Client's challenge

Today’s media environment is awash with misleading, false and harmful content. False narratives that undermine our evaluative standards and sow hatred are disseminated with alarming ease and speed. As a result, it is growing harder to address challenges that require a collaborative approach and informed decision making. This is particularly so in the Arab world, where content moderation on social media is weak and a diverse array of operational challenge.

Approach

Combatting information disorder is no small job. That’s why we created the Disinformation Analysis and Listening Lab (Dalil), an AI-powered platform streamlining the fight against disinformation.

Who Can Use Dalil?

Everybody. Dalil is designed for anyone who wishes to monitor and verify content: information consumers doubting the veracity of a story, media workers tackling the spread of disinformation, civil society organisations working toward peacebuilding, as well as public and private organisations.

How Does It Work?

Dalil transforms and enhances content verification, delivering tailored and time-saving solutions that help navigate the relentless flow and evolving nature of disinformation. Automating the labour-intensive monitoring process, Dalil efficiently gathers data from diverse news outlets in varying languages. It clusters articles by topic and volume, providing users with a holistic view of trending issues. The platform enables users to search through this content, bypassing third party engines with opaque ranking algorithms.

Dalil’s comprehensive verification suite features a blend of proprietary and open-source analysis tools to help evaluate the reliability of images, videos and text. This eliminates the hassle of toggling between multiple resources or applications. Dalil’s adaptability is evident through its continuous integration of new tools that meet the needs of an ever changing media landscape.

A cornerstone in Dalil’s arsenal of verification tools, Dalil Check harnesses the power of AI to conduct comprehensive discourse analysis. This custom-built tool helps users flag subjective speech within blocks of text, along with rhetorical devices intended to sway reader perceptions. By providing this analysis, Dalil Check facilitates the identification of potentially dubious content, significantly enhancing the efficiency and productivity of fact-checkers.

What’s next?

The internet never sleeps, and neither does Dalil. We are constantly updating the platform with new tools and news sources as the information landscape evolves. We work closely with different user groups to identify their specific needs and tailor the platform to them. Dalil’s modular, language-agnostic architecture enables us to deliver upgrades seamlessly and at pace.

Outcomes

• Automated monitoring of 400+ MENA focused media outlets

• Streamlined verification and decision making

• Userbase of 230+ fact-checkers and media workers

• 30 partnering fact-checking entities