This story is four months old, so the inventor has probably been killed by now, but this was something we could have really made good use of during the (s)election season.

MIT grad student builds online 'lie detector'

November 24, 2011 6:13pm

The next time politicians or other officials make self-serving or suspicious claims, an Internet equivalent of “truth goggles” may soon be set up to flag such claims.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab graduate student Dan Schultz is working on software that can highlight false claims in online articles.

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