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Crypto has this concept of “oracles”, which are sources of truth used to resolve prediction markets.

For example, a price feed, or feed of election results.

It strikes me that you could generalize the concept to create oracle-audited social networks.
The basic idea is that if you truly wanted someone to fact check everything in a feed, you can set up user-configurable oracles.

These would use ML + human review to give a star rating to each post or rate as unconfirmed.

Most useful for financial decision makers.
More on crypto oracles here: blockchainhub.net/blockchain-ora…
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