Who is it made for?
Researchers, Developers & Individuals
Needs to connect to our newly existing API endpoint to check any content at any time. For social media platforms, integrate your links and check our API to flag content based on a specific standard.
- Researchers:
Use the API to draw statistics or to check site legitimacy when conducting research - Individuals:
Using the trusted list when consuming news media becomes one of the criteria of measurement credible content.
What is it made for?
An open-source community managed list, managed by an independent, credible NGO. Those attempting to fight the battle against misinformation and dodgy news seem to be silo’d in their efforts. This has lead to multiple lists of dodgy news sites and sources of information. There is little clear indication of the criteria used to evaluate the sites or who added items to the list. There is also currently no easy-to-use open source API to query or add to these lists. By developing the API, we seek to solve this.
Why you would want it?
It’s central and open! This is solving two problems. It is making a central, transparent and interactive list available, clearly indicating the metrics used in determining each element of the list. It is also providing a platform in the form of an easy to use API, so that much of the heavy lifting on the backend is handled for organisations and individuals who want to build tools to fight fake news, don’t need to re-invent the wheel with the listing element.
