Factland is a nonprofit Web3 DAO created by Evan Hansen, Pam Statz, John Plevyak and Keith Axline. Our mission is to slow the spread of misinformation online by making it easy for anyone to flag untrustworthy claims and have them promptly adjudicated by a decentralized community of fact checkers paid in crypto. Our verdicts will be made available via an open API for any platform connected to the Internet to use as contextual labels on their content.


Beyond reviewing facts, Factland offers a new paradigm for achieving consensus, by inviting everyone to participate, encouraging active listening, and adversarial debate. All three have been shown in research to increase trust via inclusion, which traditional fact checking methods have either or actively undermined by creating the perception of bias.


Factland solves the unspoken gripe of the Internet: Why was I not consulted?


Last, the jury decisions delivered by Factland reflect not the opinion of elites, but the provable consensus view of society as a whole.


Using the Factland Dapp, people can upload claims for community review and comment, and stake FACT tokens to vote on whether they are true or false. Cases are decided by anonymous juries drawn randomly from the community to weigh the evidence and issue a verdict. Stakes are split between the winners, jurors and community investigators who contributed the best evidence.


All jury selection data and verdicts are stored on the blockchain where anyone can check for tampering and get a verification.
