“Misinformation” Is Condescending: Do Better, Elites

“Misinformation” Is Condescending: Do Better, Elites

The concept of “misinformation” is deeply condescending. As commonly used in our discourse, it says the following to and about the public: “You’re getting the wrong information, and it’s causing some bad behaviors. We’re going to get you better information, pat you on the head, and tuck you in.” It’s not nice to talk to and think about other adults that way, but many of my fellow elites often do, albeit a little more subtly than in the language …

Mailbag: Condescending to the wine moms

It’s been incredibly hard to do editorial planning for next week’s newsletters given the wild gyrations in trade policy.The good news is that while this is annoying and difficult to deal with from the standpoint of a small family newsletter publishing business, we’re not talking about eight-figure fixed investments that are supposed to pay off on a 10+ year time horizon.I’m trying to imagine what it must be like to contemplate investing in a man…

Fighting Misinformation: Web Scraping for Fake News Detection

Content from ScrapeHero Fake news has become a massive problem in our society. LLMs and social media have made it easy to create and spread fake news. However, you can leverage web scraping for fake news detection. How? Read on.  This article tells you how to use web scraping to create datasets for training AI/ML models using Python. […] The post Fighting Misinformation: Web Scraping for Fake News Detection appeared first on ScrapeHero.