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“Everyone wants to play”. Craig Silverman. Meet Timothy. Timothy, Meet the Crowd.
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“Everyone wants to play” • Craig Silverman
“Saying the news cycle moves at an ever-increasing pace doesn’t even qualify as a cliché anymore. But this felt like a new record. Reporting in one minute, writing in one hour, a whole career undone in one day. Reading the comments piling up on the original post was a surreal experience, as one reader after another checked in with evidence, with links. It was journalism as hive mind. ‘Everyone wants to play now,’ someone wrote after posting a link.” -- Nancy Nall
"The largest increase in human expressability ...""Group action just got easier." --Clay Shirkey
“Fact checking ... is becoming one of the great American pastimes of the Internet age.”
Began in Opposition to Press “We can fact-check your ass.” -- Ken Layne (2001)
Lessons • Desire to participate -- be specific, be flexible • Desire to criticize -- be ready, be responsive • Overall desire for fact-checking
What’s Next • Open fact-checking systems that embrace pro-am model • Continued erosion of traditional, closed model • Continued weaponization of facts and fact checking
Corrections • 1548 -- “I shall never admit for any affection towards countree or Kyn, to be so partial, as wil wittingly either bolster the falsehood or bery the truthe.” • 1690 -- “...nothing shall be entered, but what we have reason to believe is true... and when there appears any material mistake in anything that is collected, it shall be corrected in the next.” -- Benjamin Harris • 1972 -- New York Times
Missing • Ways to push out corrections • Strategies for encouraging people to report errors (credit, points, awards...) • Process for tracking errors to improve prevention, accountability
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