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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: 4, Insightful) by Mykl on Tuesday May 29 2018, @12:03AM (1 child)
Gotta say that I disagree with you on this one Azuma.
RDT does post a fair bit of 'filler', but he has some very witty and insightful things to say at times. He's a very effective caricature account (very occasionally showing us what the author really thinks about Trump) and sometimes offers us all a bit of insight into how MAGA voters might view topics differently to us.
I've come to view RDT as one of those quirky features of SoylentNews. He's certainly less offensive than some of our other quirks, like Ethanol-Fueled.
And I think that it could be perceived that you are operating in a similar fashion to modern left-wing fascists, who love to shut down anything they disagree with by labelling it 'hate speech' or whatever. The left should really think about being more open minded, the way they want the right to be.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday May 29 2018, @03:26AM
He's degenerating. He needs to up the signal-to-noise ratio, as he's starting to trip peoples' Poe alarms, and not in a good way. Satire has to be recognizable as satire for it to be effective.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...