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Eddy Cue: Apple 'Trying to Do Some Things' to Combat the Spread of Fake News

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Apple is actively working on ways to ensure its content delivery services are robust enough to stand up to the challenge of "fake news", according to Apple's senior vice president of software and services, Eddy Cue.

Cue made the comments during a wide-ranging interview at the Code Media conference on Monday evening. Echoing comments recently made by CEO Tim Cook, Cue said that technology companies have a special responsibility to members of the public, most of whom now depend upon personal devices to receive their news. With that in mind, Cue said that while there was no simple way to counter the spread of fake news, the company is working on methods to reduce its dissemination.

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"We want Apple News to be available to everyone, but we want to vet and make sure that the news providers are legitimate. We're very concerned about all of the news items and the clickbait from that standpoint, and that's driving a lot of the news coverage. We're trying to do some things in Apple News, we're learning from that and we need to share that together as an industry and improve it."
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Fake news has been a trending topic since last year's U.S. Presidential election, with companies like Facebook making loud statements about the action they have taken to bring the quality of articles to users' attention.

Last week, Tim Cook admitted that fake news is "one of today's chief problems" and that "we have to give the consumer tools" to deal with the challenge. Companies like Apple should "filter part of it" before it reaches the public, he said, but in a way that avoids "losing the great openness of the internet".

Note: Due to the political nature of the discussion regarding this topic, the discussion thread is located in our Politics, Religion, Social Issues forum. All forum members and site visitors are welcome to read and follow the thread, but posting is limited to forum members with at least 100 posts.

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Personally, I don't reference Apple news. But at least they are trying to address and rectify the issue. If they want to be relevant as a trusted platform, this is definitely should be addressed to clean up any misconceptions that are being reported.

Cue is right though. There is no real definitive solution to hault all fabricated news, but tools can be used to filter it the best they can.
 
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I've never had trouble discerning fake news.
Besides, the media has never been trustworthy.
Todays media is nearly 100% oped anway.
Trust your gut...not the TV.
If you want to know the truth.... read the Bible and find a good Prophet.
It takes very little effort or intelligence to be a scoffer.
 
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Oh Im sure they'll only allow CNN and MSNBC. Not that any other networks are better but they'll love the flag banning and water gun replacing
 
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Urban Joe said:
I've never had trouble discerning fake news.
Besides, the media has never been trustworthy.
Todays media is nearly 100% oped anway.
Trust your gut...not the TV.
If you want to know the truth.... read the Bible and find a good Prophet.
It takes very little effort or intelligence to be a scoffer.
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My opinion is that this is a dangerous opinion. "My gut tells me it's true, so it's true." Very good. If truth were in the gut, the world would be flat, stars would be pinholes in a black velvet curtain, and you doctor would be treating your pneumonia with leeches.

As to the Bible, more people have been killed in the name of a religion than for any other reason.

I strongly suggest to the Mods that this thread be moved to the Politics forum.
 
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Urban Joe said:
I've never had trouble discerning fake news.
Besides, the media has never been trustworthy.
Todays media is nearly 100% oped anway.
Trust your gut...not the TV.
If you want to know the truth.... read the Bible and find a good Prophet.
It takes very little effort or intelligence to be a scoffer.
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There are other people who want to believe everything. This is not new though. Elvis was alive, Apollo 11 never flew to the moon, JFK was killed by two killers and so on. It is just that in todays world with social media such things get multiplied and if you read fake facts on multiple sites something may get out of control and stick in some peoples mind.

Oh and are you sarcastic about the bible?
 
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garirry said:
Here's how you deal with fake news:

Use your goddamn common sense, and don't believe something the moment you see it. Search around, use your brain to determine whether the news would make sense, and then decide for yourself.

If you can't do that then don't ever go on a news website again.
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Agreed. Trouble is - 'common sense' means a totally different thing to different people. For 8 years, a work mate of mine thought it was 'common sense' that Obama was about to semd out the national guard to go house to house to confiscate weapons.
 
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Urban Joe said:
I've never had trouble discerning fake news.
Besides, the media has never been trustworthy.
Todays media is nearly 100% oped anway.
Trust your gut...not the TV.
If you want to know the truth.... read the Bible and find a good Prophet.
It takes very little effort or intelligence to be a scoffer.
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Unsure how trusting 'your gut' is going to help make sense of complex issues that require expertise & in-depth knowledge (something brought by experts in a field, which professional journalism can connect us with).

The ones to avoid are lobbyists.
 
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Like leaving the News app available to a select few countries I'm guessing.

The solution to fake news is to make people less gullible and more critical. Tall order, I know.
 
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orbital~debris said:
No need.
BBC News can be added as a source in Apple News.
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Amazing that some posters seem not to know that Apple news is simply an aggregator not a creator. Is that more conformational bias?
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robeddie said:
Agreed. Trouble is - 'common sense' means a totally different thing to different people. For 8 years, a work mate of mine thought it was 'common sense' that Obama was about to semd out the national guard to go house to house to confiscate weapons.
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Exactly Jade Helm reaction was "common sense" reaction by many.
 
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