Much disinformation is predictable, as when anti-vaxers or foreign adversaries spread lies about Covid-19 vaccines. The DRC could mentally protect people from such lies by anticipating them, framing them as BS, gathering them into a cess pool, and emphasizing their Distrusted essence. Anticipatory framing might become the first effective way of innoculating humans against toxic memes.
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These emailed newsletters would prove an efficient way for people to keep up on the Disinformation Resistance and they would summarize the principal findings.
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Social media reek with fake videos, usually propagandizing for some questionable cause. A recent example came to me via email with the subject, "Yikes...corona virus origin...IMG_1678.mov". The clip stars somebody purportedly named David E. Martin, Ph.D., promoting himself as a National Intelligence Analyst. His pitch, basically, is that the CDC is behind the Covid-19 pandemic. He makes a blatant misstatement early on that nothing …
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Let's have a place to build up a list of trolls, shills, bullies and liars. How about a Rogues Gallery, a list of Distrusted persons or organs? We could challenge their digital products, even if they are not members of our community, and then with two yellow cards, they'd be red-carded out, viewed as distrusted for all future products. In this way, our community …
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Allow members to create and share curated filters, such as by experts in specific areas about Trusted and Distrusted articles in those areas. Enable these either for free or by subscriptions that reward the curators.
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Value every contribution a member makes, especially for endorsements, challenges and contributions to the knowledge bank. Then report the most active contributors to honor them and inspire others. Consider a leader board for most recently active and for lifetime contributions.
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Many people might want to see short tutorial videos on how to contribute knowledge and trustworthiness assessments. The site offers many new and unfamiliar types of objects and actions.
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We should be able to share items with social media and mark them clearly with trustworthiness assessments, as well as appropriate warnings about consuming and propagating lies.
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Liars will only stop if somebody makes them pay. Create a group of active disinfo resisters that will penalize the worst offenders. Organize boycotts and other campaigns to embarrass, shame and punish promoters of toxic information.
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When a member wants to inform followers on social media that they should distrust an item or claim, a share function should do that easily and well. The Distrusted assessment should get attention effectively on each platform where it appears.
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Most Word users actually use about 12 common commands. Yes, we use hundreds. However, a Radical Simplicity version of the website could atract an order of magnitude more users. Even in a single version, many useful features could be in menus and the site could be fun and useable by beginners.
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Conjectures, nuggets, and jewels all represent claims as natural language assertions. If these were expressed in a formal language such as logic or Mathematica, the KB could power machine reasoning. This would open new spaces for exploiting trust assessments by applications that understood and reason with formalized knowledge.
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