Fighting Disinformation with Intelligent Coaching
Our AI-based Citizen Coaching Ecosystem empowers people to arrive at their own at logical conclusions about the factual correctness or reliability of an online statement in a manner comparable to an experienced investigator. The results help to stop the unintentional sharing and spread of false or misleading information.
TITAN centre's its work around three initial challenges.
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Our AI-based Citizen Coaching Ecosystem empowers people to arrive at their own at logical conclusions about the factual correctness or reliability of an online statement in a manner comparable to an experienced investigator. The results help to stop the unintentional sharing and spread of false or misleading information.
TITAN centre's its work around three initial challenges.
TITAN AI Enabled Coaching
Challenge 1
Need for a fact checking state of mind
Challenge 2
Erosion
of trust towards institutions
Challenge 3
Misinfomed migrant perception in Europe
Ursula von der Leyen, European Commission President (2021)
“With the digital revolution under way, citizens must be able to make choices where views can be expressed freely. Facts must be distinguished from fiction, and free media and civil society must be able to participate in an open debate, free from malign interference. Therefore, the EU is taking action to make our democracies in the EU more resilient.”
Types of False Information
There are 3 main categories of false information. TITAN explicitly tackles challenge of disinformation
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Misinformation
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Includes unintentional mistakes
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News is false but not created with intention of doing any harm
Disinformation
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Fabricated or deliberately manipulated content
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Intentionally created to send hate or to criticise
Malinformation
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Deliberate publication of private information for personal, corporate or public interest
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An effort to ignite hatred and cause harm
Why we need to tackle disinformation
What is dis-information?
Disinformation is false information that aims to mislead. It is purposely designed to shift people’s attention from accuracy and distract their critical thinking about whether factual declarations are true or not. To understand if a statement can be labelled dis-information then people need to be able to interpret and critically assess the arguments and reasoning provided in support of their conclusions.
What can we do?
The blame for the spread of fake news is put on the average internet user, mainly, because of people's limitation's in assessing the impact of an ‘automatic’ and ‘spontaneous’ sharing of a statement on social media networks. Therefore, to weaken disinformation campaigns, not only do we need to make verification technology available in a way that it can be trusted and easily used by the people but we also need to find ways that actively involve citizens in the fight against disinformation.