Social media,
Online Disinformation
and Elections

Tools and demos

Multi-lingual OCR for memes, adverts and other images

A service that detects areas of text, extracts the text from each area, and then determines the language of each block of text.

Demo and online API available via the GATE Cloud service page.

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WeVerify assistant

Guides users through the verification process in the InVID/WeVerify plugin. It suggests tools and runs relevant checks against online content in need of verification.

The InVID/WeVerify plugin is available as a Chrome extension through the Chrome Web Store.

Rumour veracity classifier

Classifies tweets based on whether the claims they make are true, false or unverifiable.

Demo and online API available via the GATE Cloud service page.

URL domain analysis

Annotates URLs to highlight potential credibility information on the domain at which they ultimately point.

Demo and online API available via the GATE Cloud service page.

Stance classification

Classifies a reply to a tweet based on it's stance (support, deny, query, or comment) to the original.

Demos and online API access is available via GATE Cloud. There are two versions available, one for English only, and a multi-lingual version.

COVID-19 vaccine text categoriser

Assigns COVID-19 vaccine information to one of several categories, including

Demo and online API available via the GATE Cloud service page.

COVID-19 claim categoriser

Assigns claims about COVID-19 to one of several categories, including

Demo and online API available via the GATE Cloud service page.

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