Reply to: Regulation to combat fake news, say MPs

[NotAllThere]

The Moderators of course!

Fake news.

[woohoo]

Future funding and the career aims of the author(s). At a guess.

If only.

[Zigenare]

We could just educate people to look at the sources of their news and evaluate for themselves.

I remember studying for a degree and a person tried to quote the Sun in a paper as evidence for their argument. He wasn't the only one not sure why quoting the Sun was not evidence of a truth or fact.

It had to be explained to him in slow words that peer reviewed evidence is better than the Sun. Though to be fair, I imagine these days I would even question academic papers, their sources and goals.

Future funding and the career aims of the author(s). At a guess.

[AtW]

Ah - the Re-Edukation Camps...

[woohoo]

We could just educate people to look at the sources of their news and evaluate for themselves.

I remember studying for a degree and a person tried to quote the Sun in a paper as evidence for their argument. He wasn't the only one not sure why quoting the Sun was not evidence of a truth or fact.

It had to be explained to him in slow words that peer reviewed evidence is better than the Sun. Though to be fair, I imagine these days I would even question academic papers, their sources and goals.

[Old Greg]

Reason and Evidence

That is 'how', not 'who'.

[filthy1980]

Who decides what is true and what is fake?

Reason and Evidence

[Zigenare]

Why can't you get toilet paper with politicians' faces printed on the sheets?

Winston Churchill is on a £5 note, use that - it probably skids worse than IZAL so be careful. It is washable though...

[xoggoth]

Why can't you get toilet paper with politicians' faces printed on the sheets?

[xoggoth]

In sorta related news, I'm amazed at how these guys managed to get Google search for "best toilet paper in the world" to show the Pakistani flag in all the top links on Google in 5 days. You should hire them atW!

Pulwama attack: Google searches 'hijacked' to link Pakistan flag to toilet paper - BBC News

Oh hang on, it was fake news according to Google:

Pakistan flag: No evidence our images showed Pakistan flag for toilet paper: Google

The world is certainly confooooosing.

[Old Greg]

This is a very slippery slope they are embarking on. Like the religious/race hatred legislation, it will soon be bent to serve other purposes for the simple reason it's bad law and it can.

What has got into this generation of politicians?

Who decides what is true and what is fake?

I'm agreeing with the nutjobs! Must be my libertarian left streak.

The cat is out of the bag with fake news and to seek to censor it is to establish some of the apparatus of a police state.

The best that society can do, and even this is a stretch, is to attempt to get transparency on funding. If you are going to pay for adverts or news, then there is a money trail. Even this is probably doomed to end up in some offshore trust rabbit hole.

So we need to recognise there is a problem, but not all problems should be solved.

[Zigenare]

Who decides what is true and what is fake?

The Moderators of course!

[Jog On]

Who decides what is true and what is fake?

[LondonManc]

Just delete half the posts in Brexit forum. Job done.

[WTFH]

This is a very slippery slope they are embarking on. Like the religious/race hatred legislation, it will soon be bent to serve other purposes for the simple reason it's bad law and it can.

What has got into this generation of politicians?

So, to avoid the slippery slope, do we just allow lies to be presented as facts?