In today's Internet driven world, we are continually bombarded with biased and disjointed information. It's often difficult to separate fact from fiction...and just as hard to trust our sources. But what if this problem was solved, and we could suddenly depend on the Internet to deliver mostly accurate and relevant information? What would this knowledge look like? What kinds of decisions would we make? What kinds of conversations would we have?
2012 promises to see substantial improvements in the world’s collective ability to fact check the Internet. Sites are popping up (or are currently in development) that will help keep media journalists accountable, hold politicians to their word, conduct peer review, debunk myths and fact check virtually any information found on the Internet. As great as some of these tools are sure be, we believe they are still not enough. Access to validated information is good a good start, but access to fact based knowledge is our real goal.
dBunkr goes beyond a peer-reviewed fact checking model. dBunkr allows virtually any information on the Web to be transformed and re-contextualized into valuable and searche-able “threads of knowledge.” Not only can one easily connect to facts using dBunkr, one can also understand deep contextual relationships underlying each fact. In other words, dBunkr users have the power to map and understand the many thoughts that relate facts together. This commitment to linking information together is carried all the way down until a connection with empirical evidence (or bedrock data) can be made. When this is achieved, a thread of knowledge, (and the separate pieces of information contained within it), can be most objectively evaluated.
While we have been privately and quietly building this effort since early 2011, we are now at a stage in our development when we'd like to take our revolutionary model to the next level.
If you are interested in learning more, joining our team, or supporting us, let us know.
In today's Internet driven world, we are continually bombarded with biased and disjointed information. It's often difficult to separate fact from fiction...and just as hard to trust our sources. But what if this problem was solved, and we could suddenly depend on the Internet to deliver mostly accurate and relevant information? What would this knowledge look like? What kinds of decisions would we make? What kinds of conversations would we have?
2012 promises to see substantial improvements in the world’s collective ability to fact check the Internet. Sites are popping up (or are currently in development) that will help keep media journalists accountable, hold politicians to their word, conduct peer review, debunk myths and fact check virtually any information found on the Internet. As great as some of these tools are sure be, we believe they are still not enough. Access to validated information is good a good start, but access to fact based knowledge is our real goal.
dBunkr goes beyond a peer-reviewed fact checking model. dBunkr allows virtually any information on the Web to be transformed and re-contextualized into valuable and searche-able “threads of knowledge.” Not only can one easily connect to facts using dBunkr, one can also understand deep contextual relationships underlying each fact. In other words, dBunkr users have the power to map and understand the many thoughts that relate facts together. This commitment to linking information together is carried all the way down until a connection with empirical evidence (or bedrock data) can be made. When this is achieved, a thread of knowledge, (and the separate pieces of information contained within it), can be most objectively evaluated.