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Technology near for real-time TV political fact checks
ap ^ | 1/18/2019 | DAVID BAUDER

Posted on 01/18/2019 5:10:21 PM PST by mdittmar

NEW YORK (AP) — A Duke University team expects to have a product available for election year that will allow television networks to offer real-time fact checks onscreen when a politician makes a questionable claim during a speech or debate.

The mystery is whether any network will choose to use it.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


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LOL!,ain't gonna happen.

Can you imagine the scroll on the T.V. when Democrat Candidates are speaking;)

1 posted on 01/18/2019 5:10:21 PM PST by mdittmar
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To: mdittmar

Who checks the (false) fact checkers ..... when a democrat is speaking?


2 posted on 01/18/2019 5:13:13 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (The democrats' national goal: One world social-communism under one world religion: Atheistic Islam.)
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Most media “fact checks” that I have seen only rate whether a politician sticks to the narrative or not. They don’t actually check whether the politician is factual.

An example of this is when someone displays skepticism about anthropogenic climate change. They will be deemed as untruthful, when in reality, they are merely failing to promote the leftist agenda.


3 posted on 01/18/2019 5:16:55 PM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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> LOL!, ain’t gonna happen. <

Oh, but it will happen. And it will slant Democrat.

Trump: 1+1=2.
Fact Checker: Lie! Because in base 2, 1+1=10.

Democrat candidate: The moon is made of green cheese.
Fact Checker: True! Because somewhere some moon might be made of green cheese.


4 posted on 01/18/2019 5:18:42 PM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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They should have a voting system like on that one episode of ‘The Orville’


5 posted on 01/18/2019 5:21:00 PM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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“Can you imagine the scroll on the T.V. when Democrat Candidates are speaking;)“

You wouldn’t even be able to see them, the entire screen would be filled with words. Good.


6 posted on 01/18/2019 5:31:10 PM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.”)
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Burgers a Mile High...

DING, DING, DING, IMPEACH!


7 posted on 01/18/2019 5:33:59 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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All the Facts that comport with the Liberal World View!


8 posted on 01/18/2019 5:52:01 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Trump 2020 - Re-Elect the M*****F***er!)
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Also, on a not related note. If we can have instant replay
on the football field, why not congress?


9 posted on 01/18/2019 6:06:47 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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Luckily algore invented the internet;)


10 posted on 01/18/2019 6:15:21 PM PST by mdittmar
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LOL. The problem with “fact checking” is no one is checking the “fact checkers”. They’re all crooks and liars.


11 posted on 01/18/2019 7:22:53 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: Kickass Conservative
Burgers a Mile High...

DING, DING, DING, IMPEACH!

A hamburger is 2" thick. President Trump clearly was talking about hamberders which are about 5' tall.

12 posted on 01/18/2019 7:26:38 PM PST by Drew68 (Eating hamberders, drinking covfefe. MAGA!)
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I predicted this would happen. With AI technology, anything that is said will go into interpretation and fact check software.


13 posted on 01/18/2019 7:42:21 PM PST by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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Fact check: 300 2 inch hamburgers equals 50 feet when stacked (not giving to effect of crushing).


14 posted on 01/18/2019 7:45:14 PM PST by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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As a technologist with familiarity in natural language processing, this won't be a fact checker. It will instead be a Democrat party meme machine designed to pick up on keywords. It will be preprogrammed to spit out a Democrat meme any time a Republican talks about a known topic.

It will be easy to fool it and show how stupid and biased it is. He can point out in advance that the Dem meme is that "immigrants" don't commit more crime than other groups before he emphasizes illegal. Then state some facts like these https://cis.org/Report/Immigration-and-Crime then wait for the "Real time fact check", then point out that it refers to all immigrants, not illegal.

Or he could simply change terminology like saying that large phyiscal obstacls actually do stop most people trying to cross Illegally from our neighbor to the south into Texas, NM, Arizona and California. Then the real time fact checker won't hear "wall" or "Mexico" and won't spit out any meme.

15 posted on 01/18/2019 7:50:51 PM PST by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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