Saw this “fact checked” tag on the Forbes website. It’s adds visual credibility but I have no idea who this person is.

Imagine someone or a team fact-checking articles/news etc and wrapping/minting the item with their fact check stamp, cryptographically signing that item as true, false, etc. 

Think web3 snopes

Nice guy pretty interested in how web 3 and crypto can help the average person.

If any eth address can tag something as truthful, doubtful etc and sign that artifact w their key, binding their attestation to that belief in its truth/falsehood, etc. this primitive could cryptographically build a meta trust layer on top of existing media/web/any content.

Now make wallets / farcaster clients / browser and extensions “aware” of that attestation (or I can search for an attestation of that artifact on chain) and show me who trusts/distrusts something.

Strikes me something like @kiwi could be aware of attestations like this and add that meta layer for links shared @macbudkowski

People / orgs / teams build credibility. Some alpha from wisdom of crowds, but a way to build reputation, too.

If I see some meme coin on here (or more likely on x) and I see a red flag on it from @zachxbt then well, I know all I need to know.

Is this video of elon a deep fake? 

Signed as “true” by official Elon account? Welp?

Tip fact checkers as revenue stream? Alphafrens style subscribe to fact checker “feeds”?

I heard I think @dwr.eth talking once about a benefit of farcaster is people we trust (say @vitalik.eth) and we can verify it’s their owned account, talking about something THEY trust or distrust can give a social signal. 

Now bake that action on chain.