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Re:Show HN: Factifi – Real-Time Fact-Checking Content on Saturday July 26, 2025 @12:41AM (#44691393)
Biased towards whatever the hell someone wants to portray. Truth is no longer displayed, what’s displayed is only what you want. HN is one of the better platforms and so you can tell. What about the others where bots dominate?
Re:Show HN: Factifi – Real-Time Fact-Checking Content on Saturday July 26, 2025 @12:38AM (#44691380)
Thanks for proving our point for us. People will do whatever they want. Some of us are smart enough to check the truth, but most of us are not. There’s a need for fact checking and hopefully, people can come to a consensus on that.
Re:Show HN: Factifi – Real-Time Fact-Checking Content on Friday July 25, 2025 @11:45PM (#44691147)
lol we’re trying to prove that the internet is biased.
Re:Show HN: Factifi – Real-Time Fact-Checking Content on Friday July 25, 2025 @11:11PM (#44691013)
Okay, firstly you we use SEC and a few other datasets from Google and similar datasets. We filter them based on credibility. The research papers are pulled from a corpus called Semantic Scholar which is pretty high quality. We also do ArXiv and PubMed.

Show HN: Factifi – Real-Time Fact-Checking Content

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/factifi-ai-powered-real-t/ancncpgncdaicilplhhenaonpljlfmll

Hi HN — we built Factifi, a Chrome extension that does instant fact-checking on anything you’re reading or watching. Please keep in mind, this is just an MVP and will be buggy and fail.We were constantly pausing podcasts and Substack posts to ask, “Wait, is that actually true?”. After too many 30-minute Google rabbit holes, we decided to automate the work.What it does• Extracts claims from...

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