Tag: Sunlight Foundation

Earlier today the Sunlight Foundation unveiled its Churnalism tool, which is essentially an open-source plagiarism search engine. reported by The Atlantic, [Churnalism] will scan any text (a news article, e.g.) and compare it with a corpus of press releases and Wikipedia entries. If it finds similar language, you’ll get a…

One of the things I’ve long wondered about all those shady third-party political action groups that have sprung up in the wake of Citizens United is where exactly they get their funding from. It’s no secret billionaires like the Koch brothers and Sheldon Adelson have spent millions of dollars to…