defacto-enrichment-public
Scripts and documentation for De Facto database enrichment.
ClaimReview Schema
The De Facto project's database aggregates fact-checks and makes them available via an RSS feed. Therefore, metadata attached to the fact-checks and the claims they investigate must be in JSON-LD format and follow the ClaimReview and MediaReview schemas, which are commonly used by fact-checkers. We depend as much as possible on the schemas' standards. However, enriched metadata from social media platforms requires the invention of some new ClaimReview properties and types, whose schema is documented on the AFP-Medialab GitHub repository.
Enrichment procedure
The enrichment relies on the Python library minall, which leverages the many platform-specific API client wrappers of minet to collect data about appearances of claims in the database.
See documentation here: https://medialab.github.io/minall/