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5. How hard would it be...

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Sat Nov 19, 2016, 08:31 PM

Nov 2016

Wikipedia has things like 'needs reference' when an article makes an unsupported statement.

They need to have a 'news registry' and if something looks like it's pretending to be news, you alert that it 'looks' like news, and then they can just check it against the lists of fake news sites out there and put a link under the article to a site that says whether they are fake news and why. Obviously, the fake news database will grow on a daily basis, but fake news sites fall by the wayside too.

They need to leave the stories the way the are, but add disclaimers to the links. How hard can that be?

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