Report Credibility Rating Launched on Allvoices

Allvoices has launched a beta user report credibility rating. The credibility indicator is a new approach intended to help our community sort through uncensored contributor reports in the rapidly growing citizen media phenomenon. Allvoices is an unedited and unfiltered reporting platform so we want to ensure users have a sense of the reputability of the content. The simple indicator on report credibility will help our users find the news that matters to them.

The report credibility is based on a combination of:

• How the community interacts and responds to a report
• How the community interacts and responds to a report
• The reporter's reputation
• How mainstream news sources support the report content

At the core of Allvoices are everyday citizens and journalists who create news reports. At the core our proprietary credibility algorithm is an evaluation of the content and author by the community and mainstream sources. This hybrid approach merges the power of the community with the power of the Allvoices intelligent news analysis engine to provide a consistent and reliable gauge of the trustworthiness of the content.

The Allvoices community has the power to create reports, express opinion, respond to content, promote quality content, build a portfolio, connect with others and monitor the site. We welcome and encourage you to exercise this power!

As always, we appreciate and welcome your input on this new feature (email community@allvoices.com). We are going to be tuning and tweaking the algorithm over the next few weeks, so keep posted for updates!