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Life & fun · June 3, 2020

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Verifact - A decentralised platform for verifying facts

Blockchain powered fact checking.

Verifact - A decentralised platform for verifying facts launched on June 3, 2020 with 10 votes, #1,071 of 4,317 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.

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In plain words

Verifact is a decentralized platform for fact verification launched in 2020. It allows users to verify claims and information through a distributed network rather than a centralized authority. The platform is designed for anyone seeking to check the accuracy of facts, making it useful for researchers, journalists, and general users who want reliable information verification without relying on a single source of truth.

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From the sources

Fountain is a decentralised protocol for finding consensus on truth. You can use Fountain to fact-check news, and to incentivise discovery, research and sharing of any knowledge. It is a tool to challenge misinformation. The human effort to build knowledge will be decentralised and accessible to all. The users of Fountain select an answer using an incentivised staking process described in the Whitepaper. The outcome of this process is accepted as a consensus of what the users of the network believe. Importantly, you shouldn't just blindly believe this as unquestionable. You should make up your own mind. This is why its so important that the evidence and reasoning is published as part of the…from verifact.io

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