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Fact-checkers use automation to maximize their impact
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Wednesday’s IFCN Talk highlighted the work of the Duke Reporters’ Lab’s automated fact-checking project, Squash, but as director Bill Adair noted, it’s far from the only fact-checking project using automation to fight falsehoods. Argentine fact-checking network Chequeado launched its automated fact-checking bot Chequeabot in 2018, which uses scans of transcripts from media organizations to help identify claims for fact-checkers. More recently, Spanish fact-checker Maldita.es has used automation to both speed up responses to fact-checking requests from its audience, and detect potential patterns in the types of falsehoods most commonly spread.