# Factland Research Archive

- [Factland Whitepaper](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wj5ewYapl5dWmxLQ4h0r1OmPpTgMi51dYMj33kxGI0s/edit#heading=h.36944hgdt8x4)
- [Factland early flows](https://cloud.yachtcopter.com/index.php/s/gACezH4BesZFNNk)

## Research from the RaidGuild Team

- https://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/futarchy.html
- https://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/ideafutures.html
- https://permafacts.arweave.dev/
- https://decrypt.co/210604/socrates-beginners-guide-the-cultural-nexus-offering-debate-to-earn-rewards
- https://court.aragon.org/#/dashboard
- https://warpcast.com/joalavedra/0x9a009d5a
- https://idir.uta.edu/claimbuster/
- https://proofinprogress.com/posts/2023-01-28/the-red-whale-that-killed-the-ocean-dao.html
- https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/designing-reward-systems-for-web3-governance/
- https://augur2.eth.link/#!/markets
- https://omen.eth.link/
- https://polymarket.com/

## Research from the Factland Team

## Supporting research

We haven't read all of these but I'm collecting them here so we have something to fall back as we start running our own experiments.

**Sortition as anti-corruption, pro-democracy**

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ajps.12704

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41412-017-0054-3

**Participation facilitates consensus**

https://westsidetoastmasters.com/resources/laws_persuasion/chap11.html

**Juries are more fair than we think**

https://www.justice.gov.uk/downloads/publications/research-and-analysis/moj-research/are-juries-fair-research.pdf

**Citizen Assemblies**

https://www.sortitionfoundation.org/why

https://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/the-irish-abortion-referendum-how-a-citizens-assembly-helped-to-break-years-of-political-deadlock/

https://www.sortitionfoundation.org/cases

**Juries**

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0183580

https://sparq.stanford.edu/solutions/diverse-juries-make-better-decisions

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2010/feb/groundbreaking-research-finds-juries-fair-and-effective

**Passivity breeds ignorance**

https://balkin.blogspot.com/2013/10/why-political-ignorance-is-serious.html

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## Web2 precedents

**Community notes**

https://www.yondonfu.com/p/under-the-hood-of-community-notes?r=3m2tc

**StackExchange**

https://stackexchange.com/

Similar:
- Uses reputation and privileges for rewards
- Organized into communities by subject

Different:
- Question initiates conversation, not statement

**Reddit**

https://www.reddit.com/

Like StackExchange, Reddit often provides that feeling of insight in the top comments. We'd like to expand and improve on that. Provide the best TLDR but then also unfurl into nuanced complexity for those who want to rabbit hole on something.

**Snopes**

https://www.snopes.com/

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## Adjudication

**Uma**

https://uma.xyz/#

https://medium.com/uma-project/polymarket-integrates-umas-optimistic-oracle-7fa89cae493e

**FACT Protocol**

https://fact.technology/

**Kleros**

https://kleros.io/

This is the first thing that people bring up when they talk to us. Lots of similar mechanisms and theories but they seem somewhat "enterprise" and are not approachable for the average person. Unsure of whether they're interested in adjudicating relatively trivial or pop culture claims. Seems high-touch, high-friction.

**The Internet Court of Truth**

https://truthcourt.net/

**Negation Game**

https://negationgame.com/

Connor McCormick is a relatively well known person working on a tangential project. He probably has some interesting learnings about focusing on falsifiable statements.

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## Potential partners

**Sortition Foundation**

https://www.sortitionfoundation.org/

**DROG**

https://drog.group/

**Berkeley reasearch grant**

https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/news/2023/university-california-researchers-win-grant-study-misinformation-surrounding-reproductive

**Vitalik is interested in the space**

https://warpcast.com/vbuterin/0x947e40

https://warpcast.com/vitalik.eth/0xa30656a6

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## Market / Problem validation

**Rivals climate change as the biggest global threat**

https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2022/08/31/climate-change-remains-top-global-threat-across-19-country-survey/

**SUPER DEBATE**

https://superdebate.org/

Really like their "empathy through understanding" idea. We're less interested in escalating confrontation than in bringing people together through respectful debate. Incentives should reward nuance and care, and punish trolls and bad faith inflamations.

Would love to partner with/sponsor whatever is left of the competitive debate clubs in the US.

**People increasingly looking for something like this**

https://warpcast.com/menno/0x542bfe4d

https://warpcast.com/dawufi/0x47fabd25

**Ground News**

https://ground.news/

Tries to combat bias by categorizing publications and visualizing distributions. Makes me think about solving the problem just by making things visible. If you can just show people what's happening in a useful way, they can often solve their own issue (in this case getting a more objective view of news topics).

**AI Making Things Harder**

https://twitter.com/cocktailpeanut/status/1696547744918159795

**AI Making Things Easier**

https://www.goodlylabs.org/projects

https://idir.uta.edu/claimbuster/

**Google**

https://blog.google/products/news/new-features-coming-to-fact-check-explorer/

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## Supporting technologies

https://tlsnotary.org/

## Incentive systems we like

Zora Protocol Rewards

https://support.mirror.xyz/hc/en-us/articles/21917161046804-Mirror-s-Protocol-Rewards?referrerAddress=0xe8BbE391340E0a3bf1aC13166c41266b65598CE9

## Examples of crowdsourced investigations in the wild

- https://x.com/laurenancona/status/1731900441800155459?s=46

## Prediction Markets

**PredictIt**

https://www.predictit.org/

A big initial inspiration for our UX and product development.

## Sentiment

**Ideamarket**

https://docs.ideamarket.io/