How Algorithms Create and Prevent Fake News: Exploring the Impacts of Social Media, Deepfakes, GPT-3, and More

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9. Tools for Truth

Fact-Checking Resources for Journalists and You

Noah Giansiracusa¹  

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Acton, MA, USA

 

Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.

—Jonathan Swift, 1710

This chapter starts by discussing a collection of publicly available (and mostly free) fact-checking tools that are powered by machine learning; this is to help you know what kinds of tools are available and to provide some insight into how they work. It concludes with a brief ...