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What about building a service, perhaps a web browser plugin, that overlays a trust-worthiness score + contextual information, over text (bonus for images) on th
by jchb 6y ago
What about building a service, perhaps a web browser plugin, that overlays a trust-worthiness score + contextual information, over text (bonus for images) on the web?
If a user posts "I recommend product X", the overlay would say "Caution: This user also recommended the product Y,Z in the last 48 hours. 34/34 of the users post in the last month are product recommendations. Sentiment score for users posts: 100% positive. The following internet accounts are likely controlled by the same individual or organization: ..."
Is it feasible? Does it already exist?
- jimbomorrison 6y agoSuper interesting. We're working on something similar within the news ecosystem. See https://onesub.io/chrome https://onesub.io/chrome for the extension (and https://onesub.io/mission https://onesub.io/mission for our wider mission)..
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- sjg007 6y agoSomewhat feasible. You really need distributed fact checking to scale up especially since you don’t have source ips. If you can do that you might have something if you can keep participation up.
- Pokepokalypse 6y agoand never forget: the black hats will never stop trying to game any system you try to come up with. At this point in time, I think it's pretty clear they have a strong upper-hand.
- noizejoy 6y agoDo source ips still help at all? These days it seems to be rather easy to visit a website from numerous different source ips.
- dang 6y agoI wish they still helped more, but they do still help.
- the__alchemist 6y agoI'm working on something like that.
- MichaelZuo 6y agoA distributed trust network is feasible given sufficient critical mass. I’m looking into the best way to bootstrap it.