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> I do not plan on asking the police for suggestions.

If you want this to work be up front about your intentions, partiality, and biases; or else you are just contributing to that misinformation you spoke of and that’s all people will see (even if/when they agree with you).

> I agree, but data solutions are tricky because there's so much misinformation going on right now.

Limit your data to reliable sources.

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It's an enormous stretch to call delicate speech about my personal convictions "misinformation". Anyway, my only intent is to help people, not add to the conflict. It's just that I believe the police have dropped all pretense of sharing that goal of helping people.

Not at all, and that’s not how other people will see it. It all comes down to intention and objectivity.

Misinformation is the resultant product of people putting their personal opinions ahead of ethics and evidence regardless of what those opinions are.

I have no interest in sowing misinformation to support my beliefs, if that's what you're worried about. Otherwise I still don't really understand your point.

I don’t doubt that your goals are noble, but a lot (most) of misinformation is from well intentioned people positing their biases over objectivity. You will be contributing to misinformation if your goal is to induce a personal bias and you wish to suppress disclosure of your goals.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectivity_(science)

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