Reality Vertigo

[ UUID ] c705fd31-ce2a-45fa-9691-12f865f89f49

[ Session Name ] Reality Vertigo [ Primary Space ] Openness [ Secondary Space ] Youth Zone

[ Submitter's Name ] Shina Dhingra [ Submitter's Affiliated Organisation ] HSBC

[ Other Facilitator 1's Name ] Pranshu Khanna [ Other Facilitator 1's GitHub ] @pransh15

What will happen in your session?

This interactive session will seek answers to the questions, "Why is it important to detect misleading information that's available online?" & "What are the societal consequences & ramifications to the mass consumption of misleading information which is often dubbed as fake news?" The session is divided in two phases: I.Categorization:Attendees will get into groups to come up with potential categories under which data sets can fall to decide a categorization scheme. We'll project examples for the audience to identify from the fake and noisy data created on social media. II.Solution Building :It involves brainstorming and prototyping algorithms and solutions along with the audience's participation to make sure that at least some of what people see online is, in fact true.

What is the goal or outcome of your session?

The goal of the session is for the attendees of any age to understand what is fake news, evaluate the information online to identify the consequences, have a general discussion on how, by doing this, the trust in statistics and facts and real news, can be restored. Having human intelligence and not artificial intelligence as the key input for this session since AI won't be affected by consuming misleading information, human lives will. The output will be a model that can accurately predict the likelihood that any given article could be a sham. More so, the very people who get affected by these gimmicks and the ones around them could be well informed about protecting themselves.

If your session requires additional materials or electronic equipment, please outline your needs.

A projector, pens, papers.

Time needed

60 mins