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[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

cannot fact check itself let alone anything else. Why don't you do your own fact checking?

Why don't I render my own CSS? Firefox has the ability to pull alternative sources in the background and compare against my current page. What is wrong with that?

[–] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's... Challenging. Like the pet eating thing, there are many sources saying it's true and many saying it's false. Official sources can lie (Russia came to mind for no reason whatsoever), so we rely on sources we already trust, which is tricky and even subjective.

I imagine that "if in Fox then False" is a good start, but aside from that I can only think it getting extra sources, also a challenge without real time web crawling of the internet, were google and Microsoft are already light years ahead.

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But if Mozilla can, for example create a sources list and even charge for the ability to be a default on said sources list, wouldn't that be a double win? The problem with things being unreliable can be dealt with via language. Like big red text saying don't trust this blindly.

[–] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Pay to be the "truth" on a fact checking tool? Fox news is very interested.

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 1 points 2 months ago

Aren't Google and Bing and others paying to be featured in Firefox. What's the difference?