Artificial Intelligence

BotSlayer is an application that helps track and detect potential manipulation of information spreading on Twitter. The tool is developed by the Observatory on Social Media at Indiana University --- the same lab that brought to you Botometer and Hoaxy.

Botometer (formerly BotOrNot) checks the activity of a Twitter account and gives it a score based on how likely the account is to be a bot. Higher scores are more bot-like. Increasing evidence suggests that a growing amount of social media content is generated by autonomous entities known as social bots. Many social bots perform useful functions, but there is a growing record of malicious applications of social bots.

This project uses advanced machine learning techniques to detect propaganda accounts on Twitter.

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In 2018 we launched Bot Sentinel to help fight disinformation and targeted harassment. We believe Twitter users should be able to engage in healthy online discourse without inauthentic accounts, toxic trolls, foreign countries, and organized groups manipulating the conversation.

Blackbird .AI views the spread of disinformation as one of the world’s largest threats to national security, business, and the public as a whole. To combat disinformation, Blackbird.AI seeks to expose those continually spreading disinformation. Made up of a team of entrepreneurs, technologists, national security experts, and journalists, Blackbird.AI seeks to maintain order and clarity to information in society, particularly in the digital space.

"Al Sur" is a consortium of organizations that work in civil society and academia in Latin America and that seek with their joint work to strengthen human rights in the digital environment of the region.