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Funny quote and all (no sarcasm intended) but I don't think it's fair to imply that, if future wars are bloodier than the past, it would be because we lowered barriers to communica…

I think when we consider what Facebook has taught us about anonymity vs real name policies we have to also remember that Facebook's feed disproportionately rewards sensationalist c…

"You thought that an information transfer protocol would solve social problems?" I recognize that this is just a comic strip, but this is a pretty reductionist point. The idea that…

> Nor is the “team of rivals” concept an innovation of the early 1860s, though Goodwin assures us it is. What an odd critique: Lincoln did this great thing, but he didn't invent it…

The idea of raising money to speed up high quality execution instead of raising money to add “months of runway" is a powerful re-framing IMO. One of those reframes that sounds so s…

A few tips from my RSI journey. I had developed a severe case ~8ish years ago. It took 1.5 years before I could code full-time again. Was a very painful period. It's still difficul…

I intend to move user contributed fact verifications to some sort of distributed ledger model to ensure transparency. Still in alpha though, so lots of work ahead.

The assumption behind this idea isn't that there are no accurate journalism outlets out there, it's that by "open sourcing" their fact checking, these outlets will better stand out…

You'll notice that on this platform every proven fact is annotated. As a result, proven statements stand out from unproven statements. This forces the writer to be upfront about wh…

I maybe misunderstanding your question, but this platform only accepts public primary sources as valid evidence. A media news story is never a primary source for proving the assert…

Thanks for the feedback, the second (accessibility) should be a quick fix. I definitely also want to address the first issue, the tricky part is coming up with a solution that also…

Just read through some of your repo, ravenstine. Very cool! I'll be sending you an email :)

Indeed, manual vetting is only for alpha. I should reiterate - the point of this type of open fact checking is you can always verify everything for yourself, so you don't need to t…

I truly believe that post-publication fact checking is a losing battle. If you take a sampling of redaction tweets by media outlets and compare their retweet counts to the retweet …

This is more a communication standard than a complicated tech solution. A communication standard for fact checks from public primary sources. Coding this wasn't actually that compl…

I actually got a friend who works at Tesla to email Musk about SourcedFact when he was tweeting about that haha, busy guy though ;)

Thanks :) Indeed they have unique urls, I'll see if I can make that clearer on the landing page: Net Neutrality - https://sourcedfact.com/a/net-neutrality-how-we-got-here Cell Phon…

You're 100% correct in that one can cite completely valid facts and still push an agenda by omitting other facts. I'm actually working on a "fact comment section" feature where any…

Indeed, currently all "verified" reviewers are manually vetted. Long term the goal is to have an open reputation score for every fact checker. I'm currently experimenting with diff…

The goal is to capture the fact checking process and enable any reader to review it for themselves. Certainly some publications currently have an excellent fact checking process, b…

I'm the exact same way, that's why I built this :)

Will investigate, thanks for letting me know!

That's the long term goal!