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  • Verification Rating System (VRS)

    Just the facts.
  • Founder: grant

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  • Who We Need
    We need a body of scientists, political scholars, media experts, and, above all, information scientists and game theory experts to keep the evaluation system accurate. We need infrastructure experts - coders, builders - to create a secure, super-fast system, and designers to make it work on as many kinds of news outlets as possible. Ethical PR professionals would be necessary to get the system accepted, keep the system above reproach and maintain public awareness.
  • How to join
    Tell us: How are you equipped to ensure we can believe what we read?
  • Mission
    A strictly non-partisan body of scientists, political scholars and veteran journalists evaluate news stories and assign a simple accuracy rating. Think of an aggregator like Rotten Tomatoes or Reddit, only with all the evaluation done by experts, like Snopes or Media Matters. Any story carried by any news outlet can display a VRS rating - those that don't, may have something to hide. (And their stories will be evaluated mercilessly on our own outlets regardless.)
  • What we can accomplish
    • ...establish clear lines of information exchange, encourage informed decision-making, erase a political culture built on "selective hearing" (I only hear the facts I want to be true). With VRS ratings, we can create a shared language between liberals, conservatives, progressives and libertarians. Consensus is only possible when parties can agree on fundamental facts. This establishes what those fundamental facts are.
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  • Discuss this superstructure

    • Problems to solve:

      1. How do you go about finding a "strictly non-partisan panel"? Rating system is my first thought, which is subject to ideological griefing and we\'re right back to where we started.

      Collaboration

      You share some ideals and possible technical hurdles with Trustnet (struct #145). Would you care to share data or otherwise collaborate on the implementation of our respective structures? 

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  • Other superstructures we are collaborating with

    • Rook Parliament, http://superstructgame.net/SuperstructView/128

      Rooks need this capacity to avoid discussions descending to the level of shrill screeching seen in "trial by twitter"

      US ReDS Central Command

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