Noise is unwanted stuff in the system. Junk interference, static.
You try to tell her what to do
And all she does is stare at you
Her stare is louder than your voice
Because truth doesn't make a noise
This is great stuff from the Atlantic website.
LazyTruth is a plug-in for Chrome that automatically scans email for
information that FactCheck.org and Politifact have deemed false. If
something doesn't check out, it'll provide a few words of correction and
a link to where you can find out more. You can then easily pass that
verified information on to the email's sender. Down the road Stempeck
plans to add more kinds of rumors to LazyTruth's filter -- urban myths,
hoaxes, false security threats, etc. -- but for now the tool is limited
to political tall tales.
Put simply," Stempeck explained over email (all of which checked
out), "LazyTruth is a bridge between low quality information (chain
emails) and high quality information (the research outlets that debunk
chain emails)." By putting the fact-checking right in your inbox with
the forwarded junk, LazyTruth reduces the friction (catch-all phrase for
time and effort) between you and a politely worded correction.
And that's probably where LazyTruth will see most of its use -- not
from the purveyors of the claptrap, but from their friends and
relatives, who, so sick of just sighing and clicking and deleting, might
now, fact-checked materials at hand, send a quick rebuttal. Stempeck
says they hope to later add ready-made replies -- designed, of course,
with myth-busting best practices in mind -- such that receivers do not
feel attacked or undermined, but informed and motivated to re-share
their newly learned facts (visual information such as photos can help
with that).
Falsehoods repeated over and over on the internet are memes. Fragments that act like genes, or maybe cancers would be a better word, to replicate themselves at the lowest levels through promulgation enablers that pass falsehoods. These false memes can be killed systemically with broad spectrum application of the Truth. Easy to do since the gene/meme type has an inherent self identifying pattern that uniquely distinguishes it where ever it may exist as specific bull-shit, static noise. It sees it it kills it and sends a targeted killing agent back to the originator.
Here is an example of a cancer meme: "Obama is a Muslim." For the alternate form go to the look up table that lists all the derogatory terms for Obama. Thousands of false memes float around the internet on emails and spread ideas that are not the truth for whatever purpose objective that motivated their creation. Many famous things have been said about the truth. I will just say that truth is better than a lie.
Google is search engine that has very cleaver search algorithms. Google could search out all the false memes on the internet and expose them by making them and where they exist visible. A false meme would be any that past the test of being untrue in fact. Do we have any institution today that is capable and willing to undertake the challenge of saying what is true and what is false other than institutional religion or consensus of what the majority thinks is true that may not be simply because the majority believes it.
The media used to have some standard of truth. They claimed they did. Can we go back to the time it was used and resurrect it? oh....Fair and Balanced....
Where is truth today as a check and balance to the system?
Is LazyTruth the new 4th Estate Media?
The more I look at this the more it looks more like the cancer research and cure model.
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