<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div>In my opinion, as long as you are a news delivery channel, you are expected to uphold high standards.<div class="">Locally, we make choices on whether to read gutter press or news from mainstream media houses.</div><div class="">However the delivery channel is expected to at least sift through the content shared using intelligent algorithms</div><div class="">in order to guard against misinformation.</div><div class="">We can’t change what people’s perceptions but we as techies can come up with more open and intelligent algorithms that </div><div class="">would at least minimize such issues.</div><div class="">R.O</div><div class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 23, 2016, at 3:48 PM, Mose Karanja via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" class="">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Most honest line I have heard in a long time: </div><div class=""><br class=""></div>"On fake news I think it's pretty sanctimonious of us to assume people are idiots and don't know that they are reading fake news.”<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I don’t think there is an algorithm for that - yet. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Feedly as an aggregator is great. I was toying with the idea of ‘peeping’ into other people’s feeds so that if you have aggregated news on tech, hate speech, Kenya… and I am a Burkinabe who would want to know what is happening in Kenya on hate speech, I can ‘peep’ into your feed and get authentic verified news from the source. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Most RSS feeds don’t have this feature and I think it is what ‘follow’ / ‘like’ concepts on most Social Media platforms work on. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-M<br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 23 Nov 2016, at 15:41, Sidney Ochieng <<a href="mailto:sidney.ochieng@gmail.com" class="">sidney.ochieng@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">On fake news I think it's pretty sanctimonious of us to assume people are idiots and don't know that they are reading fake news. </span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">
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