Descripción del proyecto
La verificación de hechos en tiempo real golpea a las noticias falsas
Más de una de cada dos personas se cuestiona la validez de las noticias, por lo que la credibilidad de los medios de comunicación queda en entredicho. Ha surgido la necesidad de verificar los hechos, pero el proceso resulta largo y costoso. Newtral es una empresa pionera en este campo que se esfuerza por producir y difundir un periodismo basado en datos. Con más de cuarenta empleados, Newtral es el mayor equipo profesional de verificación de hechos de la Unión Europea. Su objetivo es convertirse en el principal referente de este complicado campo mediante la aplicación de inteligencia artificial también en la labor semiautomática de la verificación de hechos. La innovación de NEWTRAL contribuirá a impulsar la expansión de la empresa en el mercado, aumentando su crecimiento a unos 32 millones EUR y con una ampliación de personal prevista de más de cien expertos en 2024.
Objetivo
People consume news because they need to be informed about the state-of-the-world and events around them, but 54% of citizens think that there is a serious problem regarding fake news and trust in media has decreased to the lowest-point-ever. It is very difficult for citizens to assess the credibility and veracity of news. On the other hand, citizens’ trust is crucial for news media that look for solutions to fight fake news and increase citizens’ trust. The solution is fact-checking, but fact-checking is a very time-consuming and costly task.
Newtral is a startup funded in October 2017 with fact-checking as its core business becoming one of the fact-checking pioneers and the leaders in the EU. +40 people currently work in Newtral researching new ways of producing and distributing data-driven journalism in the digital era, being the biggest professional fact-checking team in the EU. Our team is behind the production of ‘El Objetivo’, the first TV-show (+1M weekly live viewers) in the EU to bring fact-checking to a TV format in prime time.
Newtral is also a leading member of the International Fact Checking Network (IFCN), a community of international fact-checkers (51 members) and the only member with a TV show in prime time. ‘El Objetivo’ has been awarded with the “Best Audiovisual journalist fact-checking projects award” by the IFCN.
Our ambition is to create a new market by turning professional fact-checking into a scalable and profitable business. Newtral intends to become the gold standard in the fact-checking sector by applying NLP, advance data science methods and AI to the journalism fact-checking work to semi-automate the verification allowing any fact-checking journalist to become a ‘fact-checking centaur’.
SME Instrument Phase-1 and Phase-2 will be extremely beneficial in helping the company to accelerate development and market expansion of the solution, boosting the company’s growth to +100 employees and 32M€ revenues by 2024.
Ámbito científico
Programa(s)
Convocatoria de propuestas
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H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1
Régimen de financiación
SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1Coordinador
28049 Madrid
España
Organización definida por ella misma como pequeña y mediana empresa (pyme) en el momento de la firma del acuerdo de subvención.