| Autor: |
Hassan, Naeemul, Zhang, Gensheng, Arslan, Fatma, Caraballo, Josue, Jimenez, Damian, Gawsane, Siddhant, Hasan, Shohedul, Joseph, Minumol, Kulkarni, Aaditya, Nayak, Anil Kumar, Sable, Vikas, Li, Chengkai, Tremayne, Mark |
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Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment; August 2017, Vol. 10 Issue: 12 p1945-1948, 4p |
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Our society is struggling with an unprecedented amount of falsehoods, hyperboles, and half-truths. Politicians and organizations repeatedly make the same false claims. Fake news floods the cyberspace and even allegedly influenced the 2016 election. In fighting false information, the number of active fact-checking organizations has grown from 44 in 2014 to 114 in early 2017. 1Fact-checkers vet claims by investigating relevant data and documents and publish their verdicts. For instance, PolitiFact.com, one of the earliest and most popular fact-checking projects, gives factual claims truthfulness ratings such as True, Mostly True, Half true, Mostly False, False, and even "Pants on Fire". In the U.S., the election year made fact-checking a part of household terminology. For example, during the first presidential debate on September 26, 2016, NPR.org's live fact-checking website drew 7.4 million page views and delivered its biggest traffic day ever. |
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