Interesting work, YazIAm. Conceptually this reminds me a little bit of the idea behind Kialo. Down the road, there might be some interesting synergy potential between fact attestation and debate.<p>I've had a few related thoughts, on the off chance you find them useful:<p>1. It would be interesting, variously for journalists and the reading public, if it was possible for journalists to generate, disclose, and research cryptographic sourcing identifiers that enable them to figure out when they share a source. This could, critically, help journalists identify sources with a record of feeding other journalists bad information.<p>It'd be nice if the same work could help the rest of us unravel citation chains based on a small number of unique sources, but I'm not sure there's a way to achieve that without it being fairly simple to re-identify sources via brute-force.<p>2. If we can drill enough to find some bedrock, I think it might be useful to have virtuous-cycle user tools, like browser extensions that warn users when visiting an article by writers/publications (and potentially even sources, per above) with repeated sourcing/attestation problems. I don't think of this as purely a journalistic thing. In the sciences it could apply to methodology, data-collection/statistical integrity. With some bedrock, tooling in place, and established trust/community practice in place here, it might also be possible to expand the scope a little and address things like headlines that aren't at all moored to evidence.