As news organizations scrambled to correct their coverage, for instance, traders at Manifold determined that the IDF probably hadn’t been responsible for whatever had happened on that particular night at the Gaza hospital.[*19] But the bigger concern I have,
As news organizations scrambled to correct their coverage, for instance, traders at Manifold determined that the IDF probably hadn’t been responsible for whatever had happened on that particular night at the Gaza hospital.[*19] But the bigger concern I have,
The news organizations may be guilty of not checking facts carefully enough.
Sharyl Attkisson • The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote
Today reporters can assume that behind-the-scenes dealings like the ones I’ve just described are to blame when their bosses are gung ho on a story line for days or weeks—then abruptly lose interest.
Sharyl Attkisson • The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote
Without this expertise, he said he thought that the company had built incentives into the app that encouraged users and media outlets to write tweets and headlines that appealed to sensationalism instead of accuracy.
Michael Barbaro • Jack Dorsey on Twitter’s Mistakes (Published 2020)
In one case, the text it generated falsely claimed that WIRED had reported that a specific police officer in California had committed a crime.
By Dhruv Mehrotra Tim Marchman • Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine
What we did not understand was that misinformation and disinformation was their business and that they had no intention of using us or anyone else to curb it. A low reliability score next to an article posted on one of the platforms from that website would be an impediment to exactly the sharing and enhanced engagement that the platforms wanted.