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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Abstraction · 61-69, M

Google, facebook and tech giants have demonstrated that they no longer deserve the trust of society. They represent extreme corporate profiteering where ethics are little more than PR. They have misused their position, abuse our privacy and data to the 9th degree reading our emails and keeping databases on us, manipulate what we see, allow horrendous misuse of their platforms such as scams, terrorists... I'm glad they have fact-checking, but don't fully trust them. If the facts were against their business interests, for instance?

Here is the best fact checker I've found. No wiki, this is done by highly qualified professionals in the field without pay or allegiance to this site. There is no one answer, they can disagree. You wander through their discussion and draw your own conclusions.
https://metafact.io/

DDonde · 31-35, M

@Abstraction They never were anything more than the McDonalds of the tech sphere.
They never deserved any trust at all in the first place, and nobody who will replace them will be deserving of any trust either!

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@Abstraction I'll look into them, yet I have reservations because of unknown coding practices.

You see it's these utilities that are the problem not necessarily the organizations themselves.

"The whole is the sum of it's parts."

DDonde · 31-35, M

@DeWayfarer What utiltities? Google is not a utility

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@DDonde https://schema.org/.

It's a consortium. As well as Open source's utility. I have no idea what it's called.

It's vaguely mentioned in

https://schema.org/.