# fact checker (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover fact checker. Page: Feed: --- ## [Transformers, deep learning](https://dcorney.com/thoughts/8888/01/05/transformers.html) _8888-01-05 · David Corney_ (Not NLP-specific work.) Things I want to learn: Transformer architecture TensorFlow and alternatives conditional random fields ## [NLP, language models, linguistics](https://dcorney.com/thoughts/8888/01/04/NLP.html) _8888-01-04 · David Corney_ Things I know about: language models BERT Things I want to know (more) about: BERT alternatives - mT5, GPT3 ## [Digital Media and (modern) journalism](https://dcorney.com/thoughts/8888/01/03/digital-media.html) _8888-01-03 · David Corney_ https://www.journalismaifestival.com/ Seminar: most journalists are NOT technical, often have slow take up of new tech. So they’re cautious of AI tools. A few pioneers may embrace them, but things spread slowly within newsrooms. Should therefore involve editorial in decisions about AI tech early on. AI = NLP for analysis; synthetic text; finding patterns in data faster than people can; article… ## [Plans for notes about ideas](https://dcorney.com/thoughts/8888/01/01/ideas.html) _8888-01-01 · David Corney_ So new plan (from December 2020): I want to raise my public profile as an expert in using NLP/AI for digital news analysis, especially around trust, verification, misinformation etc. I want to identify a series of areas and become an expert in them: read key papers, make notes on them (hereish), share findings with colleagues. And I want to raise my profile through regular blogging, engaged… ## [Data Feminism, bias detection](https://dcorney.com/thoughts/8888/01/01/data-ethics.html) _8888-01-01 · David Corney_ Notes from the book “Data Feminism” and related sources I’m slowly reading Data Feminism, by Catherin D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein. It’s good - lots of it is eye-opening to me, as it shows data science from a perspective other than my own. Matrix of domination (p.15): Four domains of domination structural Plans and policies hegemonic cultural disciplinary enforcement interpersonal invidival… ## [Jason Arday plagiarized other researchers' DATA – and the journal helped him cover it up](https://validscience.substack.com/p/jason-arday-plagiarized-other-researchers) _2026-08-04 · José Duarte · Valid Science by José Duarte, PhD_ Sociology should be dissolved until we can train some actual sociologists ## [Climate consensus research is the worst, most invalid research ever published in journals](https://validscience.substack.com/p/climate-consensus-research-is-the) _2026-07-13 · José Duarte · Valid Science by José Duarte, PhD_ And social "scientists" use it to mislead participants ## [McKibben's "terrifying" abuse of a calculator in Rolling Stone](https://validscience.substack.com/p/mckibbens-terrifying-abuse-of-a-calculator) _2026-06-04 · José Duarte · Valid Science by José Duarte, PhD_ What are the odds of the earth still being a planet next month? ## ["Why isn't everyone a leftist like us?"](https://validscience.substack.com/p/why-isnt-everyone-a-leftist-like) _2026-04-27 · José Duarte · Valid Science by José Duarte, PhD_ When social psychologists' own cognitive dissonance drives their politically rigged research ## [Open science, ese! Check an infamous scientific fraud case yourself](https://validscience.substack.com/p/open-science-ese-check-an-infamous) _2026-03-09 · José Duarte · Valid Science by José Duarte, PhD_ I posted the code and data for you ## [Crush Every Threat in Real Time (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/PaD0C52SPrUt) _2026-03-09 · **Sponsored**_ One agent for real-time detection, exposure tracking, and active defense. ## [We can measure media reliability, and we should](https://validscience.substack.com/p/we-can-measure-media-reliability) _2026-02-26 · José Duarte · Valid Science by José Duarte, PhD_ The Free Press is 99.3% reliable, while the Daily Wire, Fox News, and the Washington Post are 99.1%, 98.2% and 82.4% reliable, respectively. ## [What I've learned researching the emotion of envy](https://validscience.substack.com/p/what-ive-learned-researching-the) _2026-01-27 · José Duarte · Valid Science by José Duarte, PhD_ My empirical work mostly focused on the emotion of envy. ## [Jay Bhattacharya keeps falsely claiming that he can't terminate ideologically-driven grants at NIH](https://validscience.substack.com/p/jay-bhattacharya-keeps-falsely-claiming) _2025-12-16 · José Duarte · Valid Science by José Duarte, PhD_ The courts merely require specific reasons for terminations – just give those reasons ## [I worked at NIH to eliminate ideological bias in taxpayer-funded research – here's what happened](https://validscience.substack.com/p/i-worked-at-nih-to-eliminate-ideological) _2025-11-24 · José Duarte · Valid Science by José Duarte, PhD_ This year I worked as a senior advisor to the NIH Director, Jay Bhattacharya. ## [A bizarre $75,000 bet challenge](https://validscience.substack.com/p/a-bizarre-75000-bet-challenge) _2025-11-07 · José Duarte · Valid Science by José Duarte, PhD_ An academic tries to redeem his invalid COVID masking study by offering to bet that his friends will say it's good ## [What happens when "LLM grooming" fills an "information void"?](https://dcorney.com/thoughts/2025/06/18/voids-grooming.html) _2025-06-18 · David Corney_ I want to discuss two concepts around mis-/disinformation and what happens if they mix. LLM Grooming This is when a coordinated network of websites and social media accounts is used to push a particular narrative at a massive scale. Unlike typical disinformation campaigns, the target is not (directly) people, but rather search engine web crawlers and the scraper bots that collect training data for… ## [Does using LLMs as fact checkers make things better or worse?](https://dcorney.com/thoughts/2024/12/19/ai-factcheckers-considered-harmful.html) _2024-12-19 · David Corney_ TL;DR: Worse. I’ve been developing AI tools to support (human) fact checkers for several years now. The tools that Full Fact produces are now used every day by fact checkers around the world to help monitor the media and find claims that might be worth checking, and to find repeats of known falsehoods. This helps them to hold powerful people to account and to push back against misinformation. But… ## [What cognitive science teaches us about AI and vice versa](https://dcorney.com/thoughts/2024/10/28/ai-for-cognitive-science.html) _2024-10-28 · David Corney_ I recently came across a new paper 1 making a bold claim: that machine learning will never lead to actual artificial intelligence. Not just that AGI is hard, but rather that it is provably impossible to achieve through ML. It’s a bold claim because it flies in the face of so many big announcements in recent years from OpenAI, Google and many others, who claim that as machine learning is used to… ## [Factuality, LLMs and fact checking](https://dcorney.com/thoughts/2024/08/28/factuality.html) _2024-08-28 · David Corney_ A few months after ChatGPT was launched, I joined a group of academics and practitioners with expertise in the intersection of disinformation, fact checking and AI. We were all concerned that making these new generative AI tools widely available would lead to a proliferation of false information online that would be hard to distinguish from reliable information. We spent some time discussing our…