Full Fact - Automated Fact checking - Mevan
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Full Fact is building scalable, robust, automated factchecking tools to be used in newsrooms and by factcheckers all over the world.
Collaborative notes
UK’s independent fact-checking charity
Two pieces of tech we wanted to build
Links out to stories that have referenced those claims
A tool that helps us live fact-check (Live)
At the moment, does the BBC channels
Ability to add speakers manually so you know who said what
A tool that listens for facts (Check) - yay live demos
Claim detection
25,000 annotations from 80 volunteers
Paper dropping on this on Friday, September 21, 2018
Doing this also in South Africa, Argentina and Brazil, not just in the UK
Have plans to build APIs in the future, but still in prototyping stage for what that data would look like
There should always be a primary source for any Full Fact claim check — it’s less of this is the right answer, and more of here are the options
Want to monitor how often people repeat something we’ve fact-checked (Trends): (also needs credentials)
(probably also needs credentials)