![]() ![]() QU1NLAN: I think self-regulated is a great word for this. GARCIA-NAVARRO: Self-regulated, I think, would be a better word. QU1NLAN: Well, I think that unregulated is not the word that I would necessarily use for it. GARCIA-NAVARRO: It sounds like a pretty unregulated community. And here's why you shouldn't believe everything that you see on the Internet. So generally, when we see fake news that we know is not factually correct, we'll go ahead and encourage our user base to go ahead and fact-check it themselves and also comment - say, well, here's why this news is fake, and here is the sources to back it up. We don't have resources that a team like Facebook or Twitter might have with tons and tons of paid fact-checkers. We are a team of about 50 moderators on a subreddit of 5.6 million people. How do you and your team of moderators deal with that? GARCIA-NAVARRO: We here at NPR have been covering, quote, unquote, "fake news" in its original sense - you know, disinformation, misleading information masked as journalism or facts - for years now. But we do see people changing their minds about lower-level, less divisive things, such like, do you support gender-inclusive restrooms, or do you support the Keystone XL pipeline? - things like that. But we also see some people who are just saying Trump 2020 or impeach him lock him up. QU1NLAN: We see a lot of really high-level, good faith discussion with people citing links, citing sources, talking about why they think the way they do. And though it has a slight leftward lean politically, there are users on Reddit from all over the political spectrum. He goes by the username Qu1nlan, and he told us that he sees mostly talk about impeachment these days. We're not calling him by his name because threats of physical harm and doxxing are so common on Reddit. Our next guest moderates the main political subreddit, r/politics. In Reddit's forums, called subreddits, users find cooking advice, book recommendations, thriving TV discussions, all sorts of topics - including politics. The discussion and news aggregation site Reddit sees some of the most web traffic in the United States, ranking higher than both Netflix and Instagram.
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