Taking requests to fact check online content - Lemmy.world
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Rules: - General rules: https://mastodon.world/about [https://mastodon.world/about] - Post a request to fact check a piece of content (provide link); OR - Post a comment to fact check a claim. Cite your sources; note that your sources need to be credible, reliable, and check-able by everyone so post a link; OR - Post or comment on a a meta thread to discuss the community, start it as META: followed by your title.
    • ???OP
      2•1 year ago

      Wonderful

  • ???OPEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    I am planning to create a bot that would allow people to tag posts or content they want to get fact checked. The idea is this:

    (1) you tag the soon-to-be fact-checker bot under a comment or main thread, something like @fact_check_this

    (2) the bot cross-posts on the community page on lemmy.world

    (3) for the future, given sufficient answers to the post (maybe we can control that with flairs or something), the bot can also nudge back the person who requested the fact checking

    (4) will share the code for the bot so that others can replicate this on their own instances, now thinking of forking this one: https://github.com/SleeplessOne1917/lemmy-bot