In news-r/factcheck: Fact Check, Create Claims and More

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factcheck

Fact check publishers or queries, create claims and more with the Google FactCheck Toolbox.

Installation

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("news-r/factcheck")

Setup

Get a free key from the Google Console.

factcheck_key("xxXXxxXx")

Note that you can specify the FACTCHECK_API_KEY key as an environment variable in your .Renviron for convenience.

The above key will work for the fact_check function, other function to create, update, or delete your claims will require OAuth 2.0 authentication using fact_token.

ROADMAP

[x] Fact Check
[x] Authentication
[ ] Create claims
[ ] Get created claims
[ ] Delete created claims
[ ] Edit claims

Example

library(factcheck)

# Claims on Trump in English that are maximum 10 days old
fact_check("Trump", lang = "en-US", days_old = 10)

# Claims made on the New York Times
fact_check(publisher = "nytimes.com")