Re: Seeking help for decentralised fake news voting platform
Fake news investigator is for sure good idea and it is required. Community voting is not the right way to determine if something is false or not.
Every form of voting is subject to manipulation. I am not sure how you think to prevent paid voting or using telegram bots farming. Plus, for example, by voting directly depend from where I am informed, did I'm read real or fake content and how it's affected my opinion.
Fake news and feedbacks It's all around us, simple check bounty section here on the forum, you will see many "paid" action, even claps on Medium.
It is better to gather a group of people who will research and post analytics about some news and explain if they found the news to be fake.
Every form of voting is subject to manipulation. I am not sure how you think to prevent paid voting or using telegram bots farming. Plus, for example, by voting directly depend from where I am informed, did I'm read real or fake content and how it's affected my opinion.
Fake news and feedbacks It's all around us, simple check bounty section here on the forum, you will see many "paid" action, even claps on Medium.
It is better to gather a group of people who will research and post analytics about some news and explain if they found the news to be fake.
Yes, voting can be manipulated.
On the long run, paid voting will not be feasible for most, when fact-checkers are introduced. The fact-checking community has to be wide, with people of different backgrounds, as it is inevitable that human possess bias as we've seen in the world. If fact checkers debunk it as a fake news in future, even if the community gets paid to vote for certain outcome, in this case, real, or fake news, it is what fact checkers conclude, which counts.
May I direct you to the group, and perhaps you can take a look at some document I've written so far, because it might answer your question. https://telegra.ph/Whitepaper-Realnot-03-25
The document/whitepaper is far from completion. But it might answer some doubts that you have at the moment
As for fact checkers, the curation platform to be created, will allow fact-checkers to have the platform to agree and disagree with one another. As you mentioned above, if votes can be bought, fact-checkers, might lose integrity in future one day. And I'm not sure if you're aware, but authorised 3rd-party fact-checkers for Facebook, is pretty monopolised across the world. In any case, the curation platform can allow fact-checkers/verifiers to provide research and evidence for articles, and will need to go through the approval of other fact-checkers as well to ensure minimised bias and integrity of the platform.
I'm not saying, current fact-checkers cannot be trusted, but I think there is a need for readers like us, to not develop any trust issues with fact-checkers in future as they become more important