Description du projet
Une analyse croisée des médias pour mettre un terme aux fake news
La généralisation des fake news, les fausses informations, devient de plus en plus préoccupante. Des services de vérification des faits ont été créés pour les contrer, mais les solutions actuelles sont encore insuffisantes. Elles demandent également beaucoup de temps, nécessitant des interventions humaines, et se concentrent principalement sur la politique et les déclarations politiques. TruthCheck propose une approche alternative, combinant des technologies actuelles et nouvelles. TruthCheck est configuré pour être mis à la disposition du public gratuitement. Des licences sont également offertes aux entreprises privées, aux institutions gouvernementales et aux agences non gouvernementales.
Objectif
The phenomenon of fake news is as old as human’s ability to communicate. Recently, technology has made it easy to spread fake news with unprecedented speed towards the unprotected public, which has resulted in undesired external influence in European elections and referenda (Brexit, Catalonia).
Though a variety of fact checkers have arisen out of nowhere, current solutions fail on many aspects: they are primarily based on manual activities, focus mainly on politics and political statements and are highly country-/language specific. Due to the speed and sheer size of the Internet and Social Media platforms, manual defence against fake news is futile. Automated solutions are required involving automatic algorithms that quickly identify fake news and tag them as such, allowing Europeans to make educated, correct decisions. At SAIL LABS, we develop an alternative fact checker: TruthCheck. This combines available and novel technologies such as Machine-Learning algorithms, Trust Modelling, Natural Language Processing, and Speech-, Image- and Video-Recognition to verify feeds from TV, Radio, Newspapers, Internet and Social Media in 31 languages on a semi-automatic basis. TruthCheck will be available as free version to the public, while licenses are offered to enterprises, NGOs and governmental institutions. In absence of a clear market leader we intend to take the opportunity to become first-comer in this segment, thereby targeting the fast-growing market of media analysis. Through this project, we intend to assess and develop the required commercial and technical work that it needs to ensure successful and swift market launch.
Champ scientifique
- social sciencesmedia and communicationsjournalism
- social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical policiescivil societynongovernmental organizations
- social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical transitionselections
- social sciencespolitical sciencesgovernment systemsdemocracy
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligencemachine learning
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Régime de financement
SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1Coordinateur
1090 Wien
Autriche
L’entreprise s’est définie comme une PME (petite et moyenne entreprise) au moment de la signature de la convention de subvention.