Articles
Guides and analysis on agentage.news
Twelve in-depth articles by Zoltán Varga. Each one answers a single question, starting with the short answer.
Verifying Claims Across CEE Languages: A Practical Method
A step-by-step guide to cross-lingual verification that treats translated echoes as a single source.
Atomic Claims: Breaking a News Story into Checkable Facts
Splitting complex narratives into isolated, verifiable units prevents error accumulation and exposes hidden inaccuracies in multilingual reporting.
Detecting Contradictions Between Sources with Language Inference
Natural language inference breaks down complex claims to identify logical conflicts between news reports, enabling faster human verification in multilingual environments.
Why AI Assistants Rarely Cite Hungarian and CEE News
Training data imbalances and reinforcement learning feedback loops systematically exclude smaller-language sources from AI-generated answers.
Using Wikipedia as a Verification Starting Point, Not an End
Treat Wikipedia as a navigation tool to find original records, not as the final authority for claims about institutions in smaller-language media.
How Disinformation Campaigns Manipulate AI Assistant Responses
Disinformation actors now plant false data specifically to train AI models into repeating lies as facts.
Checking the Provenance of Images and Video Before Publishing
A practical checklist for journalists and editors to trace the origin of visual media and identify deepfakes before publication.
Tracing a Claim Back to Its Origin Document: A Provenance Guide
A practical method for multi-hop verification in multilingual Central and Eastern European media environments.
The Illusory Truth Effect: Why Repetition Feels Like Verification
Repetition creates a sense of familiarity that the brain mistakes for factual accuracy, undermining editorial judgment and public trust.
Six Models of Information Ecosystem Collapse and What Survives
Analysis of six theoretical frameworks explaining why unverified information drives out quality content in the age of generative AI.
Verification Glossary: From Claim Grounding to Provenance
A practical guide to the vocabulary of AI-assisted fact-checking, defining core terms with examples from multilingual media verification.
How Agentage.news Verifies Stories: Questions and Answers
A transparent look at the automated and human-led steps used to validate stories before publication.