@coryhaik

Truth Teller is a video fact-checking experience that aims to meet people where they are to answer their most pressing questions.

Truth Teller is only as good as its facts.

How does it work?

Where do the facts come from?

● They are written by Washington Post reporters or aggregated from credible fact checking sites and entered into our CMS.

● Our CMS, Word Press, then turns them into a database that a computer can interact with.

the politician’s statement

keywords inthat statement

so the metadata entered in these fields ... turn into these fields that a computer can interact with

Next, we get the video transcript.

Now, an algorithm looks for matches between the database of facts and the transcript.

Here’s what that match looks like.

This is the matching statement in the video transcript

This is the original fact-checked claim we had previously entered in the database.

From Prototype

To Beta

http://www.washingtonpost.com/posttv/local/vincent-orange-gives-defense-against-ethics-complaints/2014/03/06/994eb5b8-a579-11e3-b865-38b254d92063_video.html

To Production

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2014/03/07/fact-check-vincent-orange-claims-to-be-clean-in-produce-stand-interference/

http://www.texastribune.org/2014/02/24/truth-teller-ted-cruz/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/posttv/politics/truth-teller-the-time-chris-christie-lied-to-voters/2014/01/18/b60bf080-7fb8-11e3-93c1-0e888170b723_video.html

http://wapo.st/truthtrailers