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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: 3, Informative) by Arik on Monday May 28 2018, @05:16PM (4 children)
Trolls are not, typically, nazis, but they will do whatever they think will get a rise out of the audience. If it's nazism that causes the audience to lose their shit, the trolls will play nazis. If a troll finds an audience of nazis, he'll pretend to be Jewish instead. Or perhaps Neil deGrasse Tyson. You get the idea.
The internet is infested with trolls. There may be some nazis too, but they're statistical noise next to the trolls.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday May 28 2018, @05:41PM (3 children)
A good writing exercise, one practiced by debate teams even, is to defend a point in which you don't believe. To become your enemy makes you more acute in defending your point. Unfortunately, the more you stare into the abyss, the more the abyss stares back at you.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Arik on Monday May 28 2018, @06:32PM
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 28 2018, @06:54PM
EF just being stupid again.
(Score: 3, Funny) by coolgopher on Tuesday May 29 2018, @01:06AM
So... you're saying that all these assholes on the internet are because of goatse?!