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Justice & public goodsPreliminary editorial review

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Builds Check and related tools supporting media and civic groups organizing verification workflows and community information.

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Systemic Altruism practice potential: 74–84/100
90% of weighted axes reviewed. A mechanism hypothesis, not proven effectiveness or a donation recommendation.

Who this work enables

Tools & support for charities: Check verification workflows and reusable API code for media, civic engagement and public-interest information groups.

Open-source evidence · license checked

  • Check API — MIT license file. Organization’s role: maintainer.
    Named repository license inspected on the review date; dependencies, datasets, content, trademarks and hosted services have separate terms. License-file snapshot: 5daf81c6717d2913a3c23d569289aa64fdfcec1a.

License checked 2026-10-27. This is not a security audit, proof of current support or effectiveness, or a promise of free hosting. A sponsor or steward is not necessarily the sole developer. Unchecked profiles are not evidence of closed code. No extra score points are added.

Humanity’s Checklist source match

Attention · Coordination — editorial, partial alignment.

Verification workflows can help groups direct attention toward checked information and coordinate responses. This does not change feed incentives by itself and is not the checklist’s specific attention platform.

Explicit checklist adoption: not verified. A mechanism match is not an affiliation, endorsement, evidence of effectiveness or a scoring bonus. Read the practice.

Focus classification: 2026-10-27. Based on the organization’s dated official sources below; earlier axis-review dates are unchanged.

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The proposed pathway

Reusable collaborative verification infrastructure for information organizations

Six dimensions, with rationale

Structural depth

3 / 4

Shared verification workflows address repeated information-management and coordination constraints across partner organizations.

Institutional reach

4 / 4

The multi-country and multilingual partner design has broad institutional potential, not a verified measure of reduced misinformation.

Durability

2 / 4

Skills and shared workflows may persist, but verification quality, platform integrations and maintenance need ongoing resources.

Scalability

4 / 4

The MIT-licensed API can be adapted, while hosting, messaging-platform access and human verification remain costly.

Funding additionality

Unreviewed

Unknown: current marginal funding, restricted allocations, delivery capacity and a credible counterfactual have not been audited.

Community agency

Unreviewed

Unknown: open source, consultations, memberships or participation do not by themselves establish audited consequential decision rights for affected communities.

Evidence and selection

Organization reported; current primary mechanism sources inspected and named license file checked

Illustrative inclusion to examine this mechanism. Inclusion is not an external recommendation or a verified comparative ranking.

A testable next question

Do partner teams using these workflows improve timely, accurate and equitable responses beyond alternative approaches, with measurable downstream benefits and acceptable privacy risks?

Review confidence: Moderate for documented design; low for systemic attribution. Check and partner-enabling infrastructure only. The current site also features Suwali; the Check API license check is not generalized to every newer product.

What remains uncertain

Verification errors, linguistic bias, moderation choices, AI failure and sensitive tip data can cause harms. Usage or tipline counts do not establish changes in beliefs or behavior. The organization’s current product direction is broader than Check; no license or impact claim is made for all products.

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Axis review: 2026-10-27 · weighting method v0.2 (2026-10-26) · Method, conflicts and coverage