B.S. Detector: After It Hits the Fan
Roughly a week ago, the creators of the B.S. Detector app -- a cheeky Google Chrome plug-in that attempts to identify suspicious information floating in Facebook's content streams -- received some tough criticism after their program wrongly labeled legitimate news sites like ShadowProof, Naked Capitalism, Truthdig and Truthout as unreliable. Seeing promise in the plug-in, major news organizations like CBS amplified B.S. Detector's harsh and undeserved judgments while the appl
