Balaji is on to something here. If the Internet could create something as ambitious as Wikipedia, surely it should be possible to build a 'truth layer' for the web.
Open Standards > Editorial Control
P.S. FB & Twitter would throw infinite money at this if it worked.
It shouldn’t be tech companies per se getting into fact checking.
It should be open source technology.
Free, universally available code and data for epistemology.
Take a piece of text, parse it, extract assertions, compare to explicitly specified knowledge graphs and oracles.
