To find the information you need, you do not need to flip through mountains of books or look for knowledgeable people - just type a few words in the search bar of your browser. Thanks to the Internet, we have access to a potentially infinite amount of information, but! in which it is often difficult to understand and understand where the truth is, and where not quite.
Ideally, any information received should be questioned and checked for accuracy. First of all, you should always use common sense. Agree, it is unlikely that an adequate person will believe the phrase that sounded in the title of an article in the famous film "Radio Day", namely "Perverted penguins terrorize the inhabitants of Palestine."
Nevertheless, the news that the film about Alisa Selezneva was banned in Holland was taken seriously by many Internet users. At the same time, few people thought about whether the Dutch really planned to broadcast on their television a twenty-year-old film about Soviet pioneers and why this tape caused such a reaction from the authorities.
Of course, each of us has the right to our own opinion, and it may differ from the generally accepted one. But still, facts are facts - these are phenomena or events supported by reliable evidence. It is with the facts that you cannot argue - because they have already been established, verified and proven. And today it is vital for a person to learn to separate truth from lies.
The antonym for the word "fact" is a factoid, that is, an unreliable or false statement that is universally accepted as true. Unverified information was once published in the media, it received a lively response and quickly spread.
Let's take a look at an example:
Factoid: Chameleons change color for camouflage
Fact: before, scientists really thought so, but then they found out that the color of a chameleon's skin changes depending on the ambient temperature, light level, mood, and ongoing physiological processes. Everything turned out to be much more complicated than expected.
The only weapon against such unreliable statements is checking the information for virality. Inspections of this kind should have common principles - independence, accuracy and impartiality. An incorrect inference or error can lead to fatal consequences.
Who, besides journalists, uses systems to check information for virality? These are copywriters, marketers, SMM specialists and everyone who is involved in the preparation of content. After all, the consequences of misrepresenting the facts can literally affect the life, health and financial well-being of people - this has happened more than once.
And by the way, search engines are seriously concerned about this issue: Yandex and Google give preference to high-quality content - using special algorithms, they evaluate the expertise, authority and reliability of information.
Let's look at the example again:
Factoid: 5G towers cause coronavirus.
In the spring and summer of 2020, messages with such a message spread through social networks with cosmic speed. Belgian therapist Chris Van Kerkhoven gave an interview to a local newspaper where he linked the outbreak in China to the installation of 5G towers. This interview was deleted after some time, but conspiracy theorists have already become interested in it. As a result, in addition to panic, acts of vandalism were also recorded - in the UK, attackers deliberately destroyed cell towers.
As we can see, sometimes unverified facts really hurt.
Fake news often comes from the neglect of information verification systems. But often they are distributed purposefully - for the sake of traffic, trolling and hype. This is done by the mass media, masquerading as serious publications, as well as pranksters, trolls.
You need to check everything - even well-known facts. Because this directly affects the quality of content: gross violations can lead to an avalanche of negative feedback from users, sanctions from search engines, difficulties with promotion on social networks, and even prosecution for fake news.
And if we have colossal volumes of constantly generated, outdated and updated data at the same time. Today, there are fact-checking systems, the results of which do not exceed 65% for texts, and 61% for authors. This means that some of the fake news will not be recognized at all, and some of the true news will be marked as fake.
To increase the accuracy of the checked content, the Exorde system was created. Exorde is built around a core platform that provides unbiased credibility scores for information (and virality-related analytics) based on the community, AI modules, and a token-based economy.
This platform is decentralized, open and transparent. This is where the participants will work together to index the entire network, extract its unstructured information, relationships, similarities, trends, and any type of pattern in the information circulating throughout the internet, regardless of
platforms or media.
Exorde as a knowledge network can use the unstructured content of the Internet and perform a first-of-its-kind analysis of the virality of information circulating throughout the network.
Also, the Exorde Labs team is proud to announce the launch of Testnet. We are now at the point where Testnet is open to anyone who wants to download the open source modules and participate! This phase includes more detailed web panels showing blocks of data being mined on the Exorde network, the number of free and employed workers, protocol details with additional statistics, URLs, and more. A little later, a new version will appear: Testnet v0.2, with improved staking mechanisms, rewards and dynamic protocol settings. Constant improvements, the most advanced web scraping modules! The end of summer is September.
Written by Bimevox
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