Online information overloads us because it is no longer geographically or socially constrained. Since we can no longer rely on many cultural institutions, we will need to make sense of the world ourselves.

Therefore, we need to:

• Reliably create and share source trust data,
• Consistently evaluate the truth of claims, and
• Use true claims to improve source trust data.

To support these needs, I envisioned:

• An Ontology-Driven Source Evaluator,
• A User-Centered Claim Evaluator, and
• Combined, an Iterative Truth Propagation Process.

I created a mobile app with React Native so it worked on iOS (iPhones, iPads, Apple TVs) and Android. Because people have largely converged to only ingesting information that they subscribe to via newsletters, social media, or other niche websites and apps (e.g., Google News, Apple News+, etc.), I focused the app on following authors you know/trust.

I tested this mobile app with friends and family members, and found that:

• News often takes the form of clickbait headlines and is hidden behind paywalls because the companies are incentivized by profits, not spreading important information.
• However, this information is still very important for us to make good decisions and live our lives.
• People are still overloaded by several news articles published every day.
• People don’t want to download yet another mobile app, especially for something they do not do very often.