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Can you detect fake headlines? (yourmist.streamlit.app)
submitted 3 years ago by rimu to c/politics
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[-] InAmberClad 3 points 3 years ago

I feel like growing up with the internet really teaches you to be skeptical and weed out the rubbish. Waiting to get results from the parents to see how they go.

[-] Dave 2 points 3 years ago

I might just be in the same boat as you, but I was surprised to get 20/20. Are there results for others? What proportion of the population get less than 50%?

[-] Fizz 2 points 3 years ago

I got 16/20 and it said better than 70%. I also feel like I didn't understand what the task was.

[-] Dave 2 points 3 years ago

I get that. I paused at one point to try to see if there were more instructions on the task. But basically I categorised by "implies certainty" and "trying to make me or a certain group angry" = false news, if it shows uncertainty or doesn't exaggerate to target emotions then most likely true.

Does it tell you which ones you got wrong?

[-] Fizz 3 points 3 years ago

Nah it doesnt say which ones I got wrong. But I can guess that it showed a "true" headline about the government and I was like "nah thats bullshit propaganda"

[-] Dave 2 points 3 years ago

Yeah I decided to ignore the content and just went with some things I know are signs of misinformation. It probably helped I've read articles about identifying it before.

[-] smeenz 2 points 3 years ago

No, it tells you what percentage of real news you classified correctly, what percentage of fake news you classified correctly, and has a score for veracity, which is the percentage overall that you put into the right category.

But it doesn't tell you which ones you missed

[-] sylverstream 2 points 3 years ago

14/20 here.

[-] deadbeef79000 2 points 3 years ago

Your ability to recognize real and fake news is great! You might be a bit skeptical when it comes to the news.

18/20

Neat. I do wish it showed the incorrect answers though.

Though my initial reaction was "they're all fake" because they're all designed to drive clicks, but some of them were really boring headlines so we're probably true.

[-] absGeekNZ 2 points 3 years ago

20/20

There were a couple I was iffy on...

[-] waterbogan@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago

Got 19/20, would love to know which one I got wrong, suspect it was the one about Hyatt removing small bottles

[-] Rangelus 2 points 3 years ago

Neat, thanks for posting. I missed a few but did ok in general.

[-] pumpsnabben@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 years ago

100% correctly pointed out the fake news on the MIST-16.

Is this test some kind of joke?

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