(2017-10-20) Udell Lets Use The Annotated Web To Coordinate The Struggle Against Fake News

Jon Udell: Let’s Use the Annotated Web to Coordinate the Struggle Against Fake News

This second Annotation enables a reader to view the claim through lenses provided by human curators, artificial intelligences, and — most powerfully — people and machines working together.

As we battle misinformation, we are creating many different systems that people and robots will use to check facts and classify statements. They all share a common pattern: reference to selections in web documents, and attachment of data to those selections. The annotated web embodies that pattern.