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Calls Fake News, or simply fake news, have been becoming a matter of concern for a few years now, especially after the election of Donald Trump in the United States. Here in Brazil things don't seem to be different from what happened there, and nowadays it's easier to come across fake news about politics and politicians than true news. 3y6c3u
Many people have already acquired a sense of distrust on social networks and messaging apps such as the famous WhatsApp, but not everyone really doubts the veracity of all the news shared through these platforms. Exactly for this reason, it has become increasingly necessary for the emergence of tools that help the to detect if a certain news is in fact true or if it is just another fake news.
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The Institute of Mathematics and Computer Sciences (ICMC) of the University of São Paulo (USP) in partnership with the Federal University of São Carlos (Ufscar), launched a new tool that has precisely this purpose: inform if the news is false or true. It is based on the call of “machine learning algorithm ”, which is a technology that uses artificial intelligence to knowledge to the machine.
Professor Thiago Pardo from ICMC is coordinator of the project and stated that it is still in its initial phase. According to the professor, she is already able to identify with 90% accurately news that is either not completely true or completely false. But it's worth noting that it's still not 100% effective and that many people can use true facts to build fake news, such as subject deviation, so you need to be aware of that too.
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Currently, it is possible to make use of this new tool in two ways: either through the navigator from the internet or even directly from the WhatsApp. Check out:
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First, you need to access the tool website, called FakeCheck.
On the page itself, he already teaches how to check a news item. It is possible to copy and paste the text of a news to its veracity. According to the website “The system will process the text to identify spelling characteristics, such as commonly used words or word classes, and use these characteristics in a machine learning model that will classify the news as true or false.”
It is important to note that the system will only work if the copied text is complete. That is, only titles or headlines may not work correctly or may lead to incomplete analysis.
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To access the bot for the WhatsApp just access the tool link to app via smartphone. It will now open to send a scheduled message, just send.
The bot appears as a , but it is a detection tool. Fake News directly from the app. In WhatsApp itself it is possible to copy and paste the body of a news to be checked.
To do this, simply forward a news item to the bot's , as would be done between s. He will analyze the content and say if the news is possibly true or if it could be false, always advising you to look for reliable sources.
Important: When you finish a query, you must send the word “Fake” to restart the bot before pasting the body of another news to be verified.
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As already mentioned, the message verification system is carried out using the technology of machine learning algorithm , an English expression that means “machine learning”. Exactly for this reason, it is not corrected by any human, thus avoiding any possible bias. To send the necessary knowledge to this tool, the group of researchers used a vast database.
There were about 7,2 news items, half of them being false and half being true. In this way, it is possible for the system to identify words, expressions and content of a message and compare it with the news already stored in its database to identify whether it is part of the fake news group or the real news. This database was built with news from 2016 to 2018.
The group reported that each of them was carefully collected and analyzed so that they were either totally true or totally false, with no middle ground. And whoever is interested can even consult the database through the website of the Fakecheck. Although most are politically oriented, they also cover topics such as celebrities, science and even religion.
The tool is also capable of checking the grammar of the text. That's because many people who write fake news usually don't care much about the choice of words and the structure of the text, leaving as a clue some grammatical errors, agreement and even misused expressions. That is, factors such as the size of the text, the type of vocabulary used, spelling errors and even the amount of use of each grammatical class also enter the equation.
The project is moving forward to soon also be able to analyze images, videos and audios.
If the tool is Brazilian, ridiculously why is it called fakecheck? It starts badly and thus losing credibility.
And the link that you share here doesn't take you to the right place when you want to use WhatsApp to take you to something in English. Brazilians can't stop copying Americanis in everything, ehm!? Those turds!