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FAke News discovery and propagation from big Data ANalysis and artificial intelliGence Operations

Project description

Ensuring trustworthy communication for all

Fake news has become a pressing issue globally, encompassing political, social, and business challenges. In Europe, the lack of systematic knowledge and data sharing between organisations hinders the fight against this pervasive problem. In this context, the EU-funded FANDANGO project aims to harness cross-sector big data management and analytics, along with an effective interoperability scheme. Specifically, it will detect and verify various types of news data, media sources, social media, and open data. This groundbreaking initiative involves media companies, governmental institutions, the industrial ecosystem, and society as a whole. With a focus on climate, immigration, and the European context, FANDANGO will provide European citizens with transparent and reliable communication, setting a global example for responsible research and innovation.

Objective

Fake News are now a hot issue in Europe as well as worldwide, particularly referred to Political and Social Challenges that reflect in business as well as in industry. Europe is lacking of a systematic knowledge and data transfer across organizations to address the aggressive emergence of the well-known problem of fake news and post-truth effect. The possibility to use cross sector Big Data management and analytics, along with an effective interoperability scheme for all our data sources, will tackle this urgent problem, generating new business and societal impacts involving several stakeholders: a) Media Companies: news agencies, broadcaster, newspapers, etc, b) Governmental institutions and organisations, c) The overall industrial ecosystem, d) The entire society. The aim of FANDANGO is to aggregate and verify different typologies of news data, media sources, social media, open data, so as to detect fake news and provide a more efficient and verified communication for all European citizens. European tradition in democracy, journalism and transparency should play a wordwide example in fast changing society, where all citizens appears completely overwhelmed by the new technologies and by the new social challenges. The FANDANGO project aims to break data interoperability barriers providing unified techniques and an integrated big data platform to support traditional media industries to face the new “data” news economy with a better transparency to the citizens under a Responsible, Research and Innovation prism. This goal will be validated and tested in three specific domains Climate, Immigration and European Context, these are typical scenarios where fake news can influence perception with respect to social and business actions and where news can be verified and validated by trustable information, based on facts and data.

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IA - Innovation action

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(opens in new window) H2020-ICT-2016-2017

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Coordinator

ENGINEERING - INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA SPA
Net EU contribution

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€ 514 500,00
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PIAZZALE DELL'AGRICOLTURA 24
00144 ROMA
Italy

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Region
Centro (IT) Lazio Roma
Activity type
Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
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€ 735 000,00

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