Rootclaim Content Policy

Unwelcome content

Rootclaim Content Policy

Content Policy

Rootclaim is a platform that includes discussion and debate in an inclusive, open, fact-based environment. The content may include polarizing topics, which means it’s of critical importance to communicate with fellow participants in a respectful way. All elements of an analysis must be written in a neutral point of view, representing fairly and, as far as possible, without bias, the essence of the element.

Unwelcome content

Content is prohibited if it:

Is illegal
Is pornographic
Encourages or incites violence
Threatens, harasses, or bullies, or encourages others to do so
Includes personal and confidential information
Impersonates someone in a misleading or deceptive manner
Is spam
Is hate speech

Enforcement

We have a variety of means of enforcing our rules, including, but not limited to

Asking you nicely to knock it off
Asking you less nicely
Temporary or permanent suspension of accounts
Removal of privileges from, or adding restrictions to, accounts
Removal of content

Rootclaim Launches Open Analysis Platform That Surpasses Human Reasoning

A substantial body of research has shown that the human brain is unreliable when it comes to accurately assessing complex problems. This means the only way to navigate a sea of half-truths is to complement humanity's fallible intuition with objective probabilistic analysis.

Anti-Fraud Experts Launch News-Accuracy Site, Find U.S. Probably Blamed Wrong Side for Syria Chemical Attack

In applying the fraud-detection approach, Rootclaim seeks to break news events into similar bite-sized pieces and assign values to the individual pieces of evidence, factoring for uncertainty and source reliability. The individual pieces are then loaded into an algorithm that draws big-picture conclusions.

Fighting Fake News - Proof and Probability

The crowd can always improve, can always check everything. It’s like an open-source software. Addressing all the evidence and details of these issues requires research and we rely on the horsepower of the crowd to get it done.

Richard Gutjahr

Fact or Fiction? Israeli Startup Pops Fake News Conspiracy Bubbles

The basic reason that we fail at reaching sound conclusions for complex problems is that we base our decisions on filtered information, cherry-picked evidence from biased and interested sources, which is implicitly filtered by us. On top of that, there are a slew of situations where human intuition fails us miserably.

Huffington Post

Anti-Fraud Experts Launch News-Accuracy Site, Find U.S. Probably Blamed Wrong Side for Syria Chemical Attack

In applying the fraud-detection approach, Rootclaim seeks to break news events into similar bite-sized pieces and assign values to the individual pieces of evidence, factoring for uncertainty and source reliability. The individual pieces are then loaded into an algorithm that draws big-picture conclusions.

Fact or Fiction? Israeli Startup Pops Fake News Conspiracy Bubbles

The basic reason that we fail at reaching sound conclusions for complex problems is that we base our decisions on filtered information, cherry-picked evidence from biased and interested sources, which is implicitly filtered by us. On top of that, there are a slew of situations where human intuition fails us miserably.

Huffington Post