Technology to counter misinformation/disinformation
summary
A fact‑checking pipeline exists: a small nonprofit builds an Android app that matches images and videos to a database using PHash and MD5 checksums, returns linked claim‑reviews, and queues unknowns for human review. The project trains journalists — trained 120 journalists — runs an 11‑person team, partners with QED42 for pro bono engineering, and pushes Creative Commons fact checks; demonstrated cases include recycled photos and clipped videos that sparked mob violence, so expect demos, failure modes, and deployment limits.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:28Examples of misinformation
- 3:02Digital tools
- 4:01Research
- 6:10Privilege
- 8:51What is viral
- 11:23Impact of factchecking
- 12:55Making factchecking easy
- 14:39Demo
- 16:04Android version
- 22:16Open source
- 25:25Challenges
- 26:09Google
- 27:16Facebook
- 28:18Twitter
- 28:47Fake news crisis
- 31:49Questions
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