Introducing Watchbird, a community-based approach to misinformation (heh). Posters: Get paid to post online, starting at $0.20/post! Our top posters earn up to

Introducing Watchbird, a community-based approach to misinformation (heh). Posters: Get paid to post online, starting at $0.20/post! Our top posters earn up to $50/hour! Join now! Sponsors: We have over 50,000 active users ready to post whatever you need online, no questions asked! Similar services actually exist, but you know, one could always create a new one aimed at "fact checking" the fact checkers. I guess my point is, you can't solve this problem with even more crowd bullshit. It needs to be done at a fundamental level, preferably by governments in school. Afaik, there's still zero official classes/courses/lessons/whatever in most schools that would teach you to not trust everything you read and triple check everything yourself before believing anything. Plus, this is pretty prone to abuse. Individuals are inherently dangerous, and crowds even more so. Someone doesn't like person X, so they "fact check" his tweets. Others see this coming from a "reputable" poster and jump on the bandwagon. Seen it so many times it got old. Experimented with it myself. A post on Reddit (same content) that gets 8-12 fake upvotes in the first 30 minutes after being posted is infinitely more likely to start getting upvoted by hundreds of real users and get to the subreddit's hot front page than a post that got 0-3 upvotes, for example. I was interested in Reddit's voting system and learned some interesting stuff. They're really smart about it, you can't just have multiple accounts and some proxies/VPNs and go at it like in the good old days. Votes are going to be ignored unless you know what you're doing. Probably not news for anyone in the industry, but I found it interesting.