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Can robots help us fact-check?
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Can robots help us fact-check?

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are scheduled to debate each other for the first time on Sept. 10. Presuming it happens – Trump has suggested he might skip it – moderators and independent fact-checkers at news outlets the world over will be looking to hold the candidates accountable for their claims. So we decided to test four AI-powered fact-checking services to see if they’re up to the task of sifting fact from fiction in future debates.

Election officials display a ballot paper while sorting and counting votes after polls close at a polling station during Zambia's general elections.
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The mineral-rich southern African nation of Zambia is slipping into political crisis following last week’s disputed election, in which incumbent President Hakainde Hichilema won a second five-year term.