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26 Sep, 2012

Sarasota Patch interview

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Mark is interviewed about WeCheck. describing how the idea came to him when he annotated an editorial by Nicolas Kristof in the New York Times. The siteĀ is an online version of that manual process, allowing users to tag speeches and articles for common logical fallacies, and so dig deeper into theĀ truth of political statements.

At first I wasn’t thinking ‘fact checking,’ I just wanted to find out whether it was true or not…I have good faith in the people.Ā There’s enough people out there that are out to find the truth than for the political aspect.

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