MOTIVATION
Combating disinformation online and its destabilizing and polarizing social effects
GOALS AND APPROACH
The DeFaktS project takes a comprehensive approach to researching and combating disinformation. For this purpose, an artificial intelligence (AI) is trained based on extracted messages from suspicious social media and messenger groups, which can recognize factors and stylistic devices that are characteristic of disinformation. The AI trained in this way forms a component for an XAI (Explainable Artificial Intelligence). With the help of this, an app should transparently inform and warn users of online offerings about the possible occurrence of disinformation so that the users' media skills are also trained.
INNOVATIONS AND PERSPECTIVES
With the help of an XAI (Explainable Artificial Intelligence), disinformation on the Internet is to be recognized and users can be made aware of it. For this usage, an AI is trained to recognize the stylistic devices of disinformation. Online platforms should be able to be moderated automatically using a programming interface for third parties.
PROJECTPARTNER INDUSTRY
Murmuras: https://murmuras.com/de
Liquid Democracy: https://liqd.net/de/
University Marburg: https://www.uni-marburg.de/de
Murmuras GmbH
Murmuras collects consumption and advertising-related data, using its own in-app technology. Murmuras also researches the consumption of technical media. Due to the technical complexity and required interoperability, development is carried out by Murmura's senior developers in close collaboration with the University of Marburg.
