I wonder what it would take to create a social network, analagous to Facebook, that would appeal to civilized, educated people who do not promote right-wing conspiracy theories and who demonstrate their passion for factuality along with their general adherence to the findings of "The Top Ten" fact-checking sites.
Quora Question: "Is Snopes Biased?"
One "litmus" might be that every subscriber "sign off" on a "credo" that would link at the top of this proposed social media's homepage.
This credo will conclude a statement that if they a user tells demonstrable lies or promotes right-wing conspiracy theories, they themselves would encourage other users to view them as untrustworthy liars.
"Trump's Top Russia Expert,Fiona Hill, Blasts Republicans For Their Damnably Destructive Conspiracy Theories"
Another litmus might be to require users to reference assertions of dubious factuality with links to one of "The Top Ten" fact-checking sites.
"The Top Ten Sites To Help Check Facts"
No system is perfect.
But would it not be sweet to participate in a social network that does not necessarily exclude conspiracists, innuendo-gossipers and whole-cloth liars BUT obliges them to identify themselves as such?
And, in the process, such a social network would make the kneejerk falsifiers to use honorable fact-checking sites?
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How did we get here?
"In Trump’s Washington, The Rogue Actors Are The Real Players — And The Experts Are Increasingly Irrelevant"
The Washington Post
The Washington Post
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