Call for Participation in Decentralized Fact-checking & Provenance Organization (DeFacto) Community Group

The Decentralized Fact-checking & Provenance Organization (DeFacto) Community Group has been launched:

The Decentralized Fact-checking & Provenance Working Group (DFCP) is committed to actively researching, developing, building, maintaining, managing, upgrading, and implementing robust amendments for a decentralized fact-checking system and stringent provenance standards for text-based literature and content. We will drive this initiative forward with determination and efficacy.

DFCP strives to empower societies with tools to identify and mitigate/counter misinformation, disinformation, and Fake News at scale.

This group will publish Specifications.

In order to join the group, you will need a W3C account. Please note, however, that W3C Membership is not required to join a Community Group.

This is a community initiative. This group was originally proposed on 2024-12-14 by Mohith Agadi. The following people supported its creation: Raphaël Troncy, Adam Sobieski, Mohith Agadi, Manoj Agadi and Ajit Nongmaithem. W3C’s hosting of this group does not imply endorsement of the activities.

The group must now choose a chair. Read more about how to get started in a new group and good practice for running a group.

We invite you to share news of this new group on social media and other channels.

If you believe that there is an issue with this group that requires the attention of the W3C staff, please email us at site-comments@w3.org

Thank you,
W3C Community Development Team