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Sadly this "platform to open source factchecking" is not itself open source, as the site's source code is not available and the user content license restricts c

• vortico 8y ago
  That's fine with me. The two concepts of "open-source" at hand are drastically different. The lack of ability to verify the website's source code doesn't prevent me in any way from seeing its content which helps me verify journalist claims. I hope the author is able to grow their service through marketing, licensing, and contracts with media agencies. Open-sourcing the service's software would be a distraction from that goal and would create fragmentation of its database when clones of the service are created. What's important for a service like this is open data, not necessarily an open-source stack.
  • nautilus12 8y ago
    Except we are talking about journalism which is prone to things like censorship, shadow banning and the like which would defeat the purpose of it being open. The source code would reveal if there were such a functionality.
    • YazIAm 8y ago
      I intend to move user contributed fact verifications to some sort of distributed ledger model to ensure transparency. Still in alpha though, so lots of work ahead.