In my opinion, as long as you are a news delivery channel, you are expected to uphold high standards.

Locally, we make choices on whether to read gutter press or news from mainstream media houses.

However the delivery channel is expected to at least sift through the content shared using intelligent algorithms

in order to guard against misinformation.

We can’t change what people’s perceptions but we as techies can come up with more open and intelligent algorithms that 

would at least minimize such issues.

R.O

On Nov 23, 2016, at 3:48 PM, Mose Karanja via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

Most honest line I have heard in a long time: 

"On fake news I think it's pretty sanctimonious of us to assume people are idiots and don't know that they are reading fake news.”

I don’t think there is an algorithm for that - yet. 

Feedly as an aggregator is great. I was toying with the idea of ‘peeping’ into other people’s feeds so that if you have aggregated news on tech, hate speech, Kenya… and I am a Burkinabe who would want to know what is happening in Kenya on hate speech, I can ‘peep’ into your feed and get authentic verified news from the source. 

Most RSS feeds don’t have this feature and I think it is what ‘follow’ / ‘like’ concepts on most Social Media platforms work on. 

-M

On 23 Nov 2016, at 15:41, Sidney Ochieng <sidney.ochieng@gmail.com> wrote:

On fake news I think it's pretty sanctimonious of us to assume people are idiots and don't know that they are reading fake news. 

www.moseskaranja.com

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