United we stand! The new synergy between MyType and Factiverse
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MyType and Factiverse: The first synergy for Fact-Checking directly on the CMS
In recent months, we have increasingly come to understand that the best work is done in teams, combining the skills and experiences of different actors.
At MyType, we know this well, which is why we have always sought to join forces with those who, like us, strive to deliver high-quality services and products in the service of journalism.
Starting today, I want to begin sharing all these valuable collaborations with you, revealing the faces and work of those who help us improve every day: I'm talking about our new collaboration with Factiverse, the company that helps organizations mitigate risk by identifying misinformation and hallucinations.
But let's start from the beginning: why do we need a search engine like Factiverse? And how does it work?
In an era where misinformation is increasingly pervasive, fact-checking is an essential tool for newsrooms to guarantee quality journalism, ensuring reliability and credibility. Accurate fact-checking maintains readers' trust, avoiding unfortunate errors that could compromise the publication's reputation.
Besides being an ethical obligation for journalists, fact-checking combats misinformation and low-quality AI-generated information and ensures that the news is truthful. Verifying and comparing the authenticity of sources is crucial to avoid publishing news based on unconfirmed rumours.
This is why MyType integrates Factiverse's search engine into its CMS, an innovative tool essential for ensuring higher quality and control of facts, with more security and in less time
The ability to quickly verify information with reliable tools is fundamental in a competitive market: speed and accuracy can only be guaranteed by advanced AI-driven technologies. It is within this framework that the new partnership between MyType and Factiverse is established, the first synergy that brings fact-checking directly to the CMS level.
MyType is the first and only CMS to have natively integrated Factisearch from Factiverse. Integrating Factisearch into our CMS means providing concrete help for the journalists who use our system and the model of usage is very simple: the journalist will find a tab next to the writing editor that can be used as a fact-search engine. There, a list of sources will appear, and the tool can confirm or reject the news being written - in 55 languages - thus avoiding falling into false information. Although the verification work of sources remains on the journalist, Factisearch is certainly an extra help, especially in moments of urgency and when there are many news items to write and check.
The floor is yours, Factiverse!
Factiverse has been building their own AI model since 2016 as part of the University of Stavanger research. Factiverse’s model outperforms leading LLMs in a variety of tasks like detecting claims in large amounts of content and finding credible and nuanced sources. “Over 2 billion people are voting this year in countries including the United States, India, Mexico, and South Africa, and the amount of false information on elections is spreading fast. By using Factisearch, journalists can find the most relevant and recent fact-checks from the whole world in 55 languages and quickly get an overview of election disinformation”, says Maria Amelie, CEO and Cofounder of Factiverse.
With Factiverse tools, decision-makers in media verify crucial textual information, news, reports, chatbots and AI content. The goal? Simple, to be the backbone of credibility for businesses worldwide!
And you, what do you think? Would you like to integrate AI into your editorial workflow as well? Would you like to propose some ideas for us to work on together?
Do you have an innovative idea and would like to integrate it into your editorial flow? contact our AI team or send me an email (sforni@atex.com) we can do it together!
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Sara