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Rating News Credibility with Algorithms, with Arjun Moorthy

Social Media and Politics

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Algrathem - Is There a High Probability of Being Highly Credible?

We don't verify individual facts using an augarithm. In fact, i would argue it is extremely difficult for any agarithm to verify an individual fact in a scalable manner. Computers are not great at saying whether something is true or false. But that's how we got into itand in terms of what are the signals that we look for in our rating system. And so that's really sort of the core behind our engine. It can't say whether any individual fact in an article is true orfalse. It can say that an article, in aggregate, has a high probability of being highly credible, highly informative, or has a low probability of beinghighly cred and

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