fact-checker
Americannoun
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I then instruct the fact-checker to build a table that lists all the facts it’s checking and mark each one as “true,” “false,” “ambiguous” or “unsupported.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
"Grok has been around for a while. It is suddenly popular now with Indians because it's the new toy in town," says Pratik Sinha, founder of Alt News, a leading fact-checker in India.
From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2025
To make sure it wasn’t stretching the truth in order to be more persuasive, the researchers hired a professional fact-checker to evaluate 128 of the bot’s claims about a variety of conspiracies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2024
Guest: Tariq Kenney-Shawa, U.S. policy fellow at Al-Shabaka and an editor and fact-checker for AJ+.
From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2024
Many of the fact-checker groups were founded by dedicated individuals, such as MyGoPen, whose founder Charles Yeh started the chatbot service because he found his relatives would get confused by online rumors.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 26, 2024
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