The idea is to create a means for web users to rate the factuality of content on a web page. A browser extension, which allows individual phrases of text to be selected, then rated for accuracy and commented upon. The browser extension then displays a score of the page’s factuality, based on the crowdsourced ratings. Clicking the extension reveals more detail, including comments from fact-checkers and selected passages from the text with notes and external references. With the plugin running, it could then automatically add a light green or red underline to text on the page which has been rated, indicating exactly which phrases have been reviewed. Hovering the cursor over these phrases brings up a popup of notes for that statement.
But here's the exciting part: each phrase of text that is selected, rated, and commented upon (hopefully with cited references to why the phrases are factual or bullshit) will be sent to a central server with the rating metadata. With a lot of usage, a huge corpus of text phrases