Nip Fake News in the bud: Introducing PreFakes
[This post was inspired by Philip K Dick’s Pre-crime, & intended to be an April Fools’ Day joke]
Fake news is on the rise. Fabrication of facts or twisting of facts has become so commonplace now that arguably the most watched person in the world spews lies at the rate of about 10 per day!
Why?
1. It’s really, really easy to create fake news
Did I mention that it’s really easy to create fake news now!
2. People believe the first thing they see/read
Is the Modi government being transparent about the Rafale deal?
Yes! if you read Swarajyamag.com. No! if you read Scroll.in
Yes! if you read CNN. No! If you read Washington Post.
3. We are tired!
We at UnFound.news try hard to fight misinformation! But humans, you know, are all too human.
..and then we had a breakthrough
We thought why to bother with so much fighting misinformation, and set out to create an algorithm to PRE DETECT FAKE NEWS BEING PRODUCED!
This was a revelation. And extraordinary revelations require extraordinary science. So we threw away papers from NIPS, and started reading works by Uri Gellar and Nityananda instead.
Introducing PreFakes
PreFakes is a patent pending approach to detect fake news before it is EVEN WRITTEN. We have integrated it everywhere- Chrome, Popular email services, MS Office- basically anything you can use to write FAKE NEWS. The algorithm is embedded into leading word processors/CMS suites so as soon as it is being typed, the system will flag it and take it down.
Not yet convinced?
Proof of PreFakes
[PreFakes patent was filed today.]
