On 29/07/2023 11:24 am, Roger Clarke wrote:
Overlaid over that is the cluster of issues that underlie misinformation, such as selective quotation and incompleteness / acontextuality; and bias and discrimination arising from dominance of some value-sets over others.
And one of those is when those word sets were written. If you think about what is accessible, much of it is from copyright free things like writings before 1950 (allowing for the 72 year limit in some places). It was a totally different value set back then. I wonder if you could put a parameter that limits the source data to information published since 2000 to at least make it work in this millennium. And there are also cultural differences, whether the data source was fact checked or speculation, what information domain, too many variables/categories to contemplate. It's like those old phrase generators on magna steroids.
Language is so ambiguous, it's a wonder we can communicate anything with any clarity.
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