Super PAC App for iPhone and iPad filters out the noise in political ads

Political advertisements contain finely-constructed verbiage meant to drive certain aspects of an individual or party while tactfully hiding others. The Super PAC App, created by a pair of former MIT students, hopes to drown out the noise and verify the facts by filtering the information with the help of "audio fingerprinting." Dan Siegel, one of the app's co-creators, explained that the app itself does not do the fact-checking, but cross-references the information with an audio database using TuneSat's monitoring technology — like Shazam, but for politics.