First off, I have some follow-up news on an earlier story. The Australian fact checking group I mentioned being paid by Meta has been suspended for providing a series of “false” fact checks that turned out to be actually true. As I pointed out, many of the so-called fact checkers don’t have any experience in the field they are apparently providing the check for. This will be particularly true in any politically charged area.
– I hadn’t heard of What Three Words until recently. It is a website that will translate a map co-ordinate to a set of three words. These three words can be used to communicate a location that is then fed back into the website to provide the co-ordinates for, say, an emergency response. The location is a 3m-by-3m grid. So, if I wanted to send someone to the Fun Cafe in Bangkok, I could click on the location and tell them Sharpen Runs Cascade. They…
