WeVerify: Wider and Enhanced Verification for You - Project Overview and Tool Demonstration

Abstract

This paper presents an overview of the WeVerify H2020 EU project, which is developing intelligent human-in-the-loop content verification and disinformation analysis methods. Social media and web content are analysed and contextualised within the broader online ecosystem, in order to expose fabricated content, through cross-modal content verification, social network analysis, microtargeted debunking and a blockchain-based public database of known fakes. In particular, we introduce the following already developed tools: cross-modal content verification; blockchain-based database of known fakes; an open source content verification browser plugin; a collaborative verification workbench.

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“…There are proposals in which annotation is performed manually by domain experts and journalists, and others in which annotation is crowdsourced and the annotators are not necessarily experts. The most successful ones are those which combine domain knowledge and computer assistance, e.g., methodologies relying on Open Web (Banko, Cafarella, Soderland, Broadhead, & Etzioni, 2007) -like the state-of-the-art tools WeVerify (Marinova et al, 2019) and ClaimBuster (Hassan, Arslan, Li, & Tremayne, 2017)or on curated knowledge graphs -as in (Shiralkar, Flammini, Menczer, & Ciampaglia, 2017;Pan et al, 2018).…”