Truths and Lies on the Internet
There is a lot of information on the WWW and
it is a problem knowing what is true and what is false.
Here are some relatively new attempts to tackle the problem:
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Truth Finding on the Deep Web
Resolving conflicting information over a set of data sources.
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Hypothes.is
Proposed distributed, open-source platform
for the collaborative evaluation of information on the Internet.
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Truth Goggles
A first attempt at creating a credibility layer for the Internet.
And here are a couple of old standbys for fact checking
statements on the Internet and elsewhere:
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Snopes.com
The definitive source for all sorts of misinformation
on the internet, including a nice search facility.
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PolitiFact
Sorting out the truth in politics (with the Truth-O-Meter).
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FactCheck.org
Project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center
to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics.