News Accuracy Platform Boolean's ICO Has Begun! Get Booleancoins Now!
The Booleancoin ICO is officially live. Booleancoin, the coin that drives Boolean, The AI-Human Hybrid News Accuracy Platform built on top of the Ethereum Blockchain helps combat Fake News by helping detect what news is true and what is false. Fake news became a topic of wide public concern during the 2016 U.S. election season. Booleancoin’s platform acts as a guiding light within the public eye, giving users information on what is most accurate, based on the prevailing sentiment of its users and the way their votes land, in concert with the power of Machine Learning. We offer this ICO as we aim to help develop the Ethereum Blockchain Ecosystem further with this Decentralized App (Dapp).
Boolean’s Proprietary Prioritization Model uses the VTS Rating that we ascribe to News Content found on the web by our Crawlers, as well as provided by our Users. The VTS Rating Scale takes into account Virality, Topic, And Severity, gives it a score relative to other content, and prioritizes based on that and user input. For a Full Description of our Prioritization Model and for the full whitepaper, please visit Booleancoin.Com. Our Prioritization Model will allow us to categorize and prioritize those issues that seem to be most at risk of disinformation circulation surrounding them.
Mobile Devices that have Boolean Installed Will Auto Scan Articles/Content Opened By Users And Inform Them Of Any Recent Accuracy Issues Detected By The System. Mobile Notifications will aid the stopping of Fake News Before It Spreads. Our goal is to provide truth to our users and, therefore, in instances of questions which have FACTUAL answers (an example being who won an election or which team won a basketball game), those will be answered more heavily by Oracles, since they can do a lookup from official, trusted stores of data to provide users with accurate information. In regards to more subjective information without a black and white answer, insight is given to try and point out biases, fallacies in content, inconsistencies, contradictions, and other data points. This information will be informed through public discussion, input from our Oracles, and updated regularly based on newly emerging information.
A Product Of GainingSteem.Com, This Decentralized App On The Ethereum Blockchain's Constantly Learning Web Crawlers will gather information across all corners of the web and interpret and connect the information they find, will allow fake news to be flagged and the information disseminated among subscribers before it has effects as profound as causing alternative legislation to be passed, elections to be lost or won based on falsities, and many other use cases. Our Prioritization Model Identifies, Categorizes, And Ranks Priority And Risk Of Any Given News Story/Online Content Piece. In a world where data is the real most valuable commodity, our world, Booleancoin's platform "Boolean' will add value across Web 3.0 and will help keep us safe from the New Propaganda Machine.
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great post, biddle as usual!
Thank you! :)
Of course!
This is an interesting concept I've actually pondered myself.
How will they be able to bring accountability back to reporting news (IF there ever really was to begin with I suppose)???
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Exactly; a system like this, using industry standard technology and being furthered with the help of the public, as well as decentralized and open to audit, will allow ratings to be given with explanations for any issues content may have. Welcome to Steemit and I'll absolutely take a look at your introductory post. Thanks for taking the time to learn about Boolean and Booleancoin! :)
Dude that's actually a legit reason for a blockchain to exist I think it's awesome.
I appreciate the way that the SteemIt community tries to weed out the real from the fraud but sometimes I think all of these "spam" bots end up hurting newcomers by working more like censorship than spam fighting, which is the intention but people (online marketers and entrepreneurs like referral marketers) still need to make a living regardless of the platform that they market or promote, be it Amazon or USI Tech which NOW has a blockchain and a coin.
USI Tech as a company has been around trading on the Forex for the last ten years before they started trading cryptos and now have their own coin.
The trick is weeding the fake from the real which is sensitive because what some consider marketing some consider spam.
What some consider "fake" sometimes others consider to be their effort to promote their online business whatever it may be.
I realize that this is tackling news, but I am also relating it to the fact that SteemIt is touted and promoted as censorship resistant yet, there are bots created to consider legit referral links to be spam and that is unfair to the person who is Steeming to promote an Amazon store say.
