A big, fat, juicy startup problem
We all like to talk about looking for problems, but in my experience they’re quite elusive. Here’s one that desperately needs solving. It (literally) keeps me up at night.
I have no idea how one might monetize it. That might not even be possible, That said, it deserves to be considered—perhaps as a not-for-profit.
Here’s a link to my notes on the topic: http://www.erickarjaluoto.com/blog/well-played-now-what/
Sounds like the problem that facebook and twitter faced with the recent "fact checking" for ads debate. Cool problem and very hard to solve in my view.
I see Facebook playing with this too. Users can flag posts as dubious. It appears that they’re then investigated and labelled—if they’re not credible. Given how much this is happening on Facebook, that seems like a good start.
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I'm working on this, but for the legal industry specifically - from Vancouver!
https://verity.legal/
I'm also slowly building a studio, specifically for global migration and immigration industry products.
https://www.emigro.io/
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I just heard someone that is planning to work on this, Tim Pool. Go to the last few minutes of his appearance on the JRE yesterday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs_mDpIkUOY
Thanks! I’ll check it out. :-)
They fight fake news: cyabra.com using ML
From the explainer video, that looks pretty cool.
We can't "solve" this as in "make it all go away" but we can try to move the needle.
Educate people about credibility of sources.
But things will become more challenging as history will be re-written:
https://nypost.com/2018/03/16/jfks-voice-delivers-speech-he-never-gave-day-of-assassination/
That’s what I’m proposing. I don’t think we build a plug-in and see misinformation magically disappear. However, if we prioritize this problem (over notions of growth, gamification, etc.) we might see small changes happen that add up to a better overall environment.
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