Ask HN: What are some advanced fact check strategies
2 rudderdev 1 7/31/2025, 5:50:56 AM
I have been reading a lot of technology news lately from diverse sources and observed some patterns that are easy to verify - outdated info presented as news, misleading title, etc. On the other hand, some news pieces look credible but when I start to verify it leads to a dead-end (or at least nothing that wouldn't take hours to verify). Google's fact-check tool seems to work only on old and popular news only.
The case in point right now, this article: https://techxplore.com/news/2025-07-vulnerability-packet-paralyze-smartphones.html
* I did not find any other reputed source linking back to this article. * The site has decent domain authority. * Searched the publishing institute (KAIST) website with google search (https://www.google.com/search?q=LLFuzz+RCE+site:https://www.kaist.ac.kr/) and did find the original article (likely the original source)
So far so good. But the concerns are
1. Is this enough fact-checking, what other techniques am I missing? 2. This whole process takes time, are there any other known techniques/tools to further reduce the time to fact-check and analyze
You could've skipped this part by scrolling down and following the "More information" link.
> Is this enough fact-checking
Depends on which fact you wanted to check. If you want to verify that LLFuzz can indeed be used to find such vulnerabilities, you would need to run it yourself, which is currently impossible because https://github.com/SysSec-KAIST/LLFuzz is empty. It's probably true anyway, but not verifiable by fact checking.
> This whole process takes time, are there any other known techniques/tools to further reduce the time to fact-check and analyze
If you reduce your consumption of sources that require frequent fact checking and only check when it's very important to you to ensure that a fact is true, you can spend less time fact checking.