Related Fact Checks: a tool for combating fake news
This addresses the issue of misinformation for online readers, but is incremental as it builds on existing fact-checking tools.
The paper tackles the problem of fake news by introducing a 'Related Fact Checks' service that helps readers evaluate article veracity by retrieving relevant fact checks, and presents evaluation results from an implementation.
The emergence of "Fake News" and misinformation via online news and social media has spurred an interest in computational tools to combat this phenomenon. In this paper we present a new "Related Fact Checks" service, which can help a reader critically evaluate an article and make a judgment on its veracity by bringing up fact checks that are relevant to the article. We describe the core technical problems that need to be solved in building a "Related Fact Checks" service, and present results from an evaluation of an implementation.