The AI-powered fact checker that investigates QAnon influencers shares its secret weapon

[AZProgressive]

When it comes to QAnon, there's one major player behind a majority of the investigations into who's responsible for some of the movement's far-right conspiracy theories. The fact-checking technology firm Logically has uncovered the failed screenwriter turned major QAnon promoter, the Citigroup executive secretly running a major QAnon hub, and the QAnon platforms connected to 8kun owner Jim Watkins — among others.

Founded in 2017 by CEO Lyric Jain, the company combines its AI tech with human fact-checking experts in order to uncover, track, archive, and debunk conspiracy theories ranging from QAnon to misinformation about COVID-19. The company already has a few public-facing products, such as mobile apps and web browser extensions to help users navigate online misinformation they may come across throughout their everyday internet use.

Now, the company has announced it’s opening up one of the secret weapons it's used to take on QAnon to third parties: Logically Intelligence, an AI-powered web platform that finds and analyzes online misinformation, as well as provides courses of action to take against it.

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Those using the platform in good faith also need to know that this tool won’t solve the misinformation problem. But by using Logically Intelligence, one can definitely help keep track of the problem, get a better understanding of how it’s spreading, and help squash specific false narratives. Perhaps they’ll even unmask some QAnon influencers of their own.

https://mashable.com/article/logically-intelligence-misinformation-monitoring-platform.amp?__twitter_impression=true

[crickets]

1. Wonderful to see someone is working on this.

As with any other tool, there is the concern it could be misused:

A core user base made up of government agencies brought up numerous concerns for me. Such as: What if a government agency tried to use the platform to classify critical factual information about the ruling administration as misinformation? Examples of this range from Myanmar’s new government cracking down on anti-coup protesters to U.S. law enforcement monitoring Black Lives Matter activists and propagandizing against protests last summer.

Oof.

For now though, while it's being used to root out the Qberts, it's a good thing.