Elections without Fakes
The "Elections without Fakes" project consisted of the development of a series of digital tools and algorithms to monitor and improve the transparency of the circulation of news and content during the 2018 presidential elections in Brazil. To this end, the Department of Computer Science of the UFMG produced 6 monitoring systems: the WhatsApp Monitor, for which automated scripts were generated to identify groups where fake news are spread; the Facebook Ads Monitor, for users to help identify the origin of candidate ads; the Botometer to identify if hashtags or trending topics are being mobilized by bots or by real users; News Side to Side, which compares various news sources on a same event; News Site Audit, which tracks the demographics of news websites; and the Audience of Politicians on Facebook, which distinguishes the demographic components of the followers of the candidates' Facebook pages.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- both
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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