Fact-checking organizations cannot keep pace with the volume of claims published online
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Evidence consistently shows that traditional, manual fact-checking organizations struggle and ultimately fail to keep pace with the sheer volume of claims published online, motivating the development of automated computational tools.
Evidence for · 3
Computational Fact Checking from Knowledge Networks
2015 · cited by 502
Traditional fact-checking by expert journalists cannot keep up with the enormous volume of information generated online.
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Performance of Large Language Models in the Cognitive Analysis of Misinformation: Evaluation Study.
2026 · cited by 0
Human moderators face significant challenges regarding scalability when attempting to keep pace with the volume of online misinformation.
Development and validation of a multi-agent AI pipeline for automated credibility assessment of tobacco misinformation: a proof-of-concept study.
2025 · cited by 0
Traditional manual fact-checking approaches are resource-intensive and unable to match the pace at which misinformation spreads online.