TICTeC 2018: CoFacts, the chatbot that combats misinformation.
Channel: mySociety
Date: 2018-05-08

Speaker: Wu Min Hsuan (Ttcat), Open Culture Foundation / g0v.tw, Taiwan.  

Misinformation is easily spread in closed messenger groups such as Whats App and its popular Asian equivalent, LINE; and such groups are hard to monitor.

Enter CoFacts, a collaborative fact-checking chatbot with access to a database of hoaxes and misinformation. With over 20,000 users each week, it’s now also possible for its instigators to see how false information is spread.