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I know Dan Whaley, the author of the post, personally. This is not about promoting a company. This is about allowing people with knowledge to combat fake news.
by blueyes 10y ago
I know Dan Whaley, the author of the post, personally. This is not about promoting a company. This is about allowing people with knowledge to combat fake news. He has been working to make annotation a web standard for years. The fake news that he, in particular, is worried about is climate change denial. The pages of the WSJ and much of the Web are riddled with BS. This annotation enablement will allow, for example, climate scientists to set up channels that annotate the falsehoods and point to credible sources and facts.
- dwhly 10y agoThank you for saying so. The climate change effort using Hypothesis is located at http://climatefeedback.org/ http://climatefeedback.org/ Also, it may not be readily apparent, but Hypothesis is a non-profit, particularly because we think this technology if ever widely deployed and integrated should be done in a way that aligns with the interests of citizens over the long term.
- skywhopper 10y agoHow will these annotations be seen by anyone not already on board with the message? Maybe that's all that it's for? If not, how do you keep it from being overloaded by trolls?
- hakanito 10y agoIt would be interesting to have some kind of wikipedia system together with the annotation stuff. Community edited fact checking. "Wikifacts"