ProjectFib

Looking at the code, it does less than is claimed. The add-on scrapes a Facebook page and calls their server. All the real work is in [1]. There seem to be just two tests, both applied to images - 1) is it an "adult" image, and 2) if it has text, does the text match the indicated Twitter feed? It uses some Microsoft Project Oxford APIs to do all the image work. There's an "adult image" test API, and an OCR API. [1] https://github.com/anantdgoel/HackPrincetonF16/blob/master/b...

Man this code sucks. `detectAdultContent()` returns True if there is no adult content. And I'm not sure what adult content has to do with truth? https://github.com/anantdgoel/HackPrincetonF16/blob/1f5e7bb4... They also have imports inside of functions :-/

No. Google is fooled by fake news too. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/googles-top-search-result-for-fi... I have some problem with those claims that offer little to none details. Use the above link as an example, how do we teach machine to verify this news? First, we need to teach them to formulate a question, in this case, 'Who has a larger number of popular vote [as of now]?', then it needs to find its way to verify the number from reliable sources, possibly need to struggle between conflicted sources as well. This is no trivial, if we solve this, we might as well solve the problem of understanding human language as a whole. The mentioning of Princeton students' Hackthon project is really offbeat, if the author really bothers to look into what that project actually is, nothing more than an API mashup. https://github.com/anantdgoel/HackPrin

Coincidentally I just read an article about the idea being implemented during a Hackathon at Princeton very recently [0]. Four students put together a very intelligent AI in 36 (!!) hours to verify articles posted on FB for truth, using the term AI lightly of course. They've also open sourced their project since then [1]. Obligatory chrome extension link [2]. [0] - http://www.sfgate.com/technology/businessinsider/article/It-... [1] - https://github.com/anantdgoel/HackPrincetonF16 [2] - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fib/ofpheinlpjdffp...