debunking it better with the Database of Known Fakes

 Verifying online content can be a long and tiring process, and recent advances in AI have made it even easier to create and spread false and misleading texts, images and videos. Rushing to the rescue are tools that help journalists and fact-checkers verify such information, one of which is the Database of Known Fakes

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. Called DBKF for short, the database was developed as part of an earlier EU project called WeVerify
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. Now, it has been further enhanced under the EU-funded vera.ai
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The DBKF’s main purpose is to help professionals such as journalists, open-source intelligence investigators and human rights defenders save time and be more efficient in their fact-checking and debunking tasks. Has a claim, image or video already been debunked by trusted, IFCN-approved
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posted on the vera.ai website. Users can search using a key phrase, filter by language, fact-checking source, author, location and other concepts, and sort results by date or by relevance.








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The training is open to all stakeholders fighting disinformation. Participants will learn how to use the advanced tools needed by fact-checkers, journalists and researchers fighting disinformation, and get insights on new features, such as the vera.ai (vera.ai: VERification Assisted by Artificial Intelligence) project’s synthetic media detector. Other benefits include access to the beta release.



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