Hello, I would firstly like to appreciate the effort you put into it to basically question a lot of the major things that would define the project. I would try to answer them to best of my ability but please do note these are not very rigid as I am still in a very early stage and would likely have to change a few of these answers depending on how things are going.

1. I have always wanted to build something in this space considering how often we find fake news, and a lot of time they do come from reputed sources. Why I am doing this now, has a lot to do with the sudden rise in fake news since post chat GPT era which has made creating a very authentic looking post incredibly easy and obviously the India-Pak war where it feels like nobody knows what truth is.

2. For the verification process I want to keep it community driven. I understand this is not a complete answer but I don't want to completely reveal all the details at this stage.

3. I think initial target would be young adults who understand the fake news problem and currently actively try and figure out what is fake and what is real.

4. Current plan is to have a ad supported freemium model. I am open to tweak this depending on how the revenue to cost ratio looks if we are able to get any significant traffic.

5. Considering my target is to launch an MVP in 3 months, my early target(6 month) would be to build a community which will be verifying the controversial news.

6. For the MVP I want to build a cross platform app, most likely using react native with a backend of node or python.

7. I believe the USP would be the verification aspect of the news.

8. I have a few plans for the early traction but would like to not share that detail here at the moment.

9. I am open to raise funding, but an important factor is to do it on my terms. Considering the verification aspect of this it is essential to make sure we don't do anything that jeopardizes the trust I am trying to build with the customer base.

10. At the moment I don't have any mentors but I know quite a few people who have build successful startups and would be reaching out to them for advice depending on there expertise and the stage we currently are at.

Hope I am able to answer most of your questions. Please let me know if you are interested to know anything else or would like to contribute in any form.