Editoria e Media
Coming Soon SocialTruth: The Anti-fake News System That Provides Trusted Sociality
This is the (www.socialtruth.eu), a multicultural, multidisciplinary European project designed and led by Athens' ICCS, whose motto is "Embedding veracity for social media and web."
SocialTruth has been developed to fight fake news by employing state-of-the-art technologies. The originality of the project lies in the idea of . The initiative grants easy access to various verification services, ensuring scalability and building trust, in a completely decentralized environment. High reliability is the distinctive feature of the system, powered by block-chain technology, for distributed reputation and trust as well as enhanced security and auditability, with .
After a preliminary analysis that led to establish the functional requirements of the system, the technological architecture, ethic requirements and journalistic use cases, .
Lately, the project was presented by some members of the consortium at . There, the speakers discussed the remedies and solutions to the problems raised by the fast growth and spreading of Social Media, which have inevitably produced scarcely reliable and ungrounded news, a situation that is increasingly deteriorating.
, SocialTruth will benefit individual users, by checking the reliability of Social Media content and stopping misinformation, and will help media organizations, content authors and journalists to improve their investigative resources with a better option to crosscheck different multimedia sources and .
The functionalities of SocialTruth will be tested and assessed in four hands-on trials in different European sites and settings, addressing a wide range of end-users, use cases and market requirements, and in 2021, after 3 years of efforts and tests, it will be made available to the wide community.
The SocialTruth's consortium geography spans , namely Greece , Poland , France , Italy , Romania and the UK, supplying the required variety of challenges and their strong EU relevance.
Three widely recognised research organisations: - Institute of Communications and Computer Systems ( Athens - GR);
- University of Sciences and Technology (Bydgoszcz - PL);
- London South Bank University ( London - UK).
Three main technical partners, developers and software vendors: ( Paris - FR); ( Paris - FR) and ( Paris - FR); along with two experienced management consulting companies: ( Rome - IT) and (Modena - IT).
The SocialTruth consortium is complemented by two major news and media groups: ( Rome - IT) and ( Rome - IT) and by ( Bucharest - RO), a very active consumers' organisation.
The direct engagement of market actors and end-users will allow for a fast implementation of valuable and applicable results.
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Konstantinos Demestichas - ICCS
+30-210-7721478
cdemest@cn.ntua.gr
Fabrizio Galassi - Adnkronos Comunicazione
+39-366-6722512
fabrizio.galassi@adnkronos.com
www.socialtruth.eu - info@socialtruth.eu