The Factual’s algorithm will provide Yahoo consumers with an analysis of news stories by rating articles with a media bias and credibility score To date, The Factual has graded over 10 million news ...

NEW YORK—In a notable example of how some tech companies are working to provide consumers with tools that will help them find credible news sources and reduce the spread of disinformation, Yahoo has ...

The goal of Factual is at once hugely ambitious and unexpectedly humble: to be the steward of the world’s information. That means amassing data on subjects about which people need data, standardizing ...

Yahoo announced the acquisition Tuesday of The Factual, a company that uses algorithms to rate the credibility of news sources. The transaction closed in late August, but the company announced the ...

News consumers today are confronted with a tangle of statements and assertions that run the gamut from purely factual to purely opinion. Being able to quickly tell where a news statement fits on that ...