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Chase Palmieri – Crowd-Sourcing the News: Start-Up “Credder” Turns Readers Into ReviewersAiring Tuesday, February 18, 2020 at 2:00 PM PST / 5:00 PM ESTInterview with Chase Palmieri, Co-Founder of Credder“Love lives in our heart, beliefs lie in our head.” — Swami BeyondanandaAt a time when disinformation, misinformation and missing information characterizes much of the news, and the trust in media is at an all-time low, might it be time to access the “wisdom of crowds”?Our Wiki Politiki guest this week, Chase Palmieri, thinks so. He and his partner, Austin Walter, have founded a new platform, Credder, that they’ve branded “Rotten Tomatoes” for the news. Credder – rooted obviously in the word “credibility” — allows readers to review articles for veracity and bias, and then post these reviews on the Credder site. Writers are then rated on these criteria, and reviewers too are held accountable by THEIR ratings.The site says:We believe news should compete for credibility, not clicks. Together on Credder’s news rev