Crowdsourced data to help differentiate real news from hoaxes, say developers
Seeking to scotch Rumal identify fake news on social media platform WhatsApp our team of expert at a New Delhi based institution is working on developing an application that may be able to tell you whether a message is fake or not. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, associate professor of computer science at the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi is heading the team which is developing the app that seeks to determine the authenticity of message circulated on this platform.
Rumours on WhatsApp have sparked off a spate of incidents involving mob Fury, including On where five men were lynched on the suspicion of being child lifter in Maharashtra Rainpada village.
Recently A man was beaten to death and 3 others were injured after remove attacked dams suspecting them to be child lifter near Bidar in Karnataka.
The professor feels that the application will be useful tool in the current scenario where number of such incidents have been reported in which people were killed in violence, triggered on the basis of rumour circulated on WhatsApp.
"We are collecting a large amount of data and have asked people to Forward us on the number 93543 25700. These messages will be analysed and accordingly we will develop a model of putting wrapper on search messages," he added.
For example, if a message is received there will be colour quotes that will indicate the authenticity. A green might indicate that it is limited content yellow colour might indicate that the system is not able to decode it while red light indicate that it is definitely fake content, he said.
"Thuogh the messages received, we will study the common factor in such message is. The commonality might be an image a, URL for some words. If it is a forwarded message it is a high probability that it is a fake message," said the professor.
He said the app is likely to be ready in a couple of months.
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