Show HN: CRED-1 – Open domain credibility dataset for on-device pre-bunking

Category: infrastructure

Tags: credibility, misinformation, dataset

Score: 6.5/10 (Innovation: 6, Technical: 5, Documentation: 8, Utility: 7)

CRED-1 is an open-source dataset and pipeline that assigns credibility scores to over 2,600 domains, combining multiple signals like fact-check frequency and domain age. It's designed for on-device, pre-bunking of misinformation in browser extensions and research, presented at ACM WebSci 2026. The project is interesting for its systematic, reproducible approach to a timely problem.

Target audience: data engineers, researchers, privacy-conscious tool developers

Repository: https://github.com/aloth/cred-1 · Python · CC-BY-4.0 · 7 stars

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