How do you feel about website fact checking?

While spelunking in the fowl bowels of this site as well as a few others I came across a site reference to https://schema.org/.

Going through that site I found some references to fact checking utility options.

I must note that while schema.org is claimed to be a consortium of Bing, Google and others. It's origins solely lay on Google.

There are apparently other such fact checking utilities. Open source is also one of them.

What I find quite foully odorous and obnoxious is what values do such sites have?

Google's values I have known for decades. I thoroughly and totally distrust them. Yet what of Open source or others?

How do you feel about this?

Must note, since this site is using scheme.org it's not out of the realm for them to start fact checking. They are using it for other purposes like search. Which brings up a whole other can of garbage. 😞

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lovelywarpedlemon

we are all literally being sold, our thoughts become part of the machine under the guise of convenience. but we also can have powerful influence, where it's allowed. nonetheless, anonymity is a real joke if you know just a little bit of computer coding. any time you go online you are being watched--not only watched and observed, but studied, analyzed, and categorized. it's a fact.

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@lovelywarpedlemon

...anonymity is a real joke if you know just a little bit of computer coding. any time you go online you are being watched--not only watched and observed, but studied, analyzed, and categorized. it's a fact.

That's why I mentioned...

Must note, since this site is using scheme.org it's not out of the realm for them to start fact checking. They are using it for other purposes like search. Which brings up a whole other can of garbage.

lovelywarpedlemon

@DeWayfarer ah then there's nothing more to add i guess, the only way to avoid the corruption online is to be entirely offline. sometimes i think about ditching it... i wish it wasn't so.