Crowdsourcing for fact checking

Project during business school to create a viable startup to tackle fake news

Actions: 

  • Recruited a team amongst classmates including designers and developers to work on the problem

  • Came up with the core idea of utilizing crowdsourcing to tackle the problem at scale

  • Prioritized features for the prototype that was developed

  • Created pitch deck and made multiple presentations

Results

  • While this could not be operationalized as the team went on to various jobs, a very similar product is featured today on Google News as a factchecking source