“People have long mused about live fact-checking on television, but this marked the first in-depth study. It revealed our product could have tremendous appeal — but we need to explain it better to our users.”
Users forward dubious messages to a chatbot; volunteer editors evaluate their credibility; the bot answers back to the user (and anyone wondering in the future).
News organizations’ audiences are increasingly moving from public social media to closed or semi-closed platforms like WhatsApp, Discord, and Facebook Groups. But there are still opportunities for good reporting on the communities we cover.
“We foolishly thought that harnessing the crowd was going to require fewer human resources, when in fact it required, at least at the micro level, more.”
“The other day there was big news in Bosnia. They said a Hooters had opened up in Sarajevo…But we didn’t even get the chance to mock the sexist business model of the place — first we had to correct the facts. Which is, that it wasn’t a real Hooters at all.”
Wang, Shan. "Google News gets an update, with more AI-driven curation, more labeling, more reader controls (fingers crossed for no AI flops)." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 9 May. 2018. Web. 3 Jun. 2023.
APA
Wang, S. (2018, May. 9). Google News gets an update, with more AI-driven curation, more labeling, more reader controls (fingers crossed for no AI flops). Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved June 3, 2023, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2018/05/google-news-gets-an-update-with-more-ai-driven-curation-more-labeling-more-reader-controls-fingers-crossed-for-no-ai-flops/
Chicago
Wang, Shan. "Google News gets an update, with more AI-driven curation, more labeling, more reader controls (fingers crossed for no AI flops)." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified May 9, 2018. Accessed June 3, 2023. https://www.niemanlab.org/2018/05/google-news-gets-an-update-with-more-ai-driven-curation-more-labeling-more-reader-controls-fingers-crossed-for-no-ai-flops/.
Wikipedia
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