Does Not Do Fact-Checking

It is that MagPunk lacks the ability to research whether a news item actually happened or whether the information is correct.

The system does not confirm the reality of the data (names, numbers, or events) in the outside world. The app only measures the statistical tone of words and the spreading speed of news in reference to each other. When a news item is produced entirely as a lie or fiction by the publisher source, the system cannot perceive this.

Example: The system counting a fabricated event as critical or viral in case it spreads with capital letters across ten different sources.

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Fact-checking requires journalistic principles, deep research, and often human judgment. Machine learning models learn data, not events. The classifier algorithm running on your device cannot detect the false because it does not know the truth. Testing accuracy is a demanding mental task that the reader must personally do by comparing different sources with each other (via the reports or reference clusters provided by MagPunk).