Slaying Fake News

by smiljoon 4/28/2020, 5:15 PMwith 5 comments

by scottishcowon 4/28/2020, 8:08 PM

PageRank is a popularity contest, not sure why you’d put so much trust into it as a reliable proxy for content quality. Lots of crap can be popular. Perhaps Google is doing a decent job eliminating crap from their search results (debatable), but that’s not an outcome of a naive application of PageRank.

by pfd1986on 4/28/2020, 7:34 PM

This event happening tomorrow might be of interest: https://www.usfca.edu/event/2020-04-29-1200/misinformation-a...

by adamjsorensenon 4/28/2020, 8:05 PM

Interesting - good read on the ramifications of fake news today. Love the idea of a "reputation score"