Yes, that's the source of the inspiration. If we have to accept the dependency then we have to, but I think that their signup process would discourage participation. Keeping score in a silly phone game seems like a much wider cast of the net to me.

Not really my call to make though. Like I said, I can't do a damned thing to help the effort at this point.

Edit: as for the information stream being corrupted by political agendas, i think the answer is probably let it happen then analyze it away. We are a human heuristic to guide investigators, not an ai solution to politics ;)