Meta Is Building an AI to Fact-Check Wikipedia--All 6.5 Million Articles

Most people older than 30 probably remember doing research with good old-fashioned encyclopedias. You'd pull a heavy volume from the shelf, check the index for your topic of interest, then flip to the appropriate page and start reading. It wasn't as easy as typing a few words into the Google search bar, but on the plus side, you knew that the information you found in the pages of the Britannica or the World Book was accurate and true. The overwhelming multitude of sources was confusing enough, but add the proliferation of misinformation and it's a wonder any of us believe a word we read online. Wikipedia is a case in point.