Re: Fact-checking and community notes on the Fediverse

 Can I also suggest that folks take a look at the existing ClaimReview
standard that search engines and other platforms ingest and was built with
orgs in the fact checker community like IFCN and the Duke Reporter’s Lab.


   - https://schema.org/ClaimReview
   - https://www.claimreviewproject.com/user-guide



On Jan 13, 2025 at 08:21:54, Emelia S. <emelia@brandedcode.com> wrote:

> This is already something on the list of things that the ActivityPub Trust
>  & Safety Taskforce is working on:
>
> [image: 4.png]
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> Idea: Annotations / Labeling of content · Issue #4 ·
> swicg/activitypub-trust-and-safety
> <https://github.com/swicg/activitypub-trust-and-safety/issues/4>
> github.com
> <https://github.com/swicg/activitypub-trust-and-safety/issues/4>
> <https://github.com/swicg/activitypub-trust-and-safety/issues/4>
>
> The Web Annotations model could work, but the discovery of annotations
> that exist is the hardest part, I've started solving that in
> https://github.com/ThisIsMissEm/annotations-service where I use the
> sha256 hash of the Object ID as the annotation collection ID, giving a very
> simple way to fetch all annotations for a given object.
>
> I do want to investigate what an Annotate activity would look like, but I
> suspect this would just be an announcement of sorts "hey, there's this web
> annotation over here for this target"
>
> Yours,
> Emelia
>
> On 13 Jan 2025, at 04:23, Evan Prodromou <evan@prodromou.name> wrote:
>
> We don't have an easy way for remote actors to annotate content on the
> Fediverse.
>
> The biggest use case for this is to have permissionless fact-checking or
> community notes. A fact-checking service could annotate a remote content
> object like a Note or a Video with additional fact-checking information,
> and compliant clients or servers could show the fact-checking information
> when showing the Note.
>
> I think there are some tricky parts to this structure, which I believe
> suggests that we should start working on it.
>
> Evan
>
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