Date: 08/29/06 (Java Web)    Keywords: no keywords

Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications is earmarking Y300 million in its 2007 budget to produce what the Asahi Shimbun terms a lie-detector for online information. It would be an automated fact-checker that draws on related information to spot how likely something is to be a load of bull. The Ministry envisages it being able [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/japan-government-funds-300-m-online-bulls-detector/