Have had a few pet projects in the past around RSS aggregation/news reading, which could fact-check the sources/article while reading, also determining the biases from the grammar and linguistic patterns used by the journalist for the article. Same could be applied to comments.
Wonder if such a feature had value for a reader app for Lemmy? I feel a definitive score is toxic. But, if it were to simply display the variables to look out for it can help make a objective decision yourself?
Another application of this, is also pulling just the objective statements in the articles for faster reading.
Edit: More explained in this comment: https://lemmy.world/comment/1524807
A nifty thing, but it’s not really addressing the actual problem. The problem with disinformation isn’t that it merely exists, rather that it’s shoved at such a volume by groups/people who build pseudo-credibility.
Rather than targeting individual instances of disinformation, sources should be dealt with. I think it’d be far easier and more efficient if disseminators were identified and popped a warning.
Yeah that’s a great thought, focusing on the author. Like in that long thread with another user, they also identified entertaining “punditry” instead may be more useful.