{"id":12649,"date":"2022-07-11T17:29:27","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T17:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialpanic.org\/?p=12649"},"modified":"2023-03-30T03:21:38","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T03:21:38","slug":"uk-lawmaker-proposes-requiring-social-media-companies-to-give-a-truth-score-to-all-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2022\/07\/11\/uk-lawmaker-proposes-requiring-social-media-companies-to-give-a-truth-score-to-all-users\/","title":{"rendered":"UK lawmaker proposes requiring social media companies to give a &#8220;truth score&#8221; to all users"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The proposal says that every user that produces online content, including \u201ccomments and reviews\u201d and who receives a certain number of online views, which is to be determined by the UK communications regulator, should have their content indexed and assigned a truth score.<\/p>\n<p>The person\u2019s speech is then to be \u201cdisplayed in a way which allows any user easily to reach an informed view of the likely factual accuracy of the content at the same time as they encounter it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/reclaimthenet.org\/uk-lawmaker-truth-scores\/\">UK lawmaker John Penrose proposes dystopian idea to give citizens a truth score on social media<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK lawmaker proposes requirement that social media companies evaluate and score the truthfulness of every statement made online, and issue a cumulative &#8220;truth&#8221; score for each individual. What could possibly go wrong?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10,36,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-censorship","category-civil-rights","category-politics","category-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}