Say you check some facts and write it up, like Snopes or Full Fact or Chequeado or Africa Check etc. That's great if people go find your fact-check, of click on it from a Google "fact check" link or whatever. But lots of people are seeing/spreading misinformation and aren't going to go find the fact check.
Is there anything that proactively reaches out to people to provide fact checks? I'm imagining something like a twitter bot that looks for people retweeting a fake video (for example) and replies with a message that includes a link to a Snopes fact check.
Does something like it exist? Has it been tried and failed?
My first three (pessimistic) thoughts would be 1] false positives would be a big problem, 2] few people seem to be convinced by "facts" when posting conspiracy theories, 3] searching for a specific image/video in most social media is hard (as opposed to text).
I don't know any bots out there that do this, the only ones that seem to work in an automated fashion are simple rule based like @StealthMountain (look at the "likes" of the account to see how many people appropriate being corrected for a grammar error).
One thing that you could do, is start building media hashes of content, that way you could track identical images/videos that are being shared. Coupled that with a similairty metric, you could find images that are closer after compression.
I think he got around[weird twitter rules] by saying he tweets everything himself. Which might be possible with a low enough volume.
Say you check some facts and write it up, like Snopes or Full Fact or Chequeado or Africa Check etc. That's great if people go find your fact-check, of click on it from a Google "fact check" link or whatever. But lots of people are seeing/spreading misinformation and aren't going to go find the fact check.
Is there anything that proactively reaches out to people to provide fact checks? I'm imagining something like a twitter bot that looks for people retweeting a fake video (for example) and replies with a message that includes a link to a Snopes fact check.
Does something like it exist? Has it been tried and failed?
My first three (pessimistic) thoughts would be 1] false positives would be a big problem, 2] few people seem to be convinced by "facts" when posting conspiracy theories, 3] searching for a specific image/video in most social media is hard (as opposed to text).
I don't know any bots out there that do this, the only ones that seem to work in an automated fashion are simple rule based like @StealthMountain (look at the "likes" of the account to see how many people appropriate being corrected for a grammar error).
One thing that you could do, is start building media hashes of content, that way you could track identical images/videos that are being shared. Coupled that with a similairty metric, you could find images that are closer after compression.
I think he got around[weird twitter rules] by saying he tweets everything himself. Which might be possible with a low enough volume.