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An idea for an email hoax detector

I’ve had a nifty idea.

I propose a piece of software that automatically scans messages as they arrive at your email server. It attempts to find a match between the text of the email message, and any article on Snopes.

If a sufficiently good match is found, and the article in question is marked as “False”, then the email is rejected, with a message explaining why.

If some of the big webmail providers could implement this facility by default, it would make the world a much better place.

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