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, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 28 2018, @05:47PM (4 children)
You gotta love this:
https://i.redd.it/af2wlx3w5g011.png [i.redd.it]
Bias? Nah...
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 28 2018, @08:34PM (3 children)
Parent comment is full of shit, just like his boy Trump.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/jul/26/donald-trump/amazon-no-tax-monopoly-donald-trump-said/ [politifact.com]
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/may/03/bernie-s/amazon-paid-0-federal-income-taxes-2017/ [politifact.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 28 2018, @08:52PM (2 children)
It's exactly as bad as that image shows.
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 28 2018, @09:06PM (1 child)
Amazon is a monopoly: False
Amazon pays no taxes: False
Amazon paid no federal taxes in 2017: True
Parent is a deplorable: True
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 29 2018, @12:14AM
I'd rather be a deplorable than an incel like parent!