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Fast & Furious Fact Check Challenge

Background
Diane Francis is a US-born award-winning columnist, bestselling author, investigative journalist, television commentator, corporate director and screenplay writer currently living in Toronto, Canada and Manhattan. She is proud to sponsor the Fast & Furious Fact Check Challenge in partnership with HeroX. After 35 years of experience in journalism, Diane believes that transparency and curation of information are essential pillars to sustaining healthy democracies and societies. Throughout her journalistic career, Diane Francis has interviewed and written about hundreds of CEOs, billionaires, heads of state, international criminals, Interpol officials, “big thinkers” and academics. Affiliated with Singularity University, she wants to harness emerging technologies to help keep politics, public discourse and commerce honest.

The Problem
Information dominates our culture. With nearly everyone connected via the phone in their pocket, the general public is barraged with just about anything said by anyone, anywhere, anytime. This deluge of material makes it nearly impossible to know what is truth. Repeated information is often treated as accurate, a phenomenon that makes the spread of misinformation easier than ever, at the expense of the common good. A recent study showed that it takes 14 hours to debunk a false, online rumor. Unfortunately, virtually all inaccurate statements, slurs, fake news or hoaxes remain unchallenged and unchecked.

The truth and the accuracy of what we read, hear and see affects everything from our personal health to what we buy and who we vote for. Simply put: bad information inhibits healthy progress, and because of the sheer volume of information we're exposed to daily, it's only getting harder to know the difference.

Fact checking is the process of verifying what someone has said, and then receiving a rating about the accuracy of the ‘fact.’ Fact checking is a task performed by qualified humans. It's a labor-intensive, time-consuming process that is not easy, quick or comprehensive. There simply aren’t enough journalism researchers with the skills to verify all the claims made by our political candidates and other public figures. It often takes a day or more to verify the accuracy of statements, especially in the context that they were made. And as time elapses, the truth moves further and further away from us.

Are you up for the challenge and a $50,000.00 grand prize?

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