Thread by @balajis

When you publish something on social media, you can quickly determine if it’s popular but not whether it’s true.

What are some mechanisms for the latter? Two come to mind:

1) number of independent confirmations by others
2) parse and compare to a knowledge graph

What else?

1) Number of independent confirmations by others: similar to crypto, you wait for others to independently confirm key facts prior to thinking of an article as “true”

2) Parse and compare to a knowledge graph: look up each assertion in a database of facts
thenextweb.com/podium/2019/06…

Note that by making the knowledge graph an explicit input you can say “this claim is true given these premises”.

Would be interesting to partition a knowledge graph into the constant stuff (eg value of pi) and the variable stuff which differs between different groups.