The Ledger

Every statement that passed quotation and attribution checks. Mix any filter with any other: certainty 1/5, debate potential 5/5, or both at once.

clear all ✕

why aren't all 2 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't; assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card: ▮▮▮▮▮ certainty · ▮▮▮▮▮ debate potential. speakers are clickable

Disclosure
AppNexus leveraged Google's trillion-word corpus for domain word-splitting algorithms
“The data here is the Google trillion word corpus, right, where they scrape the entire internet, look for the frequencies of all the different strings, including misspellings, right, and that basically gives you a probability of any given string being, like, a …”
Catherine Williams Nov 20, 2014 ▶ 13:52 Michael Rubenstein and Catherine Williams, App Nexus // Data Driven #31 // Nov 2014
Disclosure
AppNexus previously relied on human auditors to detect adult content
“We had a team of human auditors who would literally just go look at websites and determine whether or not they were porn.”
Catherine Williams Nov 20, 2014 ▶ 11:02 Michael Rubenstein and Catherine Williams, App Nexus // Data Driven #31 // Nov 2014
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