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Understanding the promise and limits of automated fact-checking
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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 pu...
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- Published
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- Reviewed (other)
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- Publisher:
- Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism Publisher's website
- Series:
- Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism Factsheets
- Journal:
- Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism Journal website
- Publication date:
- 2018-02-28
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pubs:827145
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- pubs:827145
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- Deposit date:
- 2018-03-01
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- Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
- Copyright date:
- 2018
- Notes:
- This is the publisher's version of the report. The final version is available online from Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at: https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/our-research/mapping-online-news-discovery-computer-users-uk
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