Users who turn to the reference seeking an important answer to a specific question, therefore, can never be sure what kind of authority lies behind any particular piece of information.
De Alfaro's solution is a software tool that automatically evaluates and indicates the trust value of each of Wikipedia's billions of words. "We are trying to provide a simple visual guide that shows how reliable the information on Wikipedia is," he says.
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