How can automated factchecking help you?

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[ UUID ] 7e948583-e2dd-4700-ad65-c3b19690ff25

[ Session Name ] How can automated factchecking help you? [ Primary Space ] Open Innovation [ Secondary Space ] Decentralization

[ Submitter's Name ] Mevan Babakar [ Submitter's Affiliated Organisation ] Full Fact [ Submitter's Github ] @mevanbabakar

What will happen in your session?

Factchecking and automated factchecking have come along way in the whirlwind year of 2017.

Mevan Babakar who leads on automated factchecking at Full Fact, the UK’s leading fact checking charity and Christopher Guess, from Share The Facts, an international collaboration of dozens of fact checking organizations, will introduce and demonstrate projects which seek to standardise, automate and augment the current fact checking process.

We will then as a group, discuss the complexity that arises both politically and technologically, and gather ideas and applications for how these advancements can be used by new communities.

What is the goal or outcome of your session?

Our aim is three fold, to:

• discuss how best to build an open, transparent, automated factchecking system
• generate an idea of which data and APIs would be valuable to share for new communities to build on
• generate ideas for features and products for different types of users

If your session requires additional materials or electronic equipment, please outline your needs.

Post-it notes Pens Screen/Projector to be able to hook into a HDMI

Time needed

60 mins

[KirstieJane]

Hi @MevanBabakar! Thank you for submitting a great proposal! I'm not sure how this proposal differs to #604? Are you imagining these as two different sessions or is one a duplicate? What do you think?

[KirstieJane]

[ Title ]: Fact-checking and automation, what's next and what can be done? [ Description ]: Mevan Babakar of the UK's leading factchecking charity Full Fact, and Christopher Guess of the University of Missouri and the Duke Reporters’ Lab are two researchers on the front end of what technology can do to help factchecking. They start with what makes a factcheck, the problems faced with the reporting, and some success stories. Christopher and Mevan will then discuss their work in machine learning, natural language processing and journalism research to make factchecking more pervasive, faster, and more accurate. We will then as a group, discuss the complexity that arises both politically and technologically, and gather ideas and applications for how these advancements can be used by new communities.

[ Facilitator 1 Name ] Mevan Babakar [ Facilitator 1 Github ] @mevanbabakar [ Facilitator 1 Twitter ] @MeAndVan [ Facilitator 2 Name ] Christopher Guess [ Facilitator 2 Github ] @cguess [ Facilitator 2 Twitter ] @cguess

Requirements

• Post-it notes
• Pens/markers
• Whiteboard/easel
• Screen/Projector to be able to hook into a HDMI

[cguess]

My github and twitter is @cguess

[KirstieJane]

Thank you @cguess! Updated!