Open letter from the BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg
Is fact checking that difficult?<p>Imagine a forum that works in the following way:<p>1. You post similar to here.<p>2. Any post that has a <i>claim</i> is flagged. The poster, or another commenter has 24 hours (or some time period) to link to both a page and specific text (similar to how Google highlights search text when visiting a link) that supports the claim.<p>3. Once a claim is attached, posters can vote and downvote how well the source(s) support the claims (claims themselves are not voted&#x2F;downvoted).<p>4. Sites are whitelisted and blacklisted by looking at the total percentage in which claims are sited with sources that are downvoted vs. up + downvotes.<p>5. Posts that do not receive sources for claims are deleted.<p>I feel like the only reason this isn&#x27;t already done is because it was dramatically decrease the amount of posts and increase friction around posting. Posters would have to be careful to assert nothing in their post.