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The software, which was demonstrated to the Guardian, scans statements as they are made by politicians and instantly provides a verdict on their veracity. An early version relies on a database of several thousand manual fact-checks, but later versions will automatically access official data to inform the verdict. The researchers are co-operating with the Office of National Statistics on the project.
Full Fact said that both tools will be available in newsrooms by the end of this year, and launched to journalists and fact-checkers across the globe in 2018.
Hungarian financier spent $6 million (£4,644,000) to influence the 2014 European Parliament elections, his Open Society Foundations hoping to “mitigate the feared populist surge” and “limit the damage” it believed was caused by “xenophobic” and Eurosceptic campaigns. Breitbart London reported how Soros funded numerous projects to “monitor”, “shame” and “ridicule” what the group calls “hate speech” across Europe and that while attempting to stamp down on identity politics for Europeans, the organisation also sought to “amplify” ethnic minority votes in the elections.
originally posted by: Sillyolme
How is it a threat to free speech?
Honey the truth will set you free.
originally posted by: lordcomac
I wonder how much it will cost to buy a fact.
I mean, with a system like this there's no way it would be used to distort the truth, right?
originally posted by: odzeandennz
the president has his own news channel...
originally posted by: lordcomac
I wonder how much it will cost to buy a fact.
I mean, with a system like this there's no way it would be used to distort the truth, right?