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The Reveal project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme under grant agreement N o 610928 Contact us: Project Coordinator: Antonis Ramfos Company: INTRASOFT International S.A. E-mail: [email protected] Design by DW Innovation Social Media Verification The project REVEAL focuses on verification technologies, tools and strategies. It aims to develop tools, components and strategies that aid journalists and Enterprise Community managers in identifying, assessing and verifying User Generated Content (UGC) on Social Networks. Main Objectives In REVEAL, we aim to reveal and analyse much more than bare content. The analysis framework for assessing the credibility of information found in Social Networks is based on three main pillars: Contributor , Content and Context. The analysis of the validity of Contributor concerns parameters such as trust, reputation and influence of an information source. Content validity is expressed through parameters such as the language used, the history and possible manipulations performed on the content. And finally, Context analysis examines whether the ‘what’, ‘when’ and ‘where’ of an online publication concur with each other. Joint analysis of the validity of Contributor, Content and Context provides a more thorough approach for revealing truthfulness. Challenges REVEAL’s challenges include (but are not limited to): discover and analyse communities on Social Networks - access, organise and sift through huge volumes of data from multiple Social Networks - deduce contextual relationships - discover provenance of information - portray all this information in an intuitive way for users to work with - contribute to the exercise of freedom of expression and access to information while safeguarding privacy - doing all of this at scale and in real-time, supporting live breaking news stories. Contributor Content Context What can we find out about the source of information? Does the posted content look reliable? Does the “what”, “when” and “where” stick together? www.revealproject.eu Reveal project partners:
