This activity aims to design and develop innovative solutions to identify and manage information disorder threats that come alive through fake news and deep fake spreading. These malicious actions, leveraging people’s cognitive bias, generate citizens’ disapproval and media and institutions untrust. The project will utilize a multidisciplinary approach leveraging open source automation achieved through Intelligence Analysis, recent advancements in Artificial Intelligence, and knowledge from political and geopolitical sciences. Firstly, it aims to check news content’s truth and the reliability of news sources. The objective is to implement text and multimedia content analysis methodologies to detect meaningful patterns to be used for finding disinformation attempts. Moreover, the analysis of Social Media communities will give evidence of the cognitive vulnerabilities of participants and threats related to fake news spread. The objective is to design an early alerting system for debunking false information by leveraging the syntactic integrity of contents and patterns related to disinformation flows. The resulting framework aims to generate people’s awareness about risky behaviors associated with sharing questionable content. Moreover, the framework will support experts and security officers in decision making by adopting a human-in-the-loop approach.

Geographic scope: PNRR

Start date: 1 January 2023

End date: 31 December 2025

Project Coordinator: Manco Giuseppe

Project website: https://serics.eu/en/services/spoke-2-disinformazione-e-fake-news/