The AI4TRUST project aims to combat misinformation and disinformation in the EU by creating a trust-based environment that integrates the automated monitoring of social and news media with advanced AI-based technologies to enhance the work of human fact-checkers.
The impact of disinformation on our society, at both individual and collective levels, is becoming increasingly apparent; however, given the vast quantities of online content being produced, it is impossible for humans alone to monitor and analyse all platforms and sources. In fact, the production rate of disinformation is too high to keep up with, making it necessary to use AI-based technologies to combat advanced disinformation techniques. This is where AI4TRUST comes in, as a hybrid system that combines human and machine intelligence to combat disinformation.
The general objective of AI4TRUST project is to enhance the human-based response for tackling misinformation and disinformation across the EU by empowering scientific researchers and media practitioners with advanced AI-based technologies.
In more detail, AI4TRUST system will monitor numerous social media platforms in almost real-time, using novel AI algorithms to analyse multimodal (text, audio, visual) and multilingual (en, fr, de, el, it, pl, es) content, and will flag any high-risk disinformation for expert review. The project’s ultimate goal is to create trustworthy reports customised to the needs of media professionals and policy makers, providing them with reliable information to prevent disinformation from spreading out of control.
TITLE
AI4TRUST - AI-based-technologies for trustworthy solutions against disinformation
DURATION
38 Months (Start date: 1 January 2023)
FUNDING PROGRAMME
Horizon Europe
CALL ID
HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01
EU CONTRIBUTION
€5,950,682.50 `{`FBK €1,043,500.00`}`
FBK ROLE
FBK is the AI4TRUST Project Coordinator and is also in charge of the project management (WP1). Moreover, it leads WP 2 - Methodological design, data gathering and pre-processing-, aimed at defining (i) the technological methods used in the project, (ii) the identification of the needs in terms of social data of the different methods that will be applied, with the final goal of (iii) the design and the production of a GDPR compliant data gathering and pre-processing pipeline able to attend to the needs of WP3 that will be integrated into the platform in WP5. Additionally, FBK contributes to WP3 - AI-driven data analysis methods; WP4 - Human-Centred Explainability, Interpretation and Policy; WP4 - Technical implementation of the platform & Security Framework: WP5 - Technical implementation of the platform & Security Framework; WP6 - Piloting, Assessment & Fact-checking; and WP7 - Communication, Dissemination and Exploitation.
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