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On the internet no-one knows you\u2019re a dog. And no-one knows whether that \u201cfact\u201d you\u2019re reading \u2014 say, about President Putin\u2019s pet dog having been trained to cock its leg at the word \u201ctrump\u201d \u2014 is bona fide truth or more nonsense FAKE NEWS doing the rounds on Facebook.<\/p>\n
All we can be really sure is that fake news has legs and runs at a blisteringly fast clip these days, thanks to massive engagement across vast social platforms engineered for digital spreading. In short, it\u2019s a disorienting time for anyone trying to triangulate truth amid all these sneaking lies.<\/p>\n
Which is where Storyzy<\/a>\u00a0wants to help out \u2014 with a just-launched quote verifier tool <\/a>which, while it\u2019s unlikely to be able to provide copper-bottomed reassurance for more obscure quotations across the full gamut of online media, might at least be able to give a thumbs up or down on words (apparently) uttered by higher-profile individuals, such as politicians, who are both widely covered in the mainstream media and widely targeted as the subjects of hoaxes.<\/p>\n Much socially spread fake news can hardly be accused of being subtle in its deceptions \u2014 indeed, wilder claims appear to be favored as a baiting strategy to spark more clicks \u2014 so mainstream quotation checking feels like a sensible place to try to fight back against mass misinformation.<\/p>\n The tool, which uses natural language processing to harvest quotations from its trusted media sources, is the work of a French team. They actually started on their idea back in 2012 \u2014 under a different name and with the rather more ambitious aim of building an \u201cautomated fact checking add on\/overlay on every website,\u201d says CEO and co-founder Stan Motte. An idea that was clearly a bit too ambitious. Hence resetting to focus on verifying quotations.<\/p>\n \u201cWe came to the conclusion that quotes are the only part of the news we can automatize at very large volumes and without any grey areas\/discussions: \u201cDid they say it or not?\u201d, and the proof provided in every case (the source),\u201d he says, via email.<\/p>\n They\u2019re using a database of 5,000 \u2014 in their words \u2014 \u201creliable sources\u201d from the mainstream media for verifying quotes (they display the source as part of the quote check). And, yes, their sources include The New York Times.\u00a0So this tool is not going to please anyone who accuses the mainstream media of embedded bias\u2026<\/p>\n The failing @nytimes<\/a> writes total fiction concerning me. They have gotten it wrong for two years, and now are making up stories sources!<\/p>\n \u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 6, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n But, in all truth, such folks probably aren\u2019t the sort to think of using a quotation verifying tool in the first place.<\/p>\n The Fake News Media works hard at disparaging demeaning my use of social media because they don’t want America to hear the real story!<\/p>\n\n
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