InVID Verification Plugin

Country: EUROPE

Place:

EU-level

Period/duration:

The project run from 2016 to 2019 and received funding from the EU Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme


Promoter

Consortium of the InVID project:
•    Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH) – Information Technologies Institute (ITI)
•    Modul Technology GmbH
•    Universitat de Lleida
•    Exo Makina
•    WebLyzard Technology GmbH
•    Condat AG
•    APA-IT Informations Technologie GmbH
•    Agence France-Presse
•    Deutsche Welle
The InVID project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.


Aim

Reputable news organizations must thoroughly verify the quality coming from third-party sources before making it available to the public: InVID sustain a platform for knowledge verification to identify breaking news and judge the validity of content and video files that are shared across the WEB


Scope

1.    Reducing misinformation threats
2.    Assuring for quality-driven information
3.    Guaranteeing the reliability and reputation of independent journalist / news outlets


Target-group

Newsroom applications for publishers, newspapers, news organizations, journalists


Short Description

Quoting: https://www.invid-project.eu/description/ “In video veritas, if we divert the old Latin saying: In video, there is truth!” Breaking news is now available on online video platforms thanks to the digital media revolution and the convergence of social media with broadband wired and wireless connectivity. News organizations that deliver information via Web streams and TV broadcast frequently use user-generated videos of breaking and developing news events shared by social media to illustrate the story. However, there is deception in video as well. Reputable news organizations are forced to thoroughly vet third-party content before publishing it due to easy access to increasingly sophisticated editing and content management tools and the ease with which false information spreads on electronic networks.

This limits their ability to break news quickly and raises costs during lean financial times. With the help of this platform, innovative newsroom applications will be made possible for broadcasters, news organizations, journalists, newspapers, and publishers to incorporate social media content into their news output without having to wonder whether they can trust the source or how to get in touch with the user to get permission. Verified and rights-cleared video content will be easily accessible for integration into breaking and developing news reports, thanks to this measure. InVID, which has been verified by actual customer pilots, will assist in defending the news industry against the dissemination of fakes, falsehoods, damage to reputation, and lawsuits.


Results

At the following link is possible to access all the deliverables that the project has produced: https://www.invid-project.eu/deliverables/


Links/related materials:

https://www.invid-project.eu

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