Philosopher’s NYT op ed explains philosophy of testimony and how it can mitigate fake news and other misinformation.

Philosopher Regina Rini reviews the social epistemology of testimony with everyday examples (e.g., social gatherings with friends in person and online). The Rini points out existing epistemic reliability scores (already used internally by companies like Facebook) can be made public so as to improve our information-sharing incentives. A bit like Twitter’s verification checkmarks online profiles could have a color-coded symbol next to their name. The color would indicate the degree to which users share information that they know to be false (or know to be uncorroborated). That way, our online sharing practices impact our public reputation and, likewise, we can easily see the epistemic reputation of someone who shares new, shocking, or upsetting information with us.

/r/philosophy Thread Link - nytimes.com