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Overview

The information environment in Logically Accelerate is contained with the topics available to the fact checker.

Topics are curated either at the organizational level to provide a view of the most prescient or trending subjects (see Trending Topics Feed), or they can be created by an individual. the individual’s topics appear in My Topics and are designed to be easily tailored by the fact-checker to cover specific interests or tasks.

Creating a topic

Searching for a new topic is simple and driven by entering keywords which represent the topic and selecting the sources that you are interested in. More complex search queries can be achieved by using the context and exclusion terms.

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A search will return videos that match a single keyword, or any combination of the keywords you enter in the search terms box.

Users can also modify the weighting on the components of the Urgency score to tailor the scoring to the individual needs of the particular ask. For some tasks, Recency (see Urgency) may be more important than other values such as Novelty (see Urgency).

After clicking Save & Search, the new topic will be available in the user's feed.

Creating a new trending topic

To create a trending topic for your organization, please reach out to [email protected].

Advanced Search: Context & Exclusion search terms

Context search terms will provide more clarity on the user’s intent and will enhance the relevance of the results. The resulting content will include the context terms, in addition to any of the search terms.

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A search will always contain all of your context terms, combined with at least one of your search terms

Exclusion terms allow the user to filter out content that they aren’t interested in. The search results will be tailored to content that does not contain any of the exclusion terms.

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A search will match will contain none of your exclusion terms.

How are these search terms combined?

When search terms, content terms and exclusion terms are specified, they are combined into a search query in the following way:

(search term 1 AND (context term 1 AND context term 2) NOT (exclusion term 1 OR exclusion term 2)) OR (search term 2 AND (context term 1 OR context term 2) NOT (exclusion term 1 OR exclusion term 2))

Given the search terms biden and trump and the context terms vote and ballot, you would have the following search:

(biden AND vote AND ballot) OR (trump AND vote AND ballot)