App Tries to Name, Shame Campaign Ads
Political advertisements contain finely-constructed verbiage meant to drive certain aspects of an individual or party while tactfully hiding others. The Super PAC App, created by a pair of former MIT students, hopes to drown out the noise and verify the facts by filtering the information with the help of "audio fingerprinting." Dan Siegel, one of the app's co-creators, explained to CNN that the app itself does not do the fact-checking, but cross-references the information with an audio database using TuneSat's monitoring technology — like Shazam, but for politics. Once identified, the app will display details like what parties are involved with the commercial, how much money the party has raised, and how much they've spent during its... Continue reading…
App Tries to Name, Shame Campaign Ads
A new app can tell you who's to blame for presidential-campaign ads.
Fri 24 Aug 12 from Discovery.com
New App Detects Lies From Political Ads
Deep pocketed political donors are out in full force spreading lies about political candidates. Now, a new app, the Super PAC App, will fact check ads on-the-fly. Much like multi-media tagging ...
Wed 22 Aug 12 from TechCrunch
Super PAC App for iPhone and iPad filters out the noise in political ads
Political advertisements contain finely-constructed verbiage meant to drive certain aspects of an individual or party while tactfully hiding others. The Super PAC App, ...
Wed 22 Aug 12 from The Verge
New app tells you when political ads lie
What if every political ad came with a "truthiness" disclaimer?
Wed 22 Aug 12 from CNN
'Super PAC App' listens to and identifies ads, separates fact from fiction
A new mobile app, released Wednesday, is designed to emulate Shazam and SoundHound, which allow users to hold their devices up to a speaker to "listen to" and identify the song title ...
Thu 23 Aug 12 from Examiner
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