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Stephen Downes

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"It's clearly impossible for the web as a platform to objectively report that a stated fact is true or false," writes Ben Werdmuller. "This would require a central authority of truth - let's call it MiniTrue for short." And there's no easy way to do this in a distributed fashion. Werdmuller (like many others) suggests ways of seeing the 'conversation' around links or ideas, but that's what we have with Twitter, and it is entirely inadequate.

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