Putting this all together, automated fact checking and contextualization algorithms have a lot of potential, but instead of relying on simplistic machine learning algorithms, their creators need ...

If fact-checking focused more attention on an unreliable story, the algorithm might view it as positive reinforcement of the article and cause it to be ranked higher on average.

Students could flowchart these algorithms or write them in pseudocode and then peer assess/evaluate them for efficiency.

ATHENS — A Greek university student is trying to build an algorithm to help journalists, fact-checkers, and regular news consumers make an assessment on the trustworthiness of an article before it’s ...

Meta shocked the tech world this week by moving to overhaul its approach to fact checking. Here's what the changes mean for social media users.

Network scientists have developed a new computational method that can leverage any body of knowledge to aid in the complex human task of fact-checking. In multiple experiments, the automated ...

Google has rejected the European Unions request to integrate fact-checking into its search algorithms, despite new regulations aimed at combating online misinformation.