Description du projet
Faciliter la vérification des contenus en ligne
À condition de disposer des bons outils, tout utilisateur des médias sociaux est en mesure de déterminer si les informations qu’il consulte en ligne sont dignes de confiance ou non. Le projet EUNOMIA, financé par l’UE, concevra des outils qui aideront les utilisateurs à suivre les recommandations en matière de «salubrité» de l’information. En contribuant à la maîtrise des informations diffusées dans les médias, le projet favorisera la prise de conscience et l’esprit critique. Il permettra aux utilisateurs des réseaux sociaux d’évaluer les informations qu’ils consomment et d’agir comme des «capteurs de confiance» humains au sein de leur réseau. Pour encourager la participation active de ces utilisateurs et limiter la diffusion de mésinformations, le projet permettra à chacun de voter sur la fiabilité des contenus présentés. Le nombre de votes apparaitra comme un indicateur susceptible d’aider d’autres personnes à évaluer la fiabilité des données.
Objectif
EUNOMIA is a fully decentralised, intermediary-free and open-source solution for addressing three key challenges: which social media user is the original source of a piece of information; how this information has spread and been modified in an information cascade; and how likely it is to be trustworthy. Although its innovations are applicable across any social network, its design philosophy makes it ideal for evaluation on similarly open, decentralised and federated new social media networks, thus contributing against accumulation of power in the large social media intermediaries located outside Europe. EUNOMIA actively encourages democratic citizen participation in content verification by allowing voting on content trustworthiness and influencing the reputation of content generators and sharers. It combines information cascade verification with information trustworthiness scoring, benefitting from blockchain technology to ensure transparency of the scoring process and that information has not been modified in a cascade. It also places emphasis on ensuring that trustworthiness information is communicated transparently and accessibly. A General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliant and ethically responsible digital companion running as a local app on the user’s device encourages the involvement of each user, while also carrying out the background processing for scoring and verifying content, and crucially for visualizing to the user. EUNOMIA uses social-science based co-design methodologies acknowledging and integrating users’ experiences of social media, specifically in how they use and trust the information they interact with. EUNOMIA’s versatility will be evaluated with large communities in social journalism and traditional media, as well as the largest user community of the most popular decentralised social media networks.
Champ scientifique
- social sciencesmedia and communicationsjournalism
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencescomputer securitydata protection
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencescomputer securitycryptography
- social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical policiescivil society
- humanitiesphilosophy, ethics and religionphilosophy
Programme(s)
Régime de financement
IA - Innovation actionCoordinateur
SE10 9LS London
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