Reporting “Fake New” doesn’t need to be centralized or placed in the hands of a single entity. Like the Web, it should be distributed across conversation-oriented spaces.

Fundamental to all of this is use of existing open standards that trivialize creation and publication of content using simple sentences.

Simple example of a subject, predicate, object sentence that’s comprehensible to both humans and software:

{

<#thisCommentByKingsleyIdehen> a schema:Comment ;
schema:name “Comment about: Make it easier for users to report fake news.”;
schema:text “””Reporting “Fake New” doesn’t need to be centralized or placed in the hands of a single entity. Like the Web, it should be distributed across conversation-oriented spaces.

Fundamental to all of this is use of existing open standards that trivialize creation and publication of content using simple sentences. “”” ;
schema:isRelatedTo <https://medium.com/whither-news/a-call-for-cooperation-against-fake-news-d7d94bb6e0d4#.xytfvi1ug> .

}

Visualization of the sentences above, using our Structured Data Sniffer Browser Extension:

Effect of creating a comment that controlled by the author while also being available on the Web

This simple example uses a concept called Nanotation.

[1] What is Nanotation?

[2] How this content becomes part of a Semantic Web

[3] Alternative view of this content injected into a Semantic Web