Elon Musk to take on the media? Can "Pravda" work?

[nanarchy]

Immersiveunreality said:

nanarchy said:

Rating systems for things like movies and games is purely subjective, so it kinda works (though plenty of those don't work well either).  Ratings for whether media is accurate and honest is not subjective, people suffer massively from confirmation bias when it comes to media so what you would get is not a rating system for their quality or accuracy, but one for their popularity where their views align which is exactly what you don't want.

Most people do not mind politics when reading articles heck most people dont want to care or know a thing about politics themselves, offcourse there will be people with a bias but really its a small percentage .

And movies and games can suffer from the same like you see with Star Wars.

confirmation bias is NOT really small, the majority of people suffer from it, most unknowingly. People generally read content they agree with. This is a well understood phenomenon, people that agree with something are generally not capable of objectively evaluating it. Yes only a small percentage might be intentionally screwing with the ratings, they are not the problem, the problem is the majority that will be unknowingly screwing with it due to confirmation bias.

have a read, not the best article, but it does explain some of the problems quite well. https://www.theguardian.com/media-network/media-network-blog/2014/may/13/internet-confirmation-bias

Last edited by nanarchy - on 03 June 2018