Graúna: um projeto experimental de verificação de notícias

Abstract

The ease of producing content on the internet, the infodemic and the lack of media education created a favorable space for the growth of disinformation on social networks. This problem generates a loss of journalistic credibility and shakes democracy. One of the possibilities for dealing with disinformation is news checking, which consists of proving or refuting, based on data and analysis, the veracity of a discourse or journalistic material. This report presents a bibliographic review on this journalistic practice and also describes the elaboration of Graúna, an experimental news checking project. The final product consists of two chat bots that perform content verification to combat misinformation, as well as an informative website and an Instagram profile. Graúna results from a series of research, bot programming, website and social networking profiles creation. At the end of the process, the project will continue to work and will seek funding to improve the performance of chat bots.