NoFakeNews

[kibatech]

Project Lead:

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Welcome to OL7, Cohort B! This issue will be used to track your project and progress during the program. Please use this checklist over the next few weeks as you start Open Leadership Training 🎉.

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Before Week 1 (Jan 29): Your first mentorship call

• Complete the OLF self-assessment (online, printable). If you're a group, each teammate should complete this assessment individually. This is here to help you set your own personal goals during the program. No need to share your results, but be ready to share your thoughts with your mentor.
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• Complete Assignment 'Write Your Vision or Mission Statement'. Leave a comment on this issue with your draft vision statement & be ready to share this on the call.
• Watch 'Mozilla & Working Open'.
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• Create a repository for your project. New to GitHub? You can fork our templates.
• Add Contributing Guidlines
• Add a Code of Conduct
• Submit your project to Mozilla Pulse, add the tag #mozsprint
• Invite new contributors to into your work!

This issue is here to help you keep track of work as you start Open Leaders. Please refer to the OL7 Syllabus for more detailed weekly notes and assignments past week 4.

[kibatech]

“Working on the internet to make it free of misinformation and fake news.”

[foretia]

“Working on the internet to make it free of misinformation and fake news.”

Great vision, especially at an era where the spread of misinformation is very rampart

[veritoportugal]

Create visión.I would Like to see how to verify the news

[lpatmo]

“Working on the internet to make it free of misinformation and fake news.”

Love this. Curious about the strategy!

[BhuvanaMeenakshiK]

“Working on the internet to make it free of misinformation and fake news.”

This is cool!!

[BhuvanaMeenakshiK]

“Working on the internet to make it free of misinformation and fake news.”

This is cool!!

Would love to know on the accuracy on how well it will play a role like will it automated or will it be a manual check?

[kibatech]

Thank you for your interest in my project. We are looking at automating it. It will take the form of a plugin that will validate news reports and check for the authenticity of the reports.

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On Tue, 12 Feb 2019, 12:09 pm Bhuvana Meenakshi Koteeswaran, < ***@***.***> wrote: “Working on the internet to make it free of misinformation and fake news.” This is cool!! Would love to know on the accuracy on how well it will play a role like will it automated or will it be a manual check? — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#95 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ANWi55gGzPI9Hrp9pH9P4HmW1-DsgdlZks5vMqDdgaJpZM4aTU0N> .

[abhayrjoshi]

Hello Kibatech, Can you please elaborate on how you are going to automate it? How would the authenticity of the reports be determined?

[kibatech]

By fact checking the news report on reputable platforms and reliable resources. We can grade the reports as Reliable, Not too reliable, Yet to be verified, Unreliable. We are still working on the schematics. We have not concluded yet.

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On Tue, 12 Feb 2019, 2:45 pm Abhay Joshi, ***@***.***> wrote: Hello Kibatech, Can you please elaborate on how you are going to automate it? How would the authenticity of the reports be determined? — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#95 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ANWi5-AW0wTMdF_JIJCY0WJ40r-Ar8A9ks5vMsWCgaJpZM4aTU0N> .

[abhayrjoshi]

So, at times, the "reliable" and "reputable" sources also pick up the viral content that is moving around, with less focus towards authenticity. How do you tend to classify that?

[kibatech]

You are right but we will be very stringent in the choice of our platforms. Also, when we will continuously review and improve our algorithms in a bid to make sure they are addressing the focus challenge of Fake news.

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On Tue, 12 Feb 2019, 3:04 pm Abhay Joshi, ***@***.***> wrote: So, at times, the "reliable" and "reputable" sources also pick up the viral content that is moving around, with less focus towards authenticity. How do you tend to classify that? — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#95 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ANWi51_3VfQYXIOFkFfd6Yun7mLEReKpks5vMsnTgaJpZM4aTU0N> .

[samcilla]

The spread of misinformation can cause several harms online, it's a great thought and start but how will your automation work in verifying fake news? Awesome vision by the way

[anacarolinards]

@abhayrjoshi did good questions. If the tool could bring tips and information educating the user on how to do their own checking, it would be great!

[kibatech]

Thanks for the insight and feedback. It means a lot to this project. I'm looking for collaborators and resource persons that can support this project. I'm always open to new ideas. Best regards. Kayode.

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On Wed, 20 Feb 2019, 4:39 am Ana Carolina Rodrigues, < ***@***.***> wrote: @abhayrjoshi <https://github.com/abhayrjoshi> did good questions. If the tool could bring tips and information educating the user on how to do their own checking, it would be great! — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#95 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ANWi5xti3RYuKwPvswU_zYOev-h3xHN9ks5vPMONgaJpZM4aTU0N> .