Dhruv Ghulati
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Dhruv Ghulati founded one of the first global startups tackling online misinformation and is one of the first machine learning scientists to research automated fact-checking. He holds degrees in economics and computer science from the London School of Economics and University College London.
In the aftermath of the 2016 U.S. election, I set out to build a product that could tackle the scourge of fake news online. My initial hypothesis was simple: build a semi-automated fact-checking algorithm that could automatically highlight any false or dubious claim and suggest the best-quality contextual facts for it. Our thesis was clear, if perhaps utopian: If technology could drive people to seek truth, facts, statistics and data to make their decisions, we could build an online discourse of reason and rationality instead of hyperbole.
After five years of hard work, Factmata has had some successes. But for this space to t …
