OpenForensic Investigative Platform - Journalist Feedback Wanted.

So I'd written a post on steemit a year or so back detailing a platform I was working on for journalists & readers to collaborate on investigations & analyze evidence. It started as an attempt to teach myself to code, but I discovered the world of crypto/blockchain/ etc and started looking into ways I might one day be able to integrate with ETH / Steem or some alternative. My last post (link below) focused on some theoretical questions on crypto / tech in general. I've learned a good amount since then, so in this post I was hoping to get some open feedback from the functional side of things...on the journalism component. Input from folks in the journalism profession would be great, but also just any readers who might be interested in helpin me out...

Some quick background...(more details are in my previous post)

https://steemit.com/journalism/@steemitbb/investigative-citizen-journalist-app-evaluating-integration-with-steemit

• Users can create and collaborate on investigations around some topic of their choosing (I am working on more of a Slack-esque real time chat feature to improve upon the current 'discussions').

• Users can 'pin' evidence from around the web to any investigation w a Chrome extension / plug in (can tag/create sources from the extension, etc).

• Links are archived automatically on the Wayback machine and a screenshot generated from the HTML - i'm sure there will be better ways to approach this in a more decentralized manner in the future using the distributed web (https://protocol.ai/projects/#IPFS, etc).

• working on DataMap feature that lets users visually organize exhibits & a source trail that tracks articles & evidence back to an original (primary) source.

• Somehow need to validate sources and their trustworthiness/objectivity.

My main question is around the last point. The point of the community would be to validate the authenticity / objectivity of any piece of evidence at any time...a massive undertaking I know that could be approached a million ways. So...

1. What are your thoughts on what could be the simplest, most effective way to award users with a coin/token for helping to track evidence (image/video/article/pdf, etc,) back to the original, primary source (& thereby helping to validate & weight the evidence)?

2. What would be a simple but effective method for weighting the trustworthiness of a source based upon the previous exhibits they are associated with?

Any feedback would be much appreciated...This is sort of a hobby project of mine that got me into code/crypto, so I will probably end up just throwing the code out on github & opensourcing it...in case other new devs can learn from any of it.