Fake News Detection

Type of the event: Workshop/training

Main theme/focus: Basic Digital Skills / Media Literacy

Main theme/focus: Digital literacy / Tackling disinformation

Date time start: 29/03/2022 15:00

Date time end: 29/03/2022 16:00

Number of hours: 1

Country: Romania

Region: Botoșani

City/Town: Botoșani

Organisation: Liceul de Artă "Ștefan Luchian"

Address of the event: Liceul de Artă "Ștefan Luchian", Bulevardul Mihai Eminescu, Botoșani, Romania

Url of the event: http://stefanluchian.eu/

Social media: https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/High-School/Liceul-de-Art%C4%83-%C5%9Etefan-Luchian-Boto%C5%9Fani-279744346370/

Tag or keywords: FAKE

Responsible (trainer/organizer): Andrascho Laura

Email of the organiser: laura.andras@gmail.com

Phone of the organiser: 0740090585

Target Group: School students

Number of participants: 25

Photos from the event:

The event is: Completed

Short description of the event:

How much of what we read on social media and on supposedly “credible” news sites is trustworthy? It is extremely easy for anyone to post what they desire and although that can be acceptable, there is the notion of taking it a step too far, such as posting false information online in order to cause a panic, using lies to manipulate another person’s decision, or essentially anything else that can have lasting repercussions.( https://www.csustan.edu/sites/default/files/groups/University%20Honors%20Program/Journals/02_stahl.pdf )

The aim of the fake news project is to help news readers to identify bias and misinformation in news articles in a quick and reliable fashion. We have collected news articles with veracity labels from fact-checking websites and used them to train text classification systems to detect fake from real news.

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