Conducting the interviews gave us plenty of insight into the kinds of information the users of our system would most likely be interested in receiving. Our interview participants expressed a need in real-time, credible, and factual information, free from biases and personal opinions as much as possible. During the design stage, we hope to elaborate on the mechanisms that would allow fact-checking, make sure the shared news are neutral, and that the news meets certain relevancy criteria. The relevancy criteria should exclude such news as celebrity gossip, or news about the activities of business people who are not employed by the government.

To encourage the users to share news using our system, we are going to focus on making sure that the users can share them with pride, and with as little discomfort as possible. Many interview participants stated that they would normally share political news only with people in their very close circles. To remove that barrier, we think that news sharing in our system should be anonymous, and the anonymity of the source should be protected. However, the system should track users who routinely share unacceptable content, in order to prevent them from spamming the user community.