At the beginning of September, the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) relaunched the service called “FATO OU RUMOR”, which aims to reinforce the fight against disinformation in the period we are in, with the proximity of the elections 2022. TSE's virtual assistant had already been launched in 2020 in a pioneering partnership that was made with WhatsApp, and ended up being renewed for use this year.
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Approximately half a million people have already registered and may also be searching for some terms on the official TSE account. This ends up facilitating the consultation of information about the electoral process in our country that has already been verified by some agencies. partners of the Electoral Justice, such as, for example, Agência Lupa, Aos Fatos, the Comprova project and also the Estadão Checks.
To use the tool, just send the subject or the link related to the electoral process to carry out some research. The program's Artificial Intelligence will do a search and bring up the contents that have already been checked on the researched topic.
If the content you requested does not yet have any matches with verified information, it will be forwarded to a group of people who check the information and facts. The moment the content is available, you will receive a notification with the answer and you will know if it is real information or fake news.
To use the tool provided by the TSE, it is only necessary to send a “HI” to the number (61) 99637-1078 on WhatsApp. This tool was made free of charge by the company INFOBIP, which is one of the main service providers for business in the messaging application.
For these elections, the Chamber of Deputies and also the TSE signed a partnership to try to combat fake news and try to adopt some measure to discourage the spread of fake news in the nets. The initiative also aims to denounce illegal conduct in some election campaigns, such as sending mass political propaganda messages that violate the law.
This partnership also has the rule of defending the integrity of the electoral process and the reliability of the electronic voting system, as well as the dissemination of official TSE content.
In addition, since September 2019, the Chamber has been using a tool to check the facts that are related to the activities at the Congress, which was named Comprove, and also has its functionality directly within the Whatsapp.
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