Grasswire is a real-time, crowdsourced newsroom that lets users confirm or refute breaking-news posts by upvoting content and posting source URLs to corroborate or disprove claims. Users can upvote posts to surface them and refute incorrect items by adding links to source material; those links are shared whenever the post is shared on social media. The website officially launched about a month ago and has attracted roughly 1,000–2,000 active daily users and a Twitter following of over 30,000. Grasswire is still in its seed-funding round and has raised $50,000 to date. The team’s current product has some bugs and does not currently have an iOS developer, a gap noted in the article. The founders and supporters position the platform as a supplement to traditional journalism, aiming to harness large-scale crowdsourced scrutiny to reduce false reports during breaking events.

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Aug 2014