Testing the touchstone of technology rumors: Tracour

Recently, according to the "mobile new discovery" reported that human beings are now in the information explosion of the internet era, a variety of rich messages filled with people's lives, in the enjoyment of the information age of convenience, the problem is followed, that is how to identify a piece of information is true or FALSE. The Tracour, established by the Honesty Engine technical team, is a Web site that tracks technology rumors through database and statistical analysis tools, verifies the sources of technology rumours, and provides reasonable speculation about technology rumors.

Tracour collects technology rumors on the internet, binds rumours to its authors and publications, and classifies them by type. When a rumor is reported and the original author is identified, Tracour will put the rumor on the website, and the legality of the rumor is confirmed after the fact that the rumor is indeed true.

The potential value of tracour is that it is unrealistic for the general public to spend a lot of time validating the author, provenance, and authenticity of a message. And Tracour completed these tasks, although ordinary but significant. On the other hand, many reporters and bloggers will publish some "insider" news, but who can guarantee that they are authentic? It is well known that the media industry is highly competitive and tracour may become an objective and impartial platform for monitoring these media.

"Our site will never be fully automated without human intervention," says Brad Sams, Tracour's founding man. Although we are now looking for ways to reduce these onerous tasks. ”

Currently Tracour's web site has not been completed, such as the "Analysis" section of the page is not yet online, but the existing Web page has been very useful, can be predicted, when the Tracour site on the technology rumors more and more, huge database information will provide a very useful help to identify authenticity. (MK)