The challenges of automated fact-checking are strikingly similar to those faced by human fact-checkers, only magnified.

If this technology is so influential to everyone, the responsibility must extend beyond the user. The platforms themselves (the people behind the app) must rethink how they work.

The power of a probabilistic approach is clear: in an age of petabyte-scale data, the right approximation is often the only possible solution. How has the ability to get a "good enough" answer in real-time changed the way you approach software architecture or data analysis?

If you're an independent journalist ready to carve out your niche and build a loyal following, here is a playbook for supporting yourself in this new ecosystem.

This is where the cross between Artificial Intelligence (AI) and journalism becomes not just interesting, but essential. We have to stop thinking of AI as a replacement and start seeing it as an accelerator for the truth.