I think it would be better to provide a way to note that a claim is contested. It is just not clear in many cases what the facts are.
To add value to this, you could tell people what things the various parties think are facts. People might be interest to hear that the site says Elvis is still alive, the earth is flat, that evolution is a communist lie, that this commentator said in 2007 there was a ‘zero’ chance of a major housing downturn in our lifetime, that this site said that Trump had no chance to win in 2016, that (6 months ago) the Muller report is going to be coming out within a few days, etc.
Other useful information: Who owns, sponsors, pays for lots of advertisements etc on that site? Where would you position them ideologically? Do they admit errors and publish retractions?
Trump has a good chance to win the 2016 election.
Fact check: False! The NYT says Clinton has > 98% chance to win!
I would stress how the claim is contested and by whom. I’d love to see a credibility network distribute this problem across its users, but I know there will be unforeseen problems. For example dissenter.com currently has a comment on itself that ‘The sanitization of internet is a crime against humanity...’ I sincerely hope this is satire, because it’s well known that comment sections can be unsanitary.
This is not as simple as it looks.
I think it would be better to provide a way to note that a claim is contested. It is just not clear in many cases what the facts are.
To add value to this, you could tell people what things the various parties think are facts. People might be interest to hear that the site says Elvis is still alive, the earth is flat, that evolution is a communist lie,
that this commentator said in 2007 there was a ‘zero’ chance of a major housing downturn in our lifetime, that this site said that Trump had no chance to win in 2016, that (6 months ago) the Muller report is going to be coming out within a few days, etc.
Other useful information: Who owns, sponsors, pays for lots of advertisements etc on that site? Where would you position them ideologically? Do they admit errors and publish retractions?
Fact check: False! The NYT says Clinton has > 98% chance to win!
I would stress how the claim is contested and by whom. I’d love to see a credibility network distribute this problem across its users, but I know there will be unforeseen problems. For example dissenter.com currently has a comment on itself that ‘The sanitization of internet is a crime against humanity...’ I sincerely hope this is satire, because it’s well known that comment sections can be unsanitary.