit different accounts of the same story from different publications against each other. wswswswsws has its head-scratching moments like any other news source.
Not everybody has somebody like you willing to respond and provide a cogent rebuttal backed by evidence!
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday May 28 2018, @10:43PM
In the Rolling Stone interview, Musk says he is interested in a long term relationship (not sure if you are arguing he isn't).
Also, like other words, "incel" can be both a slur and a self-identified label [incels.me]. (Finally, let's take this opportunity to marvel at how ban-happy Reddit is [nytimes.com].)
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