Fact Checking
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Eric Ries: AI systems cannot reliably fact-check long documents
“Fact checking a long document is still well outside the capabilities of most AI systems because, you know, for the attention reasons, but if you're working in sections, it's really easy to be like, while I'm here,”
Boureau: Only Trusted Friends, Not Fact-Checkers, Can Change Minds Online
“The one kind of constituency who has a chance of Making a difference is their friends, people they already trust. So people who are already in their circles, people who have this relationship of which is usually pre-existing or it's because they're more aligne…”
Baxter: Community Notes provides missing context rather than traditional fact-checking
“One distinction that I would make, which may maybe can come off as nitpicky, but I think is important is community notes adds additional context. It's not fact checking necessarily. So So there are cases where the post could be true, but maybe it's just mislea…”
Baxter: Zero-click, specific in-feed context is essential for fact-checking
“So, so pulling the context up, you know, so that you have zero clicks that you need to make and keeping it specific is so important.”
Coleman: Community Notes had a 5-hour median response time during Israel-Hamas outbreak
“In the first few days of the conflict, the median time from a post going live to a note showing up was five hours, which is like crazy fast. Typical fact checking is like two to four. It's really common to see it take two to four days. These notes were showing…”
Sam Lessin: Centralized social network fact-checking is impossible at scale and dangerous
“The idea that a centralized platform, a centralized social network, Would be in the business of fact checking was always one of the most dangerous and worst ideas imaginable. And I was very unhappy when the company went in that direction over time because it's…”
Sacks: Fact-checking targeted politicians is biased soft censorship
“Yeah. I mean, call me old fashioned, but I'm very much in favor of free speech and I'm against censorship and you know, fact checking your politicians you don't like is, is a, is basically bias. It's soft censorship. I mean, they're being very selective in who…”