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2019-10-03 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Clapper Says He's 'Fantasized' about a 'National Fact-Checker' for Social Media

[PJ] WASHINGTON -- Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper suggested the creation of a "national fact checker" who would monitor social media for false information.

"I've often fantasized about some sort of national fact-checker -- unassociated with the government, perhaps," said Clapper, who served in the Obama administration as the director of National Intelligence from 2010-2017, during the Washington Post's Cybersecurity Summit on Wednesday. "I don't know quite how you would constitute this that the fact-checker would be seen as uniformly, universally credible, but somebody like that, that could verify or refute what's being said out there particularly on social media."

Posted by DarthVader 2019-10-03 12:50|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 How.... "Ministry of Truth" like.

Posted by DarthVader 2019-10-03 12:51|| 2019-10-03 12:51|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm sure Snopes thinks it's up to the task.

Posted by Raj 2019-10-03 13:40|| 2019-10-03 13:40|| Front Page Top

#3 Jim Clapper 'fantasizing about facts.' Somehow I find that entirely believable.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-10-03 15:27|| 2019-10-03 15:27|| Front Page Top

#4 He's describing the kind of anomaly detection algorithms that China's now using in its "social credit" scheme.

Typical of our idiot political class to think that Truth is something that elites can devise a system to produce.

What a shitty generation we have leading us. The Shittiest Generation.

Posted by Lex 2019-10-03 16:21|| 2019-10-03 16:21|| Front Page Top

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