5 Free Open Source Digital Tools to Combat Disinformation

Several news outlets across Brazil are participating in the Codesinfo project to produce digital tools to fight disinformation.

Capí chatbot is an artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Ambiental Media to provide clear, up-to-date, and reliable answers to users’ questions on climate issues.

Check-up is a solution created by fact-checking site Aos Fatos to analyze health advertisements on major Brazilian news sites that may contain misleading information.

Mosaic : Transforming Text into Videos is a Python library created by major newspaper Folha de S.Paulo to convert text into short videos using artificial intelligence.

Xarta : Always Up-to-Date Context is a system that automates the process of giving context to articles.

The plugin “Quem Disse?” is a WordPress extension inspired by LinkedIn that makes it easier to build and standardize journalist profiles.

Xarta eliminates the need to rewrite the context of the same topic several times and also prevents the reporter from having to manually go back to old articles to include important contextual information.

Each newsroom can create its own Xarta , but they can also use context cards from other media outlets that have been released for reproduction.