True to Our Word! TruthSeal Pays Big Bounty on First Challenge

SILICON VALLEY, Calif., Jan. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Truth Seal Corp. (TruthSeal™), today announced that Timothy Tacker, of Plainfield, Illinois, was awarded a $1,000 bounty for falsifying the claim that "Fox News is the most trusted news channel in the US." 

TruthSeal enables organizations to guarantee commercial, political and other publicly noteworthy claims by putting up cash bounties for anyone who can prove the claims false.  "We founded TruthSeal to increase truth and trust throughout the Internet and information space," said Rick Hayes-Roth, CEO of TruthSeal and author of Truthiness Fever.  "It's a response to the tsunami of misleading claims tainting public discourse, today, by rewarding truth-telling and those who expose false claims."

Providing evidence to TruthSeal that the Fox News claim was misleading, Mr. Tacker stated, "I discovered that this poll is conducted only annually; and the most recent poll, in January of 2011, actually supported an entirely different conclusion." 

After reviewing the evidence presented by Mr. Tacker, TruthSeal's panel of adjudicators unanimously determined that a valid claim would read, "Fox News is less trusted than PBS, and PBS is the most trusted national US news television broadcaster."  This marks the first successful challenge made through the TruthSeal Marketplace for Truth Telling™. 

"TruthSeal helps increase public trust in claims of all kinds with a cash guarantee of truthfulness. When people put their own money where their mouths are, they think twice about making false claims—allowing truth tellers to rise above the noise," concluded Dr. Hayes-Roth.

To learn more about the challenge process and how TruthSeal taps into the collective intelligence of the entire world to fight information pollution, visit the TruthSeal website at http://www.truthseal.com.

About TruthSeal Corp.

Truth Seal Corp., founded in 2011, reviews factual evidence and guarantees commercial and political claims. TruthSeal has created the first Marketplace for Truth Telling where claims backed by verifiable evidence are guaranteed true, and where evidence that falsifies invalid claims, wins bounties for challengers. TruthSeal also operates TruthMarket, a social networking site designed to engage the global public in searching for evidence of public claims.

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