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Correctiv Team of Journalists Uses AI in the Fight Against 'Fake News'

The German non-profit research center Correctiv puts the theory of three universities into practice, through the platform 'faktenforum' that fights 'Fake News' using Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Correctiv Team of Journalists Uses AI in the Fight Against 'Fake News'
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17:01 - 25/05/24 por Lusa

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"We're trying to create a community platform to transfer the idea of citizen journalism to fact-checking," Caroline Lindekamp, the project coordinator from Correctiv, told Lusa.
"We started at the beginning of this year, just in time for the 'super election year'. We're offering bi-weekly workshops or meet-ups on disinformation or fact-checking. We also launched a newsletter every two weeks," she described, highlighting the "growing interest" of civil society in these topics.
In addition to the European elections, scheduled for 9 June, three regions in Germany will also vote in the autumn.
"People are realising the huge risk that disinformation poses to democracy," Lindekamp said.
Last year, Correctiv published an investigation that reported on a secret meeting in which several members of the far right in Germany discussed a plan for mass deportations of immigrants and even Germans with migrant roots or backgrounds.
The information made headlines in all German newspapers, leading thousands of people to take to the streets across the country against the far right and the Alternative for Germany party (AfD).
"We want to give people the tools to continue to be active, so that they can be an active part of democracy through journalism (...) I wouldn't say that we're going to solve the problem of disinformation, but I believe that we're going to contribute to it," Caroline Lindekamp.
The 'Faktenforum', which is part of the NoFake project, organises "literacy courses" and face-to-face workshops with local organisations to provide civil society and the media with tools that allow them to decode false information.
"We have an editorial team that is doing the fact-checking, such as debunking false claims, and we have a reporting line for users who can suggest potential false claims for the team to fact-check," she added.
The three partner universities in the project, from Bochum (Ruhr-Universität Bochum), Berlin (TU Berlin) and Dortmund (TU Dortmund), are creating AI-supported assistance systems that not only detect possible incorrect information, but also help in the analysis of texts and images.
"We have very complex problems happening. There are many international crises happening at the same time and this creates a favourable climate for the spread of disinformation. When people are vulnerable or afraid, disinformation survives more easily," noted Caroline Lindekamp.
"Propaganda has always accompanied wars. The novelty now is that there is AI, new technologies, new applications that help disinformation to spread on a global scale," she concluded.
For Lindekamp, the 'Faktenforum' is a "small piece in the puzzle of combating disinformation" and the various efforts that have been made are "very important".
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