| co-inform |
Description |
Misinformation generates misperceptions, which have affected policies in many domains,
including economy, health, environment, and foreign policy. Co-Inform is about empowering
citizens, journalists, and policymakers with co-created socio-technical solutions,
to increase resilience to misinformation, and to generate more informed behaviours
and policies. The aim of Co-Inform is to co-create these solutions, with citizens,
journalists, and policymakers, for (a) detecting and combating a variety of misinforming
posts and articles on social media, (b) supporting, persuading, and nourishing misinformation-resilient
behaviour, (c) bridging between the public on social media, external fact checking
journalists, and policymakers, (d) understanding and predicting which misinforming
news and content are likely to spread across which parts of the network and demographic
sectors, (e) infiltrating echo-chambers on social media, to expose confirmation-biased
networks to different perceptions and corrective information, and (f) providing policymakers
with advanced misinformation analysis to support their policy making process and validation.
To achieve these goals, Co-Inform will bring together a multidisciplinary team of
scientists and practitioners, to foster co-creational methodologies and practices
for engaging stakeholders in combating misinformation posts and news articles, combined
with advanced intelligent methods for misinformation detection, misinformation flow
prediction, and real-time processing and measurement of crowds' acceptance or refusal
of misinformation. Co-Inform tools and platform will be made freely available and
open sourced to maximise benefit and reuse. Three main stakeholder groups will be
directly engaged throughout this process; citizens, journalists, and policymakers. |
