Show HN: I made a platform for journalists to “open source” their fact checking
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Re: Show HN: I made a platform for journalists to “open source” their fact checking
#2Been experimenting with building tools to make fact checking more transparent and reusable for a few years now, this is the latest iteration of that project. Feedback appreciated!
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#3Very interesting and very well done!
Re: Show HN: I made a platform for journalists to “open source” their fact checking
#4Been experimenting with building tools to make fact checking more transparent and reusable for a few years now, this is the latest iteration of that project. Feedback appreciated!
Perhaps I am just being nitpicky, and I have no comments on the content or intent of the site (not my industry / area) but grey/blue text on the night sky blue background with white for emphasis really threw me whilst trying to read the text on the site. It may also have to do with Linux's crappy font rendering but I found it unreasonably hard to look at.
In my experience, there are few good colours that remain readable on text, and I personally find serif fonts visually displeasing in most cases, although there are some exceptions (https://www.nytimes.com/) and even then, the light grey on white background is pretty displeasing.
I wish you all the best in your endeavour!
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#5Neat tool and well done, but why would a journalist use this? In the day and age of 'fake news', it's pretty clear that journalists don't highly value checking facts.
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#6The hover state reminds me of the lyric annotation system Genius (https://genius.com/) has, which is a good thing.
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#7IMHO 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 the platform for misinformation. I think some sort of verification of a person's qualifications on particular subject areas and then allowing them to only "fact check" on those qualified areas is required here to have an effective platform that will scale well.
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#8Finally something viable to combat fake news
Re: Show HN: I made a platform for journalists to “open source” their fact checking
#9Been experimenting with building tools to make fact checking more transparent and reusable for a few years now, this is the latest iteration of that project. Feedback appreciated!
Perhaps I am just being nitpicky, and I have no comments on the content or intent of the site (not my industry / area) but grey/blue text on the night sky blue background with white for emphasis really threw me whilst trying to read the text on the site. It may also have to do with Linux's crappy font rendering but I found it unreasonably hard to look at. In my experience, there are few good colours that remain reada…
The goal is to enable journalists/bloggers to annotate their content with their fact checking. Allowing their readers to audit to and to contribute to the fact checking for themselves.
In other words, enabling journalists to "show their work".
Thanks for the feedback about the colours, I'll play around with it!
Re: Show HN: I made a platform for journalists to “open source” their fact checking
#10Finally something viable to combat fake news
Russian government backed trolls will use this system to spread fakes instead. Wikipedia has similar system and Russians abuse it a lot.