Episode 124 - Socials in the Fact Checking Business
Today’s discussion centers around the trend of the big social networks (Twitter and Facebook) to fact-check certain accounts. Can fact checking be fair, and is it consistent with open discussion? This episode also covers the activist culture and pressures faces by companies and workplaces today. Also, a new image processing ML algorithm which generates an image from a pixelated version has promise and pitfalls.
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Links and Articles
NY Times: Twitter Fact Checks Trump on Mail-In Ballots
NY Post: Why Social Media Censorship is Worse than Useless
Guardian: Social Media Isn’t Going far Enough to Stop Dangerous Speech
NY Time: Hydroxychloroquine Study Retracted
Twitter Thread (@realvijay): Internal and External Pressures on Tech Companies
National Pulse: Fact Checkers are Activists
- Media Bias Fact Check: National Pulse is Right/Propaganda/Conspiracy
View from the Porch Blog: The Perils of Social Media Fact Checking
Google Research: Face Depixelizer
Original Twitter Post by @tgbomze
See the Twitter Thread (including Obama)
Mashable: Train Arrival Restored in 4K
Related Episodes
Episode 103 with Dave Rubin on Alternative Social Networks
Episode 76 about Political Ambitions within Google
Episode 56 on Twitter Fact Checking and Generative Models for Faces
Episode 25 on the Great Twitter Purge of 2018
Episode 22 on P-Value Hacking and Disagreements in interpreting data
Episode 9 on Fixing Facebook with Competing Fact Checking Or Moderation Orgs
