NYT: "truth predictor" software is in the works

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The head of Google, Eric Schmidt, is cautioning politicians stuck in the sound-bite era that "truth predictor" software is in the works so that computer-wise voters will be instantaneously able to check on the probability, if not the certainty, of what candidates claim as fact. Actually, careful parsing of egregiously misleading campaign ads is already available on the Web at factcheck.org, a nonprofit service that thinks voters should be treated as intelligent consumers entitled to the plain facts. If only the candidates saw it that way.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102006J.shtml