Realnot Platform

Description :

Realnot Platform is a project that allows community to vote, if a news article is real, or fake. The general public can share news articles, where the rest of the community can vote, if the news is a fake news, or a legit news article.

Realnot do not decide, or conclude, if a news article is a fake news, or not. Every result is only based on general consensus of the members in the voting channel of Realnot on Telegram. Users who have doubts over certain news, can take the article into the Realnot platform, and look at what other users think of the news. This can help the community to be aware if a news article is potentially fake or inaccurate, which will greatly reduce the impact of fear, uncertainty and doubt

Aside from this, Realnot hopes to develop further into a news curation platform in future, where active members can become fact-checkers.

Currently, myself, and Nasir is working on this project. With Nasir taking care of development, and my role as founder to continue improving the idea of this project to make it better and more helpful on the long run.

Overview :

At this moment, we have a MVP on Telegram, using voting channels and bots for article submission. The aim of this MVP is to see the viability of this idea, before we move onto further development, such as fact-checker sections, where fact checkers can comment and debunk fake/misinformed news.
During this period of uncertainty, we hope that the MVP can serve some local communities by allowing users to vote on news articles. Perhaps a user can show their friend or family that, they might have shared a fake news online, and Realnot community has voted that it's a fake news.

This can serve as a way to educate the public about fake news, with participation from users for news article submission and voting.

There is also a RNT token in place, to reward users for contributing to the platform. RNT of users will be used to determine if a specific user should be promoted to a fact-checker in future, as we need fact-checkers to be active in platform.

At this moment, both Nasir and myself are stumped with the community building. I've tried writing on medium, steemit, begging Telegram admins to let me post ads on their channels. We have a post in the announcement section, but it's not gaining traction. I think this might be a more appropriate section to post this.

Development timeline :

March 2020 -
- Realnot idea formed and put in writing (idea was around since 2018, but was expecting facebook to do something serious about it)
- RNT token (rewarding community for posting articles, and voting with general consensus)
- Forming of english and bahasa indonesia voting channels
- MVP completed

Future development :

- Fact-checker platform development.
- Mobile app development
- Blockchain integration for voting sessions, and voting details/results. (details can be used for studies in future if anyone is interested in studying the growth of fake news and reactions in different years)
- Promoting fact-checkers within community when necessary development is ready.
- Incentivising fact-checkers through non-disrupting ads revenue
- Engaging 3rd-party fact checkers to enter and contribute to the community.

Help needed :

Before we can go into future developments, it will be good to have a small community around and gauge the interest of the community before moving ahead.

- a respectable size of voters (with more individual voters, results can be more convincing)
- participation of users, from submitting posts for voting, to voting.
- community supporting more language for voting channels (currently only english and bahasa indonesia)
- website development - potentially building curator platform onto it as well, but more importantly, would love to have a beautiful site some time down the road.

Related links :

As we do not have a site yet, we're more active in telegram community group.

Our bot : @R_N_T_Bot

Users can submit articles via our telegram bot. Articles will go into relevant channel for voting.

Our community: https://t.me/Realnotcommunity

The community is very quiet now, having less than 10 active users. Please feel free to interact there.

Our voting channels : https://t.me/realnotenglish https://t.me/realnotindonesia

Please feel free to vote on articles that are open for voting. If there is nothing available, feel free to post articles using our bot, and articles will be there for voting.

If you need to know more about this project, feel free to interact at our community listed above, or even via this thread.

Thank you!