Description du projet
Tordre le cou aux fake news grâce à la vérification des faits en temps réel
La crédibilité des médias est mise à mal, plus d’une personne sur deux remettant en question la validité des reportages. Le besoin de vérifier les faits s’est accru, mais il s’agit d’un processus coûteux qui prend du temps. Newtral est un pionnier dans le domaine et s’efforce de produire et de diffuser un journalisme basé sur des données. Avec un personnel de plus de 40 personnes, Newtral est la plus grande équipe professionnelle de vérification des faits dans l’Union européenne. Cette entreprise a pour ambition de devenir la référence absolue dans ce domaine délicat, en utilisant également l’intelligence artificielle dans le cadre d’un travail semi-automatique de vérification des faits. L’innovation NEWTRAL contribuera à accélérer l’expansion du marché de Newtral, en portant sa croissance à environ 32 millions d’euros, et plus d’une centaine d’experts devraient rejoindre ses effectifs d’ici 2024.
Objectif
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.
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SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1Coordinateur
28049 Madrid
Espagne
L’entreprise s’est définie comme une PME (petite et moyenne entreprise) au moment de la signature de la convention de subvention.