Ask HN: How to curate the noisy internet?

Post by dhirajbajaj » Mon, Nov 20, 2017, 9:08 AM UTC

water_badger wrote: post #7

I think something that created a graph of assertions and logical dependencies between them would be really cool! Crowdsource assertions and assumptions (dependencies on other assertions) for each article. For example: "Russia hacked the DNC" or "The CIA has the ability to impersonate Russian hackers" would both be assertions and you could browse content that depended on either of those assertions or on logical childr…

I think you have shared something different or a use-case of solving fake news/agenda. This is another big problem that exist. I like to call it 'Photoshop news'. It would require a seperate platform or solution that works on it.

My query is about general content curation in all domains, so that people have access to latest, updated, clean content and can trustfully invest their time and money on it.

Post by ttoinou » Mon, Nov 20, 2017, 4:12 PM UTC

dhirajbajaj wrote: post #10

ttoinou wrote: post #2

One possible solution would be peer to peer curation where each peer curate its own content and where you can (this is a feature of the software / network) "follow" or "trust" others peers or organizations, and break this link when you find something weird about them or don't trust them anymore. It's obviously what we already do but there's no general framework to gather theses data in one place and create our own pe…

Peer to peer curation of content and sharing is a great idea. But, Isn't it something thats already done on facebook, twitter, except that it isn't shared with everyone else. for e.g.: Bill gates shares his best book on entrepreneurship on twitter, People following entrepreneurship should know about it like a recommendation and not just only followers of bill gates. Now there are many other successful VCs/advisors/en…

Yes I agree with both your points (it kinda already exists and no one works for free).

We need more people working in the information area e.g. fact checking data and news / curating (instead of copy pasting the same news everywhere). It's not easy to do of course and the biggest challenge is about how to create and structure the market for that.

One advantage of having a centralized platform like I spoked about would be to create "links of trusts" and be able to give a probability of trustworthiness for every source and news shared. For example if you trust Bill Gates, then you'll trust more people that are followed by Bill Gates. Hence the more closer to you sources are, the more you can trust them. For the example of Bill Gates also, if he follows millions of sources, his "trust score" should also decline. There must be a lot of mathematical graph properties that we can use to enhance the network like that (that could help, to follow your example, to link topics "entrepreneurship" together).

In fine that's the algorithms behind Google and Facebook I guess... All we need is an open standard to crawl and curate each of our own social graph

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