Scaling up fact checking: AI's role

John Leonard
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Andy Dudfield of Full Fact
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Andy Dudfield of Full Fact

Full Fact's automation chief Andy Dudfield on the web-scale challenge of correcting misinformation

A lie is halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on. This famous aphorism has never felt more apt, but who coined it? That is less clear. Similar adages bemoaning the human prope...

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