Allvoices.com Adds Report Credibility Ratings to Citizen Contributions

Simple Meter Establishes At-a-glance Credibility of Contributed Reports and their Authors

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) February 25, 2009 — allvoices.com, the worldwide civic and citizen news hub, today announced it has completed testing of its Report Credibility rating meter and has deployed it across the site in beta. allvoices’ Report Credibility rating is a simple indicator found at the bottom of every news story which helps the allvoices community sort through uncensored citizen media reports to determine their trustworthiness. As an un-edited and un-filtered reporting platform, allvoices Report Credibility ratings helps users find the news that matters to them. Report credibility is determined by community interaction and response, reporter reputation and the power of the Allvoices intelligent news analysis platform.

“Allvoices is the only global, participatory news site providing users with a quick way to determine if what they’re reading is credible,” said Amra Tareen, allvoices founder and CEO. “Citizen media is one of the fastest growing and most important uses of the web, but recent abuses on other news sites have threatened to undermine the important work of most citizen contributors.”

To address potential problems, allvoices devised the credibility system as a defense against fraudulent reports. “Allvoices’ Report Credibility rating system uses machine intelligence and the wisdom of our community to indicate just how trustworthy each and every report in our system is for the reader. Trust is absolutely essential in participatory media, and this system was explicitly built to engender that trust for our users,” said Dr. Sanjay Sood, allvoices CTO.

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