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Fact-checking beyond the facts
Leveraging argument technology for impartial fact-checking
About LATIF
This project brings the Analysis of Competing Hypotheses (ACH) methodology to the fact-checking domain to counter and control for cognitive bias in the fact-checking process. The project will develop a new generation of digital tools based on ACH to empower and improve fact-checking organizations’ decision-making processes. LATIF begins with a qualitative assessment of fact-checkers understanding and identification of cognitive bias. The project will then leverage these insights to inform the design of a digital infrastructure to improve fact checkers’ decision-making processes towards impartiality (de-bias fact-checking tool). The usefulness of these tools will be then assessed through feedback provided by the fact-checkers and observing potential changes in public visibility of the enhanced fact-checks combining qualitative and quantitative methodologies.
Blog
Transparency is Crucial for User-Centered AI, or is it? How this Notion Manifests in the UK Press Coverage of GPT
Transparency is a core principle for a user-centered AI present in all recent regulatory initiatives. Is it equally present in the public discourse?
Fuzzy clustering of spatial interval-valued data
In questo articolo realizzato in collaborazione con il Dipartimento di Scienze Sociali ed Economiche dell’Università La Sapienza, sviluppiamo un algoritmo di classificazione di unità che
LATIF survey – invitation to participate
In the LATIF project we are trying to build a digital tool to help journalists and fact-checkers being impartial in verifying information
Enjoy our focus group – 21st June and 22nd June 2023
In the frame of the EMIF funded project “Leveraging argument technology for impartial factchecking”, we are working on eliciting standards for impartiality and build a user-friendly digital tool to help fact-checkers in the process of information verification
Repositories
Strengthening impartiality for the fact-checking
The role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in combating misinformation is evolving rapidly. AI systems have the capacity to streamline fact-checking operations and counter disinformation, but
Defending European Democracy – Main Threats And Measures To Countering Disinformation
Disinformation poses a significant threat to the integrity of European values, undermining democratic processes and influencing voter behavior. This policy brief for the LATIF Project,
When fact-checks go viral: a cross-national analysis of the dissemination of European fact-checkers on Twitter
To be effective in countering misinformation, it is paramount for fact-checkers to reach a wide audience. This study investigates the dynamics that lead to broader
Impartiality and cognitive bias in the fact-checking process: an overview
The lack of impartiality is increasingly used as an argument to attack the credibility of news media outlets, as well as to undermine the trustworthiness
People
Livia De Giovanni is a Full Professor of Statistics. She teaches at the Department of Business and Management and the Department…
Gianni Riotta is a Visiting Professor at Princeton University in the French and Italian Department, specializing in digital humanities, machine writing…
Andrea Nicolai is the CEO and founder of T6, a consulting and research company. The combination of a humanistic education…
Simeon is the Professor of Digital Culture in the Department of Communications and Media at the University of Liverpool and Joint…
Chris Reed is Professor of Computer Science and Philosophy at the University of Dundee in Scotland, where he heads the Centre for…
Elena Musi is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Communication and Media at the University of Liverpool where she is Program Lead…
Simona De Rosa (PhD) works in T6 Ecosystems where she is Director of the “Media and Creative Industries Research Department”…
Lorenzo Federico works for Luiss Data Lab as a Data Science research fellow. His research interests are mainly related to the theory…
Mariavittoria Masotina is a research assistant in the Department of Communication and Media at the University of Liverpool…
Ayoub Mounim graduated in theoretical physics from the University of Turin and obtained a PhD in Quantum Field Theory and…
Federica Urzo graduated in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Naples Federico II. After her studies…
Gian Marco Passerini is a professional journalist and the content creator at Luiss DataLab..