I admit I love the name of this fact checking outfit in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Chequeado.
It means verified, and that is exactly what this group does, and how we need it.
Information moves fast. Politicians at the highest levels contradict themselves. Some even claim that what they said previously did not happen! What is a journalist to do in this type of news covering environment.
That is why I am excited to read about Chequeado, since the technology that can identify fact-checkable statements from video transcripts could soon deliver fact-checkable statements . That’s where Chequeado comes in. It is starting to share Chequeabot’s code with the public on GitHub.
As a result, anyone with some programming know-how will be able to use the technology in their newsroom, down to the dashboard that displays statements to fact check during their Monday editorial meetings. The team also plans to share the software with which they scraped closed captions from YouTube videos, facilitating the transcription process.
Chequeado describes itself as “the verification of public discourse”. It even includes a hashtag #falsoenlasredes, which means #falseontheweb. In a recent edition, Chequeado declared photos of a newborn said to be the child of a 12-year-old mother who had undergone a C section, to be false.
I urge you to take a look at what Chequeado does.
Bienvenido, Chequeado!
Read the article:
Chequeado is teaming up with citizens and robots to expand the fact-checking universe
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