What is considered truth?
Previous NextTrue for our algorithm are what independent, non-for-profit news sources like Associated Press have fact-checked and already covered. Also, we are considering truth, what independent fact-checking organizations like Politifact, Snopes and others have fact-checked.
Trusted vs Hoax
Previous NextWe are using the power of IBM Watson to enhance every news article with Natural Language Understanding technologies. We are using Google as a "database" so FightHoax evolves as the news story evolves. We scan the world's news sources and blogs like if it were a database. Many natural language processing techniques are being in order to assess if a news article contains legit and trusted information. Our algorithm understands the content of each news article like humans do, then, it performs logical steps that human fact-checkers perform by doing comparisons. In addition, our algorithm analyzes the language used, the author of the article and many more factors to calculate the outcome.
Calculating everylittle aspect
Previous NextOur algorithm has the unique ability to detect tiny but important words in any article. We let our algorithm understand every different aspect about the article like the topic, the sentiment of each sentence, taxonomy, entities and every tiny part of speech. So, if someone copy-pastes an article from a trusted source, or a part of it, but paraphrases small but important selections, even just few words, we warn the user about it and suggest that they read a more trusted article instead.
"David against Goliath"
A Millennial trying to fight mass misinformation at a scale and improve the work of the newsrooms around the world.
Valentinos Tzekas
Founder & CEO
Valentinos Tzekas, is a 20 year-old student, active entrepreneur and influencer, born in Larissa, Greece.Magazines such as Forbes say that he has the “mark of a true entrepreneur”.Proud awardee of the 25Under25 title of the Internet Society organization(founded by the 2 fathers of the Internet).
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Supporting the idea that Democracy requires well-informed citizens, media transparency and that media literacy is one of the most important ways to combat bias and hate speech.
