Not sure if everyone here will agree with me, but I think Elon Musk might just be the one person who could pull off a "fighting fake news" site and do it right. He just announced today that he's going to create a website to fight fake news and he might call it Pravda. I admit that I'm sometimes a little wary of these ideas (especially when we see Facebook ranking whether an article is true or not.) But I think Musk could do it right.
What do you think?
Musk said that this new site will let the public rate articles based on how truthful they are, and it will track journalists' and publications' credibility score. But he's also going to set something up to watch for bot voting and to guard against that.
Considering that he made the flame thrower he was talking about AND the boring company, I'm thinking this is going to happen.
What do you think? Would a site like this be best served on the blockchain? Would it compete with Steemit in any way? I think it would be great if it could work kind of like Steemit, in that people would be awarded cryptocurrency for participating.
Musk seems objective enough to be the right person to create something like this. He recently told a journalist on Twitter: "Thought you’d say that. Anytime anyone criticizes the media, the media shrieks “You’re just like Trump!” Why do you think he got elected in the first place? Because no ones believes you any more. You lost your credibility a long time ago."
You can visit his Twitter page if you want to vote on his idea.
What are your thoughts?
You can read my full story about this on Heavy.
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