So, if you go to the Cofacts website and see the trending disinformation and its countermeasures, oftentimes you will see a bot providing the first-time response. And this solves a critical issue against foreign interference because the foreign information manipulators are professionals. They’re paid to do this, like, nine to six days a week. But the students’ fact-checkers, of course, work in their part-time. Although many, they’re not full-time working at this. But now they can help train a language model that works 24-7 to provide the first-line of defense.

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