In the last few years, disinformation and fake news have been spreading throughout the world at rates never seen before, creating the need for fact-checking organizations. Despite many human-based fact-checking organizations that are currently in operation, disinformation continues to briskly spread throughout the internet, and the existing organizations are unable to keep up.
Automated fact checking refers to the process that seeks to verify factual information with the aim to promote veracity and correctness of the text.