Tech | February 01, 2013 | 24 comments

No More Political Lies? Real-Time Lie Detection Service Debuting

source: http://www.care2.com/causes/no-more-lies-real-time-lie-detection-service-debuting-now.html

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A step in the good direction! Something like this should be mandatory for all political debates, and "news" conferences, etc.

Remember when Mitt Romney declared during the first Presidential debate, “I will not, under any circumstances, raise taxes on middle-income families?” Later, in the same debate, he stated that “pre-existing conditions are covered under my [health care] plan.”

Didn’t you want to jump up and scream “liar” at him? Especially since neither President Obama nor Jim Lehrer seemed willing to challenge Romney on anything.

Until now, we’ve relied on some excellent sites such as Annenberg Public Policy Center’s FactCheck.org, the St. Petersburg Times and Congressional Quarterly’s PolitiFact and the Washington Post’s Fact Checker blog to examine outrageous claims and let us know, after the fact, that our politicians were lying, or bending the truth.

Now the Washington Post’s “Truth Teller” will denounce those lies in as close to real time as possible. Built by the Post with funding from Knight Foundation’s Prototype Fund, Truth Teller is a prototype of a news application, created in just three months.

Truth Teller is a fully automated fact-checking program that displays “TRUE” or “FALSE” in real time next to video of politicians and pundits as they speak.

Check out a demonstration: (video at link)
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