@coryhaik
Truth Teller is a video fact-checking experience that aims to meet people where they are to answer their most pressing questions.
Truth Teller is only as good as its facts.
How does it work?
Where do the facts come from?
● They are written by Washington Post reporters or aggregated from credible fact checking sites and entered into our CMS.
● Our CMS, Word Press, then turns them into a database that a computer can interact with.
the politician’s statement
keywords inthat statement
so the metadata entered in these fields ... turn into these fields that a computer can interact with
Next, we get the video transcript.
Now, an algorithm looks for matches between the database of facts and the transcript.
Here’s what that match looks like.
This is the matching statement in the video transcript
This is the original fact-checked claim we had previously entered in the database.
From Prototype
To Beta
To Production
http://www.washingtonpost.com/posttv/politics/truth-teller-the-time-chris-christie-lied-to-voters/2014/01/18/b60bf080-7fb8-11e3-93c1-0e888170b723_video.html