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StartupRealities No 56 PhilCoaching is an education and training company that employs retired philosophers as coaches. Philosophers specialise in life coaching or career coaching. CEO QUOTE "Philosophers are the most intense, yet the most patient coaches. They go deep. And once they have retired from their teaching or research career, they are almost transcendental. This makes for selfless coaching," said company founder and CEO Phil Collins. The School of Athens in the Vatican - by Raphael (Source: Wikipedia )

StartupRealities No 16 EscalateTruth Limited is a fact-checking, fact-verification and fake news filtering company that plays the role of "arbiter of truth" in media. The company's verification process does not involve judgements on matters of opinion (e.g. is Donald Trump good or bad) but flags incorrect facts, fake news and factual lies. VERIFICATION PROCESS The company's fact checking and verification process goes through four hierarchical levels:      1. ALERT An investigation is triggered either after notification by a human reader or automatically as a result of an AI algorithm (spider or bot) spotting potentially incorrect factual information in the media. Whenever a reader uses the "citation needed" label (commonly seen on Wikipedia) to tag a piece of information, this triggers an investigation by EscalateTruth.      2. POPULAR VOTE The disputed facts are put to popular vote among online readers, who are given three possible options: True...