Interesting. In the Nordics, we have a couple of sites dedicated to fact checking news stories, done by real people. I think these kinds of automated tools can be helpful too, but needs to be tied to reliable sources. This became pretty apparent to me with the tech news coverage of xz, too. Lots of accidental (or sometimes intentional?) misinformation being spread in news articles. I wrote about it a bit[0], it was pretty sad to see big international publishers publishing an article based entirely on the journalist's misunderstandings of the situation. Facts and truth is important, especially as we see gen AI furthering the amount of legitimate looking content online that might not actually be true.
[0] - https://open.substack.com/pub/thetechenabler/p/trust-in-brea...