Another place to start: Privacy Guides has a history of tracking quite a variety of computer networking tools (browsers, data providers, Internet services, software, hardware, desktop and phone, even operating systems),
One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive. -- Hannah Arendt
The EU has such, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), works reasonably well. Pretty good place to start.
Desktops, tablets, phones: Kiwix can use a bunch of reference works downloaded to your machine(s), from Wiktionary to the 100 GB Wikipedia (with thumbnail pics) to Gutenberg books.
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That word is carrying a mighty big load.
What's one that doesn't suck?
Historical background on current events: Heather Cox Richardson.
Yeah, lots of opinions, a few facts: one of the discussions.
True in a way. However, there is a rather large collection of speculation on the Internet that is quite an undertaking to correct. And a large population of people and bots willing to speculate. Also, having once been speculated, each speculation takes on a life of its own. If it gets much more substantial, forget Skynet, we're busy creating Specunet and its sidekick Confusionet -- an insidious duo.
(Uhhh, AI in charge of censorship? So no one knows how decisions are made? No one can know with AI. That's just a large mistake. The other ideas have some merit though.)
Gotta start somewhere though, gotta start somewhere.
Be careful of printers with chipped toner though. Older models still rock.
This looks to be more an endorsement of moderation principles and rules, not determining truth of comments.
For the difficulties in determining what's true, see the kerfuffle about Media Bias Fact Check.
There's certainly a history of Unix and Unix-like forks; which is rather simple compared to the Linux distro forks (go right to the big pic).
There is something to this; however, there are historical examples of rather quick progress. FDR for one (public work projects and infrastructure, financial reforms, regulations, social security, etc.), when old and young, the president, government employees, the whole general public (with some exceptions), held to popular principles of egalitarian fairness against the few unconscionably rich. A time of tasty pills.
CDC Covid data, as of June 29, 2024.
Huh, that's so, it was there last January. It used to follow this paragraph (still there today anyway), which contains a similar criticism with citation:
It is widely used and has sometimes been criticised for its methodology.[4] Scientific studies[5] using its ratings note that ratings from Media Bias/Fact Check show high agreement with an independent fact checking dataset from 2017,[6] with NewsGuard[7] and with BuzzFeed journalists.
So if those are considered fact-based, there's no need to delve further.