The independent truth service

The essay argues that Facebook and Twitter should go beyond crowd-sourced tools like Elon Musk's Community Notes and build an independent truth service that can settle disputed factual questions. It says Community Notes works only at a low level of analytic power, since it can handle simple myths but not questions such as whether Covid was a lab leak. It names Rootclaim as a small attempt at such a service, though the author says he is not fond of its Bayesian approach. The text concludes that a stronger, more authoritative truth signal would produce power, which it says always earns a return over time.