Now how does this relate?
How do you incorporate into a blockchain the necessary function of weeding out what is real from what is fake when that may simply be based on opinion?
I have been on SteemIt for quite some time and watching it grow and have seen some of the censorship wars take place right here on SteemIt which is (SUPPOSEDLY) touted as "censorship proof or resistant" which it is clearly NOT if you can have members of the community censor other members of the community simply because they differ in opinion or investment, marketing, business, strategy or choices.
So when I think about the little guy who can't even share a reference link without some bot coming on here and slapping his post down so that his post is never seen or makes any money which creates a DISincentive to post, curating and deciding what is NEWS or news WORTHY on a blockchain without the OPINION of humans getting involved is a TRICKY sticky feat EVEN WITH artificial intelligence helping because it begs the question...
If you use AI in this blockchain then, who decides the "intelligence" input into the AI software to decide what is real and what is fake?
Is the "intelligence" in the AI based on OPINION or is there some kind of OBJECTIVE way to program this into the software algorithm?
And I'm glad you took the time to respond as well @biddle thank you for engaging.
Hi @somealaskaguy , thanks for reaching out! So, Boolean will allow input from Users in regard to helping rate/discern Accuracy of content in a Stochastic way, constantly self-correcting and gaining additional accuracy as additional information is brought into light concerning validity.
That said, Boolean's goal is NEVER to censor, but rather to rate and inform. If, for example, something was deemed misleading or inaccurate (including misinformation by omission) to some degree/percentage, we would provide those metrics that led to that conclusion using our Boolean Prioritization Model (VTS Rating System) with additional qualitative reasoning from contributing users on the platform.
This qualitative and quantitative information is meant to make content consumers AWARE, but NEVER to censor. We would never hide/censor content, but we would bring into light any issues with validity to better equip a user who otherwise might be victim to Fake News. It is a rating system and a system that links news together to provide a lateral view of content across the web, rather than the isolated view that you would get if you went to just one site.
Our plugins/mobile notifications and scripting services, which can be used on a site to automate the administration of content will not have functionality to hide content from users by default, except as part of specific Enterprise engagements where the client has that as a requirement and we provide custom code to them. In those cases, this information will be publicly available on the Ethereum Blockchain. :)
I'm really liking it so far I really hope this can be pulled off even more than with the success we've seen right here on SteemIt. I'm watching very closely.
After Hextracoin, i stopped buying coin at ICO, I may give this a try.
In the spirit of #Hug-Chellenge
@autofreak is here to make a mark.
We hope you consider it! Thanks for taking the time to learn more about it! :)
Thank you for sharing this post
You're very welcome! :) Thanks for taking the time to learn about Booleancoin!
Booleancoin.com provide us the real news .thanks for this.
You're very welcome! :) Thank you for the support! :)
So I will still get the news but if it is suspect, Boolean will give me a rating as to the possibility or probability of it being a biased or downright fake story? Correct?
Exactly; that's our goal! Our thoughts are that it will enable people to be more informed consumers of content. We especially believe in the power it will have for Financial News/Fintech News and Political News, as Misinformation and Inaccurate Reporting in those sectors can have extremely serious repercussions. Our focus on mobile notifications and plugins for existing blogging, news, social media sites will make it so that users haven't already consumed and digested the information before having some awareness of any issues with accuracy or bias. :)
Awesome
I think it is a great idea. I use to be an investigator for FNMA (mortgage fraud) which made my curious mind suspicious of everything so I became a research animal. The proof is always in the pudding. But I do think it is especially important that the "human" mind play a role in discerning what is fact and what is fiction.
We're glad to hear that great feedback and it's good to hear about people about people having that sort of drive to research and discern truth by their very nature! :) And regarding the part played by the 'human' mind, we also agree that is very important to people, which is why we will utilize discussion and human contribution as an additional means of vetting information! Thanks for taking the time to learn more about us! :)
Namaste
great news
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