Re: Fact-checking and community notes on the Fediverse

This is very interesting! I wonder if we could syndicate these over 
ActivityPub.

Evan

On 2025-01-22 4:54 p.m., Ted Han wrote:
> 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:
>>
>> 4.png
>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>