There is a lot of deliberately deceitful information out there and I would like to build something to counter that, so does anyone have any thoughts on an app or system for helping find truth? I don't want to make a 'fact checker' site that is just some other arbitrary authority.
I could make a sort of url checker, where you toss in a url of a video or a blog or whatever and it spits out the most voted arguments for and against that resource's validity, and a user can 'vouch' with a comment for resources as well.
I could make a system just for tracking politicians and parties, who votes what on what bill in a nice easy to read and understand format.
Basically is there any sort of system anyone would want that's geared towards rooting out deception and finding truth?
You know those detective shows with all the pictures and the red string connecting them? That to me would be an interesting way to model data.
So you could have an article over something like pizza gate, and then at the bottom (in 'choose your own adventure' style) would be the main categories of related theories. Like "this is a rediculous, debunked conspiracy" or "Epstien was the supreme leader" or "This is being covered up". So basically you can get all sides of an issue and keep drilling down. For ranking, page views might be more useful than voting for determining the most popular theories, although maybe users could 'approve' of an entire logic chain, suggesting its what they believe to be the truth.
Basically its a web of theories that anyone can add more info to, grouped by the basic concepts. People can build out a whole tree and crossreference other's work for more proof. That way when you send someone a link like "bill gates is trying to murder us all, they can follow the logic back to its origin, or out to its possibilities.
I like this, I think the main idea is a system for tracking sources and being able to see cohesive narratives, maybe with an emphasis on the visual. Truth tends to converge so would def be useful.
I also like the idea of it being more of a natural process rather then a person catering every individual 'connection'.
You could have something that crawls on a lot of search engines and then analyzes for certain keywords. After that you use AI to pull out relevant info and maybe see if that info is different on two sites and then show the user both so they can compare?
Yep, or bots, brigading etc.
I'd just be happy with a factual news service for Canada.
Kenney said 'x'. Ford said 'Y'. No spin.
I don't like Rebels mainly video format, but that's my preference.
That's true, I don't know how to solve that. I could mitigate it by removing 'downvotes' so maybe the 'reject' argument might have 100 votes (due to being flooded) versus '10' for the 'vouch' argument, but then people could make up their own mind as to which argument is valid.