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Check is an open source platform for collaborative fact-checking and media annotation.
The platform has supported some of the largest collaborative reporting initiatives on the internet. Organizations use Check to conduct their investigations and debunk misinformation.
Some examples:
- Elections: Journalists, academics and fact-checkers use Check for collaborative reporting on elections. We help these users verify incoming content in real-time.
- Open Source Investigations: Check allows members of the public to send content from social media and other online spaces to journalists working on investigative projects.
- Translation: Check allows teams to translate content to and from multiple languages, accommodating both native scripts and common romanizations like Arabizi. The Check interface is localized in multiple languages, including Portuguese, Spanish and Arabic.
- Analysis: Partnering with some of the most prestigious academic institutions in the world, Check facilitates rigorous research into the nature and evolution of misinformation.
This wiki serves as a guide to developers who are interested to start coding on Check. This typically means interacting with the Check API, which is introduced in the topics on the sidebar.
Short description of services that support the Check platform:
- Alegre: Language identification, text similarity and others text an media analysis
- Check API: The core API and CMS
- Check Mark: A browser extension
- Check Slack Bot: A Slack bot to interact with Check
- Check Web: Front-end web application
- Fetch: A FactCheck / Claim Review aggregation service
- Pender: Link parsing, archiving and rendering service
- Narcissus: Webpage screenshotting
To get started, it's best to understand the basics about Check's technical architecture, and to install it locally. You can find information about those topics on this repo's README.