Stink-Detector

A San Diego startup is releasing a toolbar that’ll highlight in red phrases in a news story that violate journalistic ethical standards or (soon) that are suspiciously similar to official press releases.

Ordinarily I’d speculate on what sort of a similarity scoring algorithm they used to identify text cut-n-pasted from press releases but instead I’ll joke that all that red will be high on the eyes.

Clarification: I’m not joking.

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