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Posts tagged facts
Postmodernism and “post-truth”
The point of postmodernism is not and was never “there are no facts”, the denial of an objective reality. The point is that facts are unevenly distributed across a metamedium which distributes half-facts and falsehoods with equal facility. The point is that the whole-truth-and-nothing-but-the-truth objective reality is by definition inaccessible to the subjective experience of individuals; there is far too much to know for any one individual to know it all. The point is that he who controls the distribution of stories controls the stories themselves.
via http://www.velcro-city.co.uk/postmodernism-and-post-truth/
Introducing Factmata — Artificial intelligence for automated fact-checking
Over the course of the next few months, we will be launching a prototype of the research already completed in statistical fact checking and claim detection. So far, our work has been in identifying claims in text by the named entities they contain, what economic statistics those claims are about, and verifying if they are “fact-checkable”. At the moment, we can only check claims that can be validated by known statistical databases — we built our system on Freebase (an fact database that came out of Wikipedia’s knowledge graph), and will be migrating it to new databases such as EUROSTAT and the World Bank Databank.
People that say facts are facts. They’re not really facts.There’s no such thing, unfortunately, anymore as facts.
“People that say facts are facts. They’re not really facts.There’s no such thing, unfortunately, anymore as facts.”