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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: 5, Touché) by realDonaldTrump on Monday May 28 2018, @05:53PM (2 children)
You can Spam mod me at the point when you're a Moderator. At the point when a tweet that's 100% on topic is Spam. And at the point when you want to silence me because I don't make you laugh. Because you don't agree with me, with what I say and what I do. And because you have no better answer than to call me an asshole. Let me tell you, you'd make a great dictator. Because a big part of being a dictator is silencing folks. Like you're trying -- very successfully -- to silence me. You, or the other Spam modders who listen to you, put 2 Spam mods on me. And many, many, many other down mods. And this is a great time to do it. I proclaimed Memorial Day. And the Administrators are enjoying a beautiful holiday, beautiful weather and beautiful country. They promise to look at all the Spam mods -- big waste of their time -- I assume they're not going to do it today. And the Spam modders know that too. It's Censorship Day for them. Maybe they'll censor you too. And maybe you'll censor them.
According to you, for me to say the Center for American Progress and their ThinkProgress website look very corrupt, in a story -- a topic -- about "the credibility of media organizations and journalists" counts as Spam. I assume that's what you're saying on IRC. Because that's the tweet you replied to. Let me tell you, you're totally unfair. And you have nothing to say. You're a self-appointed censor. And maybe the Administrators gave you permission to take it to the next level, somebody's taking it to the next level. With all the Spam mods. Which are a way for the Administrators -- sometimes with help from their flunkies -- to keep people from tweeting. They call it an algorithm, they call it free expression. I call it censorship.
Believe me, I'd love to silence the Fake News media. And the Fake websites. ThinkProgress and many more. But I don't do it, you don't see me doing that. But if you were in my place, I think you would. And I think you'd shut down the (few) honest ones too. Because my little tweets are enough to make you totally blow your stack. Where you're writing nasty tweets in my journal. And in the stories. Your tweets have nothing to do with what I wrote or with the story. Just, you saw I wrote something and you're angry that I'm still writing. I'm a waste of space, according to you. Terrible way to talk about another person. Such a nasty woman!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 28 2018, @09:31PM
Mr. President, I am glad you are here setting the record straight with your tweets on this cyber. Haters are just going to hate. MAGA!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday May 29 2018, @03:33AM
Just improve the signal-to-noise ratio and get some new material. You have potential to be both funny and insightful, but you're squandering it. It's becoming impossible to tell how much of this is satire and how much you actually believe, and we have a prime example (Ethanol-Fueled) below who *started* as a troll and seems to have become consumed by his own "irony." Janrinok below more or less agrees, and he's someone whose opinion you *should* take seriously.
Sorry if I'm scaring you by being a "nasty woman," cupcake. I'm sure you're tough enough to handle it, aren't you? Well, aren't you? :D
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...