Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

It's easy to say we should fact-check the internet (or at least that part of it pirporting to be news and information). Actually doing it is a lot harder. As Michael Caulfield says, fact-checking is boring unrewarding work. It's better shared with others. Enter annotation, as provided by (say) hypothes.is - now through the mechanism of annotation we can share our fact-checking efforts. For example, here's an annotated news article. Will this technology work where so many previous efforts at annotation have failed?

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Stephen Downes Stephen Downes, Casselman, Canada
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Last Updated: Mar 29, 2024 10:39 a.m.

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