<div dir="ltr">China Uses US Concern Over Fake News To Push For More Control Of The Internet | Techdirt <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161122/11501136116/china-uses-us-concern-over-fake-news-to-push-more-control-internet.shtml">https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161122/11501136116/china-uses-us-concern-over-fake-news-to-push-more-control-internet.shtml</a><div>This is some what predictable but still worrying</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 23 November 2016 at 17:50, Ronald Ojino via kictanet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><br></div>In my opinion, as long as you are a news delivery channel, you are expected to uphold high standards.<div>Locally, we make choices on whether to read gutter press or news from mainstream media houses.</div><div>However the delivery channel is expected to at least sift through the content shared using intelligent algorithms</div><div>in order to guard against misinformation.</div><div>We can’t change what people’s perceptions but we as techies can come up with more open and intelligent algorithms that </div><div>would at least minimize such issues.</div><div>R.O</div><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="h5"><div>On Nov 23, 2016, at 3:48 PM, Mose Karanja via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><wbr>> wrote:</div><br class="m_7908504822620007609Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div><div><div><div class="h5"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>Most honest line I have heard in a long time: </div><div><br></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><br></div><div>I don’t think there is an algorithm for that - yet. </div><div><br></div><div>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><br></div><div>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><br></div><div>-M<br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 23 Nov 2016, at 15:41, Sidney Ochieng <<a href="mailto:sidney.ochieng@gmail.com" target="_blank">sidney.ochieng@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_7908504822620007609Apple-interchange-newline"><div><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important">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><div>
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