In the current climate of information overload the demand for fact checking is increasing. Factcheckers are often small teams that struggle to keep up with the demand. In recent years, new organisations like WikiTribune have suggested crowdsourcing as an attractive and low-cost way for fact checking to scale.

I believe there’s a role for crowdsourced fact checking, but (so far) it’s not fact checking. Here’s my take.

… Crowdsourced Fact checking