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The WhatsFarzi or WhatsFake App can be used to authenticate visual and textual information based on Knowledge Graph stored in a secured database. The app restricts fake news on social networking platforms.
Three B.Tech Computer Science students from Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi have created an app called “WhatsFarzi” that will prove handy to distinguish fake news from authentic news. Users can use both the visual and textual features of the app to confirm the credibility of the news.
The app will create a relationship between various entities like places, names, products etc which will be stored as a knowledge graph in the app database. When a user request information regarding an image or article, the app will recognise the relationship from the knowledge graph and later display the “Score of Authenticity”.
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“The rapid spread of fake news over various social networking websites like Facebook, Twitter etc inspired a Ph.D. student from IIIT-Delhi to develop a browser extension of Google Chrome for both social networking platforms in 2015,” said an IIIT-Delhi Associate Professor Ponnurangam Kumaraguru. He also said that the creation of the “WhatsFarzi” app will lead the fightback against the growing threat of fake news.
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Reportedly, the three students Suryatej Reddy Vyalla (20), Madhur Tandon (22) and Dhruv Kuchhal (23) started working on the app during August 2017 primarily due to a series of lynchings which took place due to the spread of fake content on Whatsapp.
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