With the flood of misinformation saturating social media, there are too many claims and not enough human fact-checkers to do the tedious work required. Can automation help with fact-checking?
Fact-checking organizations around the globe have been developing systems that automate or use artificial intelligence to streamline and accelerate elements of the fact-checking process. On Friday, GlobalFact 9, an annual fact-checking conference held this year in Oslo, Norway, hosted a panel to discuss the future of automated fact-checking.