Prosa.ai and Indonesian ministry fight fake news with "anti-hoax" chatbot
- Indonesia
- 3 min read
- May 10, 2019
- By Putu Agung Wija Putera
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Launched a week before the elections, this Telegram-based chatbot provides alternative references to read before you share
Natural language processing (NLP) startup Prosa.ai has partnered with the Indonesian Ministry of Communication and Informatics to develop and run an "anti-hoax" chatbot.
Users send a text-based query to the chatbot, which will read the text and cross-reference it against the ministry's database of fake news and misleading articles. If the chatbot predicts the text is fake news, it provides the user with articles to counter the false information. The chatbot was launched on the Telegram messaging app last month.
Scams and hoaxes are not new in Indonesia, but the rapid adoption of social m...
Users send a text-based query to the chatbot, which will read the text and cross-reference it against the ministry's database of fake news and misleading articles. If the chatbot predicts the text is fake news, it provides the user with articles to counter the false information. The chatbot was launched on the Telegram messaging app last month.
Scams and hoaxes are not new in Indonesia, but the rapid adoption of social m...
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