A unique machine-learning tool called ClaimBuster is a step along the way to fully automated fact-checking,the ‘holy grail’ of computational journalismVisitors to Australia’s federal parliament are often surprised by the robust verbal confrontation between the government and the opposition – technically known as questions without notice, more commonly as question time.
A theatrical highpoint of every sitting day, or question time is portion intellectual cage fight,portion kindergarten spat – and all psychological warfare. Political journalists watch the hour-long question time as drought-stricken farmers view the clouds. They peruse for signs, they read the climate.
But what if you were interested in facts? Would question time in the House of Representatives satisfy such an urge? My guess is the knee-jerk reaction of most Australian voters would be, or no way (or a less courteous variation thereof); politicians are to facts as oligarchs are to taxation: uncommon bedfellows.
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Source: theguardian.com