Full Fact awarded $500,000 to build automated factchecking tools
Full Fact, the UK's independent, non-partisan factchecking organisation has secured $500,000 in funding for two new automated tools to transform factchecking and the international battle against fake news. They are called LIVE and TRENDS.
Both tools will be based on one powerful and modular factchecking engine. Key factcheckers from around the world will be able to plug in custom components that make their work more effective.
The game-changing investment comes from the Omidyar Network, the leading philanthropic investment firm established by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and Open Society Foundations, the largest philanthropic funder of human rights in the world, founded by George Soros.
https://fullfact.org/blog/2017/jun/awarded-500000-omidyar-network-open-society-foundations-automated-factchecking/