Anyone interested in Misinformation?

[rvoak]

Hello! I'm a master's student at UC Berkeley, and I'm really interested in misinformation, security and privacy. I have strong Machine Learning and coding skills as well.

Is there anyone interested in putting together an idea? I have some experience in working with misinformation as well.

[mbsteckler]

Hi Raj, it's Michael Steckler! Fancy virtually seeing you here! Although I know you've stated your interest in misinformation, I wanted to share that I'm interested in creating a compliance tool that organizations can use to conduct assessments on their data pipeline processes, and report these findings accordingly to regulatory bodies. Regardless of the immediate project idea (I'm open to anything), I'd love to work with you. Please keep me in mind!

[ShaswatJBabhulgaonkar]

Hello !!! I am currently a master's student in computer science. Having a couple of years of experience as a Software Developer, I have worked on various front-end and back-end technologies along with machine learning and deep learning technologies. The ML projects that I have worked on include Machine Learning for Prediction and Diagnosis of Cardiovascular Diseases and Handwritten Digit Recognition using various ML and deep learning algorithms. My personal website:- https://shaswatjbabhulgaonkar.github.io/ You can have a look at my projects on my Github:- https://github.com/ShaswatJBabhulgaonkar and my profile at Linkedin:- https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaswat-babhulgaonkar-2a488b196/ You can reach me out at my email shaswatjbabhulgaonkar@gmail.com

[chttrjeankr]

Hello! I'm Ankur. Currently a CSE Junior. My forte is anything having Python in it. :snake: I feel getting beyond misinformation and fake news is a burning :fire: need in today's world. Would like to contribute whatever I can to help solve this issue. Open to ideas for now.

Feel free to peruse my GitHub :octocat: profile for more of my work.

[cubetastic33]

Hello! I too would like to work on misinformation. I mostly code in rust and python; feel free to check my GitHub profile for my work!

[Palmstroemen]

Hi, would you like to collaborate for a tiny web-based mobile-app that helps people to get a feeling for big numbers? Big numbers are everywhere in our news-feeds. 2 Billions here, 1,7 Trillions there. But how much is this? Is it half the GDP of India? Or as much as an aircraft carrier costs? How does this correspond to me as I am maybe an American citizen? So let's divide it by the number of citizens, or the number of taxpayers, or the number of car drivers, ...

A tiny app that first appears like a calculator with some special keys like (millions, billions, ...) Once you enter a number that you might have read in the newspaper, you get right into a list of comparable numbers. You might choose from several lists like USA military expenses, World military expenses, Nature (cells in the brain, stars in the universe, ...). Some of these lists will be free, some might be purchasable. This is the "big numbers" part.

But what does this mean to me? I'm part of several communities. My hometown, my state, I'm maybe a retiree or a car driver. So let's divide the big number by the number of these communities. So there is a configurable list of communities characterized by a name and a number to divide. This is the "mean2me" part.

User experience: Enter the big number, swipe to the right: Big Numbers, swipe to the left: mean2me. That's it. Select an item in one of the lists and get more information.

We believe, that the more people get a relation to these big numbers, the more they care and the less they can be fooled. So help us to self enable people by giving them a "feeling" for big numbers.

please contact me if interested: palmstroem177@gmail.com

[cwmilazzo]

Hey all! We're looking for a teammate interested in misinformation as well. Specifically, being able to use ML to identify the credibility level of news stories. Reach out to me at cedar@trustium.com if you'd like to participate not just in this lab but also in our ongoing projects attempting to redirect funding from misinformation publishers to high quality news outlets.

[marsrobertson]

Fake news and hybrid warfare...

I was thinking about an overlay on the web, let's call it "reality filter"

Some of my thoughts: https://forum.kleros.io/t/extending-fake-news-prevention-mechanism-banning-fake-news-just-like-you-ban-chemical-weapons-land-mines-and-nukes/249

[bruisedsamurai]

Hi everyone!

We can see the effect of fake news in our world. And it is a problem I'm really interested in tackling.

Most of the fake news I've seen are based on photos, or videos and then incorrect, and provocative text is posted alongside it. So, the service I'm thinking about will be based on video, photo that takes them as input and then provide correct origins and info for the same.

@cwmilazzo I'm really interested in working against misinformation.

[summerng]

Hi there! I'm a student at U-M's School of Information, and I currently conduct design (and used to do research) work for their Center for Social Media Responsibility (CSMR), which combats misinformation in public media spheres. You can see my design work here! I'd love to work with you on something, so if you have something in the works, I'd love to know!