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Understanding the promise and limits of automated fact-checking
- Abstract:
- This factsheet gives an overview of current efforts to automatically police false claims and misleading content online. Our findings suggest that while fully automated fact-checking remains a distant goal, AFC platforms now in development can help journalists to track false claims across the media landscape and to respond as quickly as possible. Further progress depends on continuing academic and charitable support for basic research, for real-world experiments, and for initiatives to make public information available as structured data that automated platforms can use.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Reviewed (other)
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.60625/risj-nqnx-bg89
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- Publisher:
- Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
- Series:
- RISJ Factsheets
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
- Publication date:
- 2018-02-28
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English
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pubs:827145
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uuid:f321ff43-05f0-4430-b978-f5f517b73b9b
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827145
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2018-03-01
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- Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
- Copyright date:
- 2018
- Rights statement:
- Published by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and supported by Google and the Digital News Initiative. This report can be reproduced under the Creative Commons licence CC BY.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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