Starting date:
1st April, 2024
European funding: 1,084,948.55 €. Funded by the European Commission. Under the Grant Agreement no. 101143249
“HATEDEMICS” – Hampering hate speech and disinformation through AI-based technologies to prevent and combat polarisation and the spread of racist, xenophobic, and intolerant speech and conspiracy theories”.
Aim Of the Project
The aim of the project is to strengthen the preventive and reactive measures against hate speech and disinformation online. It aims to empower NGOs/CSOs, factcheckers, public authorities and youngsters as activists to effectively prevent and combat polarisation, the spread of racist, xenophobic and intolerant speech, as well as conspiracy theories.
Primary Objective of the Project
The project’s primary objective is to address online hate and fake news, with a specific emphasis on tackling the often overlooked and interrelated issues that intersect between hate speech and disinformation.
What we will do
We will raise awareness and improve skills and critical thinking by advancing AI-based technologies that:
1) monitor, detect and record hate speech and disinformation on social media.
2) estimate the ‘HATEDEMICS risk’ as the sum of the ‘hate speech and infodemics risks’, i.e. the online exposure to (potential) hate and misinformative messages
3) create dialogue-based counter-narratives that support professionals and activists and facilitate advanced reporting activities by implementing an effective human-in-the-loop approach, whereby automated suggestions are always validated by human operators, who always have the final say on the posted content.
4) automatically assess behavioural changes determined by the counter-narrative intervention. The combination of these technologies will allow for more focused and timely online interventions (i.e. advanced targeted search followed by relevant textual suggestions), resulting in a more efficient and effective professional and volunteer effort. This approach is based on maintaining fairness and balance and ensuring adherence to legal and ethical standards.
HATEDEMICS In Action
The project will:
The Euro-Arab Foundation for Higher Studies has organised two meetings with fact-checkers, journalists, NGOs and activists to address hate speech, disinformation and digital environments
NGO/CSOs, fact-checkers, journalists and media companies, as well as public authorities and youngsters’ activists will benefit from this European project aimed at responding to online hate and fake news
The meeting of the Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers of the European Commission brings together more than 100 coordinators of projects financed by this department with the aim of promoting justice in the European Union.
With technologies based on Artificial Intelligence (AI), a consortium of European partners will develop HATEDEMICS, a project that aims to become a useful tool against the phenomenon of disinformation and hate narratives
