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<div class="sw_message"><div> Congrats to Dave (no the other one)</div><div>But slashdot has just been its own flavour of fake news since the 1990s.</div><div>With a very narrow, specific, and privileged bias too.</div><div><br></div><div>4chan (or even reddit) are more likely sources for 'real' news.</div><div><br></div><div>Any of the peer based sources will be highly populist, and short sighted with respect to timespan/history.</div><div>This is both the advantage an drawback of Wikipedia vs Britannica</div><div>(US popular emphasis vs control by a cabal of old white British men).</div><div><br></div><div>There is a dangerous game going on right now with the 'common carrier' type status</div><div>that social media has enjoyed.</div><div>Once censorship and editorial bias starts (and it always starts) it runs away fast.</div><div><br></div><div>But perhaps I digress.</div><div>My real source of real news is usenet.</div><div> </div><div id=""></div><blockquote>--- Original message --- <br><b>Subject:</b> [u-u] DCB on /. <br><b>From:</b> David Gilbert <uu@dclg.ca> <br><b>To:</b> <u-u@unixunanimous.org> <br><b>Date:</b> Sunday, 05/07/2020 1:51 PM<br><br>David Collier-Brown on Slashdot...<br><br><br><a target="_blank" href="https://tech.slashdot.org/story/20/07/05/1730223/is-slashdot-the-answer-to-facebooks-fake-news-problem">https://tech.slashdot.org/story/20/07/05/1730223/is-slashdot-the-answer-to-facebooks-fake-news-problem</a><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>u-u mailing list<br>u-u@unixunanimous.org<br><a target="_blank" href="https://unixunanimous.org/mailman/listinfo/u-u">https://unixunan<wbr>imous.org/mailman/listinfo/u-u</a><br></blockquote><br></div>
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