impact article: "The decision must remain with people"

A tool to combat hate speech and fake news: in her doctoral thesis, Computer Science researcher Mina Schütz from h_da is breaking new ground in tackling disinformation, propaganda, conspiracy theories and hate speech online. Instead of classifying content as “true” or “false”, the “DisDETECT” analysis tool, which she developed as part of her doctoral thesis, focuses on differentiation and transparency. The AI and Data Science expert’s doctoral thesis was produced at the Doctoral Centre for Applied Computer Science (PZAI) in cooperation with the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT).

You can read the full article, complete with images, in the h_da science magazine “impact”: https://impact.h-da.de/tool-gegen-hassrede-und-fake-news