Soon, lie-detecting system for social media

Researchers from five European universities are reportedly working on a system that could help detect rumours on social media by identifying whether information was accurate.

By:ANI
| Updated on: Feb 21 2014, 16:45 IST

Researchers from five European universities are reportedly working on a system that could help detect rumours on social media by identifying whether information was accurate.


Led by Sheffield University, the researchers have been working on an automatic lie-detecting system, which is hoped would allow governments, emergency services, media and the private sector to respond more accurately to seemingly incorrect information.

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According to News24, the three-year, EU-funded project, PHEME, is an attempt to filter out factual information from the ill-informed comments that spread on Twitter and Facebook.

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Project leaders said that social networks were rife with lies and deception and such incorrect messages could have far-reaching consequences.

The report said that the project aims to identify four types of information - speculation, controversy, misinformation, and disinformation - and model their spread on social networks.

The identification would be based on three factors: the information itself (lexical, syntactic and semantic); cross-referencing with trustworthy data sources; and the information's diffusion.

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First Published Date: 20 Feb, 12:52 IST
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