RE: Why MIT's Orwellian "Largest-Ever Study of Fake News" Is Nonsense.

[wizardave]

hah! Perfect example of the truth you're telling @ura-soul...
I recently saw a pic of Soros with the snopes CEO, so thought I might share it.

• duckduckgo.com didn't have anything
• google had this pic from this web site as the first image...
  

Well played Google. Orwell would be proud of you...

Comments

[ura-soul]

To be fair, the men in those pictures don't really look much like the guy from Snopes to me ;)

[wizardave]

That is true.

• So would it be possible to trace the pics back to the originator?
  Do we have that technology?
  • That type of info could create a database with whitelisted and blacklisted image creators.
  • Or something similar to Steemit's reputation score. ? .
    • Just thinking out loud...

I do think "they" play a game where they put a truly fake pic or story out here, get people to share it (through bots and hmm can't remember what they call the government social network commentors.), then debunk it...

• "Proving" you can trust the FakeNews site.
  • kind of a problem - reaction - solution situation...

[ura-soul]

the best I could do is use a reverse image search to find the earliest currently logged version of the image on the web, but that is not 100% reliable and it requires the full image before the graphics were laid on top of it.
the NSA could probably do it with their massive facility and total surveillance!

i'm sure all kinds of mind games are created like that, yes - it's like firing 'chaff' from the back of a jet to scramble radar beams and make the resulting signals useless..