KID: Fighting mis-/disinformation and fostering media literacy with the help of AI and digital tools - News - Innovation - DW.COM

The "tourist guy" pic, allegedly taken on top of the World Trade Center in NYC just seconds before the 9/11 attacks, is a classic example of a sensational, fabricated image circulated to millions of internet users, then via email. Misleading news, doctored visuals, disguised propaganda: The spread of digital mis- and disinformation has become a major problem over the last years, and it looks like the Corona pandemic has led to yet another peak. What better time to start a new verification project: KID, kicked-off in April 2020, will help counter the "infodemic" by fostering media and information literacy (MIL) and exploring artificial intelligence (AI) tools to improve verification processes. The acronym KID resolves to the German "Künstliche Intelligenz gegen Desinformation" (Artificial Intelligence against Mis-/Disinformation) and is funded by the BKM (Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien the German Government's Commissioner for Culture and Media). KID follows in the footsteps of and is partly linked to other DW verification/MIL projects and services such as Digger, Truly Media, or WeVerify.