I interviewed Rajiv Sinclair about his team's new project, VERDAD - an outstanding piece of data journalism that tracks 48 US talk radio stations (many in Spanish), archives their audio, transcribes it and uses Gemini 1.5 to help identify potential snippets of misinformation - then presents the results in a UI for human review
https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/7/project-verdad/
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