A Knowledge Commons for the 21st Century

The Source of Truth Problem is Getting Worse with Agents — Tonk

Intelligence depends on knowledge, but in practice that knowledge is fragmented across tools, people, and formats, creating conflicting versions of reality. What if we accepted that knowledge lives at the edge and focused instead on effectively sharing it?

Constructing a New Knowledge Infrastructure

A knowledge commons could support evidence-based policymaking, but it will require coordination with the communities monitoring pollution.

The rise of community-curated knowledge networks

The Internet put thousands of years of human thought at our fingertips, and enabled billions of people to create content. At least 2.5…

Epistemic Infrastructure: Building Shared Truth in an Era of Disaggregation

The Construct of Collective Perception

Workshop on Governing Knowledge Commons - PUBLICATIONS

Edited collections of knowledge commons case studies produced by the Workshop on Governing Knowledge Commons.

Trump's Truth

'Trump's Truth' is a searchable archive of Donald Trump's posts on TRUTH Social.

The Politics of Open Infrastructures: Power, Governance, and Justice in Digital Knowledge Practices

This volume examines how openness is designed, governed, contested and lived in contemporary digital knowledge infrastructures. From open source software and internet standards, to citizen science platforms, public sector data systems and alternative computing practices, the book shows that infrastructures are never neutral technical backbones.

The social media context interferes with truth discernment

Simply considering whether to share news on social media reduces the extent to which people discriminate truth from falsehood.

Reconciling truthfulness and relevance as epistemic and decision-theoretic utility.

See what you think

Allegra A. Beal Cohen's blog about knowledge curation, new interfaces, and large-scale qualitative data.

The Uncensored Library – Reporters without borders

I support The Uncensored Library and the fight for press freedom. #TruthFindsAWay

A Bayesian Truth Serum for Subjective Data

Subjective judgments, an essential information source for science and policy, are problematic because there are no public criteria for assessing judgmental truthfulness. I present a scoring method for eliciting truthful subjective data in situations ...

Four Ps for Building Massive Collective Knowledge Systems

Design principles for collective knowledge systems—permanence, provenance, permission, and placement—that enable robust networks for evidence-based decision making.