Re: Fact-checking and community notes on the Fediverse

On Wed, 22 Jan 2025 at 21:20, Adam Sobieski <adamsobieski@hotmail.com>
wrote:

> Dominique Hazaël-Massieux,
> Benjamin Goering,
> All,
>

>I find it confusing how the `defacto` CG
<https://www.w3.org/groups/cg/defacto/> (mailing list cc'd) describes
itself here <https://www.w3.org/groups/cg/defacto/> and on LinkedIn as
`Decentralized Fact-checking & Provenance Working Group (DFCP)` and the
chairs (who are also founders of fact.technology) list 'W3C' and that
'Working Group' on their LinkedIns in a way that 1) makes it look like they
work for W3C and 2) makes it look like that community group is a W3C
Working Group, when it's not and 3) the use of 'Working Group' could imply
that CG is more legitimate than other CGs like https://credweb.org/

I've CC'ed Dominique Hazaël-Massieux, Community Development Lead, who might
> know whom to contact to access the system to correct that typo in the *Decentralized
> Fact-checking & Provenance Organization (DeFacto) Community Group*'s
> description, correcting from "Working Group" to "Community Group".
>
> I, for one, am looking forward to contributing to researching, developing,
> building, maintaining, managing, upgrading, and implementing robust
> amendments for a decentralized fact-checking system and stringent
> provenance standards for text-based literature and content with both the
> Credible Web CG and DeFacto CG.
>

This is interesting and needs sorting out so everyone knows where they are
and everything is in the open.

Adam, would it be possible to quote post on the mailing list please and not
top post. I know we do top posting all the time but in what might be a
large complex thread context is everything.

Many thanks,

Aaron

>
>
> Best regards,
> Adam
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Benjamin Goering <ben@bengo.co>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 22, 2025 2:00 PM
> *To:* Adam Sobieski <adamsobieski@hotmail.com>
> *Cc:* aaronngray@gmail.com <aaronngray@gmail.com>; Emelia S. <
> emelia@brandedcode.com>; Evan Prodromou <evan@prodromou.name>;
> public-swicg@w3c.org <public-swicg@w3c.org>; public-defacto@w3.org <
> public-defacto@w3.org>
> *Subject:* Re: Fact-checking and community notes on the Fediverse
>
> I find it confusing how the `defacto` CG
> <https://www.w3.org/groups/cg/defacto/> (mailing list cc'd) describes
> itself here <https://www.w3.org/groups/cg/defacto/> and on LinkedIn as
> `Decentralized Fact-checking & Provenance Working Group (DFCP)` and the
> chairs (who are also founders of fact.technology) list 'W3C' and that
> 'Working Group' on their LinkedIns in a way that 1) makes it look like they
> work for W3C and 2) makes it look like that community group is a W3C
> Working Group, when it's not and 3) the use of 'Working Group' could imply
> that CG is more legitimate than other CGs like https://credweb.org/
>
> Heads up, because at the very least it is confusing and, iirc, there may
> be some community guidelines about not representing a W3C CG as a WG, and
> not using the W3C logo in a way that is misleading.
>
>

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