International Business Machines Corporation
PRESENTING THOUGHT-PROVOKING QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS IN RESPONSE TO MISINFORMATION

Abstract:

To reduce misinformation consumption in the media, a computer-implemented method is described for presenting thought-provoking information about a media product that includes receiving media consumption data indicating a media product was consumed via a computing device user interface; determining claims for the media product; identifying a plurality of related media products based at least on a topic of the media product; determining positions for the plurality of related media products with respect to the one or more claims; determining a most contested claim as a claim that satisfies a condition corresponding to having a predetermined number of disagreeing related media products; generating a question based on the most contested claim and a paragraph including the most contested claim; generating an answer to the question based on the question and the related media product that disagrees with the most contested claim; and presenting the question and answer via the user interface.