KC
09-17-2012, 12:31 PM
A Podcast I listen to pretty regularly just devoted an episode to this new website called [/URL][U]Truth Market (http://TruthMarket). The idea is to put Market forces to work and give people incentives to start up campaigns based on the truth. If you are able to falsify a claim, you make money, or, if you can prove a claim to be accurate, your campaign wins money. In order to give an answer there is a fee, so people have an incentive to post only when they can point to verifiable data that shows a claim to be accurate.
There is no moderation of what kinds of claims are allowed to be posted, the only requirement is that the claim is falsifiable ("God does/does not exist," for example, wouldn't be allowed).
What do you guys think? My only worry is about the inherent biases of the moderators, however the founder on this podcast noted that there were claims on the website over both sides of the birther (Obama birth certificate) issue and neither has been shown to be false yet, so my feeling is that there is strong threshold for what counts as falsification.
There is no moderation of what kinds of claims are allowed to be posted, the only requirement is that the claim is falsifiable ("God does/does not exist," for example, wouldn't be allowed).
What do you guys think? My only worry is about the inherent biases of the moderators, however the founder on this podcast noted that there were claims on the website over both sides of the birther (Obama birth certificate) issue and neither has been shown to be false yet, so my feeling is that there is strong threshold for what counts as falsification.