Three businesses help users find trustworthy information

July 10, 2020
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As we all struggle to make sense of the flood of disinformation and misinformation in digital media, some entrepreneurs are developing businesses to help us identify the good stuff, the credible stuff. At the heart of one of the three business models is transparency–full disclosure–to increase our trust of particular media. And the other two […]

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More routine journalism is being done by robots; is that good?

March 17, 2020
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The Associated Press and other news organizations have been using robots for several years to produce routine articles on finance and sports. Long before that, automated weather reports were being used by news agencies. All three of these types of reporting rely on structured databases with ample historical information that can be transformed into text. […]

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