Cofacts Fake News Crossing :Colaborating fact-checking for Democracy

on-site

First pitched in 2016, Cofacts has been working on disinformation, propaganda and fact-checking chatbot for 4 years.Over 37,000 suspicious messages and fact-check replies were delivered to users, and their opendata and source code are also available to everyone. Cofacts provides tutorial ToolKit if you would like to develop your own fact-checking chatbot.

Cofacts is an open-source project meant to combating misinformation via a fact-checking chatbot on LINE; the tool connects instant messaging services and fact-check reports. Cofacts fights misinformation in Taiwan that’s been developed on a replicable, open source platform.

This 90 minutes workshop contains the introduction and the group activity; attendees would be divided into several groups, Cofacts would provide their experience and case studies among 2020, like in presidential election, COVID-19, Kaohsiung mayor recall vote...The workshop would research these ceaseless expanding misinformation and propaganda, and find out the counter narrative.

Although this session would be conducting via Mandarin, English case studies and activities provided if needed.

(The workshop is for the civic engagement, it is fine if you don't code. )