Co-Creating Misinformation Resilient Societies
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Talk delivered at the Paris Peace Forum, Nov 12-13, where I presented the H2020 Co-Inform project that aims at researching and developing socio-technical tools to tackle misinformation.
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Co-Creating Misinformation Resilient Societies
- 1. 12-13 November-2019, Paris Harith Alani Twitter: @halani h.alani@open.ac.uk The Open University Co-Creating Misinformation Resilient Societies Paris Peace Forum, Nov 12-13, 2019, Paris
- 6. No country is immune to misinformation Misinformation Threatens Peace … Everywhere
- 7. • 188 active Fact Checkers from over 60 countries Fact Checkers Spread Globally https://reporterslab.org/fact-checking/
- 8. This story was shared nearly 10 thousand times on Twitter, and continued to circulate years after being debunked. Misinformation spreads regardless Fact Checking Is Not Enough!
- 9. Goals of Co-Inform • Collect stakeholders’ requirements with regards to misinformation • Combine technology and social science to create misinformation detection and prediction tools • Understand the flow dynamics of misinformation and how they vary with topics and networks • Assess and evaluate the impact of our tools and intervention strategies, on perception and behaviour • Issue recommendations for policymakers • Follow a Co-creation methodology across all stages of the project
- 10. Tools Co-Inform Tools • Tools to raise self-awareness and media literacy Show self-interactions with misinformation, see explanations • A Browser plugin Provides users with misinformation ratings of social media posts and corrective information collected from several fact-checking sources. • Dashboards for fact-checking journalists and policy-makers Detect, track, and predict the spread and evolution of misinformation on the web.
- 11. Calculates how likely a given Twitter account to be a bot botometer.iuni.iu.edu/ Are they used by the people who need them the most? Misinformation Detection Tools Search by image and find where that image appears online. tineye.com Connects pages based on disagreement. Community driven. rbutr.com Uses journalists to asses websites for credibility newsguardtech.com Determines the trustworthiness of reviews using AI fakespot.com/ Plugin that warns users about unreliable news sources bsdetector.tech Detects and ranks claim, and matches them to fact-checks idir-server2.uta.edu/claimbuster/ Uses AI to detect misinformation, extremism and other toxic content www.trustium.com/
- 12. • How much misinformation have you spread?! Raising Awareness Shows previous interactions with misinformation
- 13. • Lists posts with information content or sources checked by different fact checkers and trust assessors • Show which ones were found true, false, or mixed Collating and Visualising Assessments Shows previous interactions with misinformation All posts from account to the same source.
- 14. • How misinforming is your network? Measuring the Social Network Shows level of interaction with misinformation of each “friend”
- 15. How social values influence sharing of misinformation? Impact of Social Values https://irfankhawajaphilosopher.com/2015/08/12/the-schwartz-theory-of-basic-values-and-some-implications-for-political-philosophy/ • Study the criteria people use to evaluate information and justify sharing it. • Understand the impact of values on why people become “misinformed” in the first place. Based on a study with 100 participants
- 16. @Co_Inform @Coinform @Co_Inform coinform.eu • Harith Alani • Twitter: @halani h.alani@open.ac.uk The Open University