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A New Incentive Model For Content Trust

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  • Lucas Barbosa
  • Sam Kirshner
  • Rob Kopel
  • Eric Tze Kuan Lim
  • Tom Pagram

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This paper outlines an incentive-driven and decentralized approach to verifying the veracity of digital content at scale. Widespread misinformation, an explosion in AI-generated content and reduced reliance on traditional news sources demands a new approach for content authenticity and truth-seeking that is fit for a modern, digital world. By using smart contracts and digital identity to incorporate 'trust' into the reward function for published content, not just engagement, we believe that it could be possible to foster a self-propelling paradigm shift to combat misinformation through a community-based governance model. The approach described in this paper requires that content creators stake financial collateral on factual claims for an impartial jury to vet with a financial reward for contribution. We hypothesize that with the right financial and social incentive model users will be motivated to participate in crowdsourced fact-checking and content creators will place more care in their attestations. This is an exploratory paper and there are a number of open issues and questions that warrant further analysis and exploration.

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  • Lucas Barbosa & Sam Kirshner & Rob Kopel & Eric Tze Kuan Lim & Tom Pagram, 2025. "A New Incentive Model For Content Trust," Papers 2507.09972, arXiv.org.
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