Quick background. Hypothes.is was founded by Dan Whaley: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danwhaley https://www.linkedin.com/in/danwhaley Dan built and sold an Int

Quick background. Hypothes.is was founded by Dan Whaley: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danwhaley https://www.linkedin.com/in/danwhaley Dan built and sold an Internet travel app in the 90s, and then became involved in climate work. He's been committed to it for many years. Hypothes.is was created in order to address the problem of disinformation on the Internet, especially related to climate change; e.g. the Wall Street Journal publishes an Op-Ed from Charles Koch denying that human activity is contributing to global warming, and an annotation channel run by climate scientists can dissect it point by point. I respect and admire that vision, and I think it's trying to get to one of the root causes of climate change denialism. (Obviously, Hypothes.is has many other great uses!)