The EU Commission's Horizon 2020 Initiative is funding a new project designed to eliminate fake news from the internet by implementing a social credit system that warns users about fake content by giving them a trust score. The Eunomia Project is being rolled out on Mastodon and Matrix (twitter and discord clones respectively) as a research project before being applied to the internet as a whole.
>EUNOMIA uses a positive-first approach, where good content and behavior accrue credit. As users share and consume social media content, their acts are recorded anonymously, yet socially transparently. In a verifiable way, the origin and path of each bit of content is recorded, and information cascade paths are assessed for their association with known trusted sources, which allows determining their level of trust.
>Once trust is attached to paths, the users and the content along them are similarly assigned levels of trustworthiness. Citizen participation is actively encouraged in content verification by allowing implicit voting on content trustworthiness and influencing the reputation of the content generators and sharers.
>Eunomia offers the means to any social media user to find out WHO generated any POST, HOW credible that creator and content is and IF IT CHANGED from origin to destination. EUNOMIA creates a social media companion that makes this information visible on new forms of decentralized media, such as Diaspora or Mastodon.
How trustworthy are your posts, Jow Forums? Do they have a trust score of 100% or only 5%?
