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What about just keeping out stories that are patently false? If I did an image search for cars, I wouldn't want a boat in there. If I did a search for news, I

• joggery 10y ago
  Such stories would not go viral.
  • kmtrowbr 10y ago
    That's not true: false, viral stories were the very lifeblood of this election.
    • joggery 10y ago
      I'm sure that it so. However, for a story to spread it has to seem like it might be true to a significant fraction of the readers. So it can't be 'patently false'.
• kmtrowbr 10y ago
  I agree with you. I wouldn't completely remove them, but I would mark the ones from certain sources as having a questionable origin.
• muad 10y ago
  You just want to be spoon fed the "truth" without having to think about it.