False, Misleading, Clickbait-y, and Satirical “News” Sources via http://ift.tt/2eYLlni
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This is a wildly bad solution to a real problem. Addressing the issue that people blindly trust news sources online that they shouldn’t by handing them a list of Bad Websites and telling them to blindly trust it is Not Helpful. At a minimum: present examples of why a given site is being flagged for a certain offense (the list has four categories) and allow readers to judge whether it has been assessed accurately.
Published November 16, 2016 / by Rob