The US Presidential Elections has shone a spotlight on the urgent fight against disinformation. Facticity was put to the test during the recent U.S. presidential debate, checking nearly 250 claims in real-time.
Humbled that citizen journalists like him in the US are using www.Facticity.AI to speak truth to power in a way that can 20X the number of fact-checks that are done to reduce errors of omission or perceptions of bias. And it is 10-100X faster too, which could help reduce saliency bias!
The power of the Facticity platform was on full display during the debate. While Facticity provided 20x the fact-checking performance of competitors, the platform still benefits greatly from human supervision. For this debate, two people monitored both the platform and the debate simultaneously to ensure accuracy. In this sense, Facticity complements current fact-checking procedures but doesn’t fully replace the need for human fact-checkers. Read more... — Jacob Kozhipatt
Image Credit: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Hussman School of Journalism and Media / Professors Daniel Kreiss, Shannon McGregor, Meredith D. Clark. (11 September 2024)
Incredibly humbled and honored to have Professors of Communication Daniel Kreiss, Shannon McGregor, and Meredith D. Clark from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill use our almost real-time fact-checking dashboard for their US Presidential Debate watch party. Daniel has written an important work of social criticism on taking back the country from Networked Politics and I would love to continue the conversation about how the medium could be the message and how we can best promote objective and dialectical thinking.
People have been telling us how much more complete and fast our fact-checking platform has been which can contribute to reducing omission bias and saliency bias. So glad to be writing this from one of the homes of liberal democracy, let's use AI to speak Truth to Power and break out of the attention economy and Panglossian Neoliberalism together.