A widely shared post claims 94% reduction in hospitalizations without citing the underlying trial.
Truth Bounties
Trust infrastructure
for the modern world
Truth Bounties is a powerful tool to build credibility, challenge misinformation, and resolve disputes.
Why Truth Bounties
Anyone can say they're right, but talk is cheap.
Truth Bounties lets you put money behind your claims. Anyone who can prove you wrong gets the money. When you put skin in the game, people have a reason to believe you.
See how it worksConfidence made visible
A Truth Bounty turns “trust me” into a powerful signal of credibility. The bigger the bounty, the louder the message.
Anyone can challenge
Critics don't need a platform to be heard. Anyone with evidence can challenge bountied content.
Independent Arbitration
Disputes go to professional arbitrators through the American Arbitration Association — not a popularity contest, crowd vote, or algorithm.
Active right now
Browse All BountiesBounties on the board
A think-tank report selectively cites one worst-case scenario from a multi-model IPCC dataset.
Claims a summit expedition was pushed into a deadly window by forecasts that contradicted the real data.
A viral claim that a breakthrough fully reverses Type 1 diabetes by regenerating insulin-producing cells.
8Active Bounties
5Challenges Pending
$66,850Total Bountied
Our Process
How Truth Bounties works
01
Post a Bounty
Attach money to your content—statements, claims, advertisements, etc.
02
Share the Badge
The Truth Bounty badge signals that you stand behind your content.
03
Invite a Challenge
For a fee, challengers can bring evidence that your content is false or misleading.
04
Respond to Challenges
You can concede or defend your content and proceed to arbitration.
05
Resolve with Arbitration
Independent arbitrators consider the evidence and resolve the dispute.
06
The Reward
If a challenger wins, they get the Truth Bounty. If the challenge fails, you keep the money—and your credibility grows.
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The Badges
A signal of trust – and accountability
Bountied content carries a badge. The badge tells the world, at a glance, the status of the content.
Vibrant Badge
Active Bounty
A Truth Bounty is attached to this content, the content is open to challenge.
- When it appears
- From the moment a bounty is posted until a challenge succeeds or the bounty period closes.
- What it means
- The author has put money behind this content, and anyone with evidence can bring a challenge
A different model
Fact-checking, but with real stakes
Good information matters. Conventional fact checking falls short. Truth Bounties raises the bar.
| Question | Conventional fact checking | Truth Bounties |
|---|---|---|
| When it happens | After content circulates | Badge appears when author posts bounty — can be the moment content goes live |
| Who starts it | Fact checker chooses what to review | Author puts their own content forward, anyone can challenge |
| Who decides | Fact checker | Independent professional arbitrators |
| What the author risks | Nothing concrete | The Truth Bounty |
| What's the record | Reports on scattered websites | Centralized, searchable database of the content, challenge, and outcome |
| Who knows about it | Viewers of scattered websites | Anyone who sees the badge or visits the Truth Bounties platform |
From the blog
What we're reading
Reporting, research and regulation on trust, AI and misinformation — the ground Truth Bounties is built on.
Business is still the only institution read as both competent and ethical — and the report is candid about the limits of that.Read the article Creators are finding their own faces in advertising for products they have never touched.Read the article Seven AI-generated scams a retail brand's legal team is most likely to meet this year.Read the article A practical guide to catching a false claim about your brand while it is still small.Read the article A sharp, well-documented case of the chart itself being the misleading part.Read the article The annual read on where people get their news, and how much of it they believe.Read the article A live compliance question for any brand running AI-generated advertising.Read the article A research look at whether technology can cover what the platforms are stepping back from.Read the article
Back your claims, build your reputation.
Post a Bounty
Stand behind your statements. Choose the stakes, share the badge, and send a signal of trust.
Post a BountyChallenge content
Think bountied content is false or misleading? Prove it to an independent arbitrator — and collect the bounty if you’re right.
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