This is a topic that's of particular interest to me, I actually set up https://www.quod.us earlier this year as a place people can submit any type of misinformation they encounter on the web. I...
This is a topic that's of particular interest to me, I actually set up https://www.quod.us earlier this year as a place people can submit any type of misinformation they encounter on the web.
I got busy with other projects and it's kind of stagnant though.
There's a lot of people working in that space but I think they're mostly counting on grants and donations - unfortunately it doesn't seem like there's a lot of money to be made for fact-checking tools, so there's not a lot of incentive to create them. There's unfortunately always incentives to spread misinformation though. Even some of the bigger names like snopes seem to have trouble staying afloat with ad revenue (they needed a gofundme campaign recently to stay alive)
This is a topic that's of particular interest to me, I actually set up https://www.quod.us earlier this year as a place people can submit any type of misinformation they encounter on the web.
I got busy with other projects and it's kind of stagnant though.
There's a lot of people working in that space but I think they're mostly counting on grants and donations - unfortunately it doesn't seem like there's a lot of money to be made for fact-checking tools, so there's not a lot of incentive to create them. There's unfortunately always incentives to spread misinformation though. Even some of the bigger names like snopes seem to have trouble staying afloat with ad revenue (they needed a gofundme campaign recently to stay alive)