Personal companion for understanding disinformation for media professionals

Detecting Disinformation, Hate Speech, and Logical Fallacies in Articles

The Personal Companion for Understanding Disinformation is an LLM-based service that aims to assist junior, experienced journalists and fact-checkers to combat the spread of disinformation and misinformation, and, hence, improve the quality of media content.

It offers a range of features including assistance in writing credible articles, checking content validity and understanding disinformation spread, while also helping fact-checkers manage their debunking databases.

Specifically, it aims to:

  • Assist junior journalists to identify certain types of logical fallacies and hate speech, and prevent them from spreading disinformation
  • Assist junior journalists and media professionals to check the validity and credibility of the articles they consume
  • Produce reports on specific claims based on the websites/debunking reports they appear
  • Understand the virality of claims
  • Assist fact-checkers to search, maintain, and share their debunking database