CoFacts: the chatbot that combats misinformation (Wu Min Hsuan (ttcat) - Open Culture Foundation / g0v.tw)
Download as PPTX, PDF2 likes1,641 views
This document discusses Cofacts, a chatbot created to combat the spread of misinformation. Cofacts allows users to check facts by sending messages to the chatbot on Line. The chatbot will then search its database and the internet to verify claims or find context about the information. It provides concise replies indicating whether a claim is accurate or contains misinformation. Cofacts aims to stop the spread of rumors by making fact-checking more accessible and collaborative. It hopes to increase transparency by open sourcing its data and process so others can trace how information spreads over time.
CoFacts: the chatbot that combats misinformation (Wu Min Hsuan (ttcat) - Open Culture Foundation / g0v.tw)
- 1. Cofacts / The chatbot that combats misinformation Wu Min Hsuan (Ttcat) Deputy CEO of Open Culture Foundation / g0v.tw hackathon organizer Taiwan
- 2. Ttcat Wu, Min Hsuan Deputy CEO, Open Culture Foundation g0v Hackathon organizer
- 3. Family member group (21 ppl) Coworkers (12 ppl) Group tour friends (15 ppl) Group tour friends (12 ppl)
- 5. Tsai government humiliated to international: TIME’s cover story this week is “Wonky Monkey Iron Curtain Country” It is really a great shame for Taiwan!
- 7. Source: https://meet.bnext.com.tw/articles/view/38786. Survey conducted by Nielsen Taiwan. # of people used LINE in past 7 days yr yr yr yr yr (% Taiwanese population, in 2016)
- 8. Touch, Click, Select, Forward By Senior People who is not familiar w/ internet
- 9. SHARE NOW! Steps to stop Tsai Ing-wen and Aurdery Tang monitoring your Facebook.
- 10. SHARE NOW! Steps to crack Tsai Ing-wen and Aurdery Tang monitor your Facebook
- 11. How we tackle the disinformation within the closing IM groups?
- 12. Steps to stop rumors from spreading Spend minutes or hours googling Rewrite into easy-to-read chat messages Send back to the sender and hope we are not hurting their feelings ...Everytime ...Chatroom by chatroom
- 13. Cofacts: The collaborative fact-checking chatbot Line ID: @cofacts
- 15. $100,000 Each Project: USD 10,000 ~ $20,000 for 6 month development
- 16. How Cofacts work ? USER CHATBOT MESSAGE DATABASE REPLY WEBSITE EDITOR
- 17. Why is there no media cover the accident in power plant today?? Government censorship!!! We failed to find messages about “Why is there no...” Would you send this message to the database? Yes No
- 18. y is there no media cover the accident in wer plant today?? Government censorship!!! We failed to find messages about “Why is there no...” Would you send this message to the database? Yes No (translated for demo purpose)
- 19. (translated for demo purpose)
- 20. (translated for demo purpose)
- 21. Why is there no media cover the accident in power plant today?? Government censorship!!! This reply says the message contains misinformation. This accident actually happened in September 2017, and lots news reported back in Sep 21 2017. Reference:https://tw.appledaily.com/new/realtime/20 170921/1208344/
- 22. Multiple, diverse replies Reply that says “Contains correct information” Reply that says “Contains misinformation”
- 23. Process of finding information 1. Read message to confirm / fact-check 2. Extract keywords 3. Open up web browsers and google for with keywords 4. Compare results and make decisions
- 24. Process of finding information w/ chatbots 1. Read Forward message to chatbots 2. Extract keywords 3. Open up web browsers and google for with keywords 4. Compare results and make decisions
- 25. Let users ask what they want to know.
- 26. Everyone is an Editor
- 27. Online Group + Fact-checking Tool + Editor Gathering Icon made by Prosymbols from www.flaticon.com
- 29. Fact-checking Case Study & Tools for Editors
- 30. Fact-checking Guidelines 🔗 beta.hackfoldr.org/cofacts
- 31. All open-sourced 🔗 github.com/cofacts
- 32. CHALLENGE 32 VALU E + + Decentralized Instant Messenger Automated Search Precision Growth Hacking Quality Control COFACTS
- 33. Beta Test Status from open database
- 34. 260 from ~ 12 unique editors New replies per week
- 35. 26,000 LINE users added cofacts as their friends
- 36. 13,000 LINE messages in database
- 37. ~250 new article reported every week
- 40. Life Circle of disinformation
- 41. Life Circle of disinformation 415 days The logest one, has been requested 55 times in LINE since 2016-12-17
- 42. 383days The well-hidden, requested only 2 times in LINE Life Circle of disinformation
- 43. hidden inside the Closing IM groups...
- 45. 2018/3/29 00:13 First public post on Facebook 2018/3/29 07:24 First screenshot of LINE chat log on FB 2018/3/29 08:26 Cofacts LINE chatbot get first report 2018/3/29 08:44 Cofacts LINE chatbot get second report . . . With the Open Data of Cofacts, now we’d be able to tracing the timeline of treads in long-term, and more.
- 46. Imagine the impacts when all fact-checking organizations publish open data.