co inform project full details
Champion:
Harith Alani
KMi Director
Participant(s):Lara Piccolo, Tracie Farrell, Gregoire Burel
Timeline:01 Apr 2018 - 31 Mar 2021
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Co-Inform
Co-Creating Misinformation-Resilient Societies
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.
Partners
- Stockholm University
- Cyprus University of Technology
- University of Koblenz
- FactCheckNI
- Expert Systems Iberia
- International Hellenic University
- IIASA
- Scytl
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Fernandez, M., Bellogín, A. and Cantador, I. (2024). Analysing the Effect of Recommendation Algorithms on the Spread of Misinformation. In: Websci '24: 16th ACM Web Science Conference, 21-24 May 2024, Stuttgart, Germany. https://oro.open.ac.uk/96966/.
Piccolo, L., Blackwood, A.C., Farrell, T. and Mensio, M. (2021). Agents for Fighting Misinformation Spread on Twitter: Design Challenges. In: Conversational User Interfaces CUI 2021, 27-29 Jul 2021, Online. https://oro.open.ac.uk/78241/.
Piccolo, L., Puska, A., Pereira, R. and Farrell, T. (2020). Pathway to a Human-Values Based Approach to Tackle Misinformation Online. In: HCI International 2020, 19-24 Jul 2020, Copenhagen. https://oro.open.ac.uk/74962/.
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Burel, G., Farrell, T., Mensio, M., Khare, P. and Alani, H. (2020). Co-Spread of Misinformation and Fact-Checking Content during the Covid-19 Pandemic. In: Proceedings of the 12th International Social Informatics Conference (SocInfo), 6-9 Oct 2020, Pisa, Italy. https://oro.open.ac.uk/71786/.
Mensio, M., Alani, H. and Willis, A. (2020). Towards a Cross-article Narrative Comparison of News. In: Proceedings of the Text2Story’20 Workshop, 14 Apr 2020, Lisbon, Portugal. https://oro.open.ac.uk/69887/.
Mensio, M. and Alani, H. (2019). MisinfoMe: Who’s Interacting with Misinformation? In: 18th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2019): Posters & Demonstrations, Industry and Outrageous Ideas Tracks, 26-30 Oct 2019, Auckland, New Zeeland. https://oro.open.ac.uk/66341/.
Mensio, M. and Alani, H. (2019). News Source Credibility in the Eyes of Different Assessors. In: Proceedings of the Conference for Truth and Trust Online 2019, 4-5 Oct 2019, London, UK. https://oro.open.ac.uk/62771/.
Fernandez, M. and Alani, H. (2018). Online Misinformation: Challenges and Future Directions. In: Web Conference 2018, 23-27 Apr 2018, Lyon, France. https://oro.open.ac.uk/53734/.
