{"id":3,"date":"2025-01-08T16:05:54","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T16:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/defacto\/2025\/01\/08\/call-for-participation-in-decentralized-fact-checking-provenance-organization-defacto-community-group\/"},"modified":"2025-01-08T16:05:54","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T16:05:54","slug":"call-for-participation-in-decentralized-fact-checking-provenance-organization-defacto-community-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/defacto\/2025\/01\/08\/call-for-participation-in-decentralized-fact-checking-provenance-organization-defacto-community-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Participation in Decentralized Fact-checking &amp; Provenance Organization (DeFacto) Community Group"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/defacto\/\">Decentralized Fact-checking &amp; Provenance Organization (DeFacto) Community Group<\/a> has been launched:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-dots\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>The Decentralized Fact-checking &amp; 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.<\/p>\n\n<p>DFCP strives to empower societies with tools to identify and mitigate\/counter misinformation, disinformation, and Fake News at scale.<\/p>\n\n<p>This group will publish Specifications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-dots\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>In order to <a href=\"\/community\/defacto\/join\">join the group<\/a>, you will need\n    a <a href=\"\/account\/request\/\">W3C account<\/a>. Please note, however, that <a href=\"\/community\/about\/faq\/#is-w3c-membership-required-to-participate-in-a-community-or-business-group\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">W3C\n        Membership<\/a> is not required to join a Community Group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a community initiative. This group was originally proposed on 2024-12-14 by\n    Mohith Agadi. The following people supported its creation: Rapha\u00ebl Troncy, Adam Sobieski, Mohith Agadi, Manoj Agadi and Ajit Nongmaithem.\n    W3C&#8217;s hosting of this group does not imply endorsement of the activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The group must now <a href=\"\/community\/about\/faq\/#how-do-we-choose-a-chair\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">choose a chair<\/a>. Read more about <a href=\"\/community\/about\/faq\/#how-do-we-get-started-in-a-new-group\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">how to get started in a new group<\/a> and\n    <a href=\"\/community\/about\/good-practice-for-running-a-group\/\">good practice for running a group<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We invite you to share news of this new group on social media and other channels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you believe that there is an issue with this group that requires the attention of the W3C staff, please email us\n    at <a href=\"mailto:site-comments@w3.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">site-comments@w3.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you,<br \/>\nW3C Community Development Team<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Decentralized Fact-checking &amp; Provenance Organization (DeFacto) Community Group has been launched: The Decentralized Fact-checking &amp; 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/defacto\/2025\/01\/08\/call-for-participation-in-decentralized-fact-checking-provenance-organization-defacto-community-group\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/defacto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/defacto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/defacto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/defacto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/defacto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/defacto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/defacto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/defacto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/defacto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}