Political Influencer Profiles

Political profiles give us information about political influencers, be they politicians, aspiring politicians, or serving politicians.

Core Concepts

1. Provide political influencer profiles based on verifiable facts.

2. Provide adequate information to help people pick political candidates.

3. We do not produce any of the content; we are collecting it from specialized and reputable organizations.

4. We serve citizens that want to inform themselves before they vote.

5. We are not responsible for the validity of claims made by external sources, only the data we have created and shared.

   1. We will need to create a page for this bit that lists all things STR is responsible for and where we stand with those responsibilities.

Core Requirements

1. Collect information on political influencers from fact-checked sources.

2. Make the system decentralized to allow for deployment to any AWS account.

3. Create cheap data integration solutions for external data sources.

4. Any outbound links provide a disclaimer.

   1. We’re not responsible for false information associated with this resource.

5. Minimal non-controversial profile information.

   1. Full Legal Name - To identity a political influencer.

   2. Photo - To identify related content anywhere.

   3. Date of Birth - Only for identifying someone and avoiding mixups and nothing more.

   4. Current & Past Residence - We want to know how invested a political influencer is in various contexts.

   5. Terms in office - We want to understand how politically active they are.

6. Political titles - To gauge their level of influence.

   1. Example: Senate Majority Leader

   2. Political Affiliation - To understand their principles & values.

7. Potentially controversial profile information.

   1. Influence score - To understand whether or not it’s worth learning about them in the first place.

   2. Integrity score - To know how well they adhere to their principles and values.

Future Requirements

1. Provide this information in future versions.

   1. Any public donations.

   2. Links to voting record page on congress.gov - To understand how well they adhere to their principles and values.

   3. Public litigation records for lawsuits.

   4. Organization affiliations.

2. Aggregate relevant content from various sources to help people form their opinion about candidates.

   1. Allow commenting on posted content like StackOverflow, which we may be able to use.

   2. People who preceded a particular political candidate

   3. Congressional committee assignments

3. Allow people to compare profiles.

4. Allow submission of claims associated with political influencers.

   1. The burden of proof is always on the claimant.

   2. Wikipedia is one of the claimants.

   3. Provide public aggregated records and citations for claims.

5. Claim reviewers must meet the criteria.

6. Only provide cross-referenced information.

   1. Display everywhere data entry occurs.

7. Multiple people review claims and claim reviewers before going live.

   1. Reject Claims

   2. Approve Claims

   3. Etc.