SourcedFact
Productivity
fact checking platform
SHOW HN2019
How HN took it
33 positive, 37 neutral or asking, 4 mixed, 31 critical, out of 105 comments about the project. Thread score +0.04.
Idea: 22 for, 26 againstDesign: 3 for, 2 againstExecution: 1 for, 3 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful approach to combat fake news and show sources
From 2 comments
Finally something viable to combat fake news
nahimn on HNThis is pretty awesome. Any time I open any article, the first thing I do is try to follow the trail of links/sources back to the primary sources and read that instead. If I…
thebeefytaco on HN
Objections
Fact checking is hard to scale; reputation and abuse concerns
From 2 comments
IMHO reputation is important to build into the base level for a platform like this. Allowing anon registrations and commenting will eventually lead to a lot of noise and abuse of…
ahnick on HNNice to see more work in this area. However as others have said a reputation system for participants is absolutely key. Any platform like this has to assume it is going to be…
teleclimber on HN
Journalism often reports unknown facts that cannot be fact checked
From 1 comment
So, your examples are all "reporting about court cases" and you use court documents as your citations for facts. Court cases are as good as we have for determining facts, I…
jellicle on HN
Anonymous sources not covered
From 1 comment
How does this handle anonymous sources? Not only do you have to account for what those sources say, but also, a reporter reporting what an anonymous source said can be 100%…
jasonlotito on HN
Requests
Decentralised platform
From 1 comment
We need this decentralised
rohan1024 on HN
Unique links per article
From 1 comment
Cool platform. One suggestion - create a unique url/route for each article. I wanted to send a particular article to a friend, but realized there's no way to provide a unique link.
Swquenzer on HN
Questions
How does it handle anonymous sources and changing source content
From 2 comments
How does this handle anonymous sources? Not only do you have to account for what those sources say, but also, a reporter reporting what an anonymous source said can be 100%…
jasonlotito on HNHow are you going to deal with underlying "sources" where the content disappears or is changed out from under the fact checkers?
johnm on HN
Alternatives named
Kialo, Hypothesis, ProCon.org
From 1 comment
YazIAm, you should check out https://www.kialo.com and https://web.hypothes.is/journalism/ and https://www.procon.org/
dsjoerg on HN
WikiClaim
From 1 comment
Hey everybody, I just want to point out that I'm working on a similar project to document evidence for and against claims: https://www.wikiclaim.org The tech is dumb (MediaWiki…
devinplatt on HN