FACT CHAMPION - Fact-checker, Activist, and Academic Collaboration Tools: Combatting Hate & Abuse towards Minorities as well as Misinformation & Propaganda In Online Networks

事实核查、学术和社区协作工具：利用少数族裔主导的伙伴关系打击仇恨、滥用和错误信息（FACT CHAMP）将建立工具和基础设施，使最先进的研究和实践能够遏制在线错误信息。我们的平台FACT将简化和促进事实核查员、非政府组织、研究人员和社区领袖（特别是少数群体领袖）之间的合作。FACT将允许从业者和社区领袖安全地与学术界分享错误信息数据和研究挑战。与此同时，它也将使学术解决方案更容易在实践中使用。FACT CHAMP包括社会科学和计算机科学研究的融合，以及一系列非营利、创业、行业和学术合作伙伴。我们将与亚裔美国人和太平洋岛民社区密切合作，开展深入的民族志启发研究，这些社区在2019冠状病毒病疫情后，针对种族的错误信息和仇恨言论激增。我们还将开展三项概念验证活动，以了解如何在研究人员、事实核查人员和社区领袖之间开展深入而有意义的合作，打击仇恨、虐待和错误信息。通过这些活动，我们将推进对争议和仇恨内容检测的研究，提高我们对仇恨言论和错误信息的理解，最重要的是，迭代开发新工具并调整现有工具，以创建符合利益相关者需求的协作基础设施。

Fact-checker, Academic, and Community Collaboration Tools: Combating Hate, Abuse, and Misinformation with Minority-led Partnerships (FACT CHAMP) will build the tools and infrastructure to enable state-of-the-art research and practice to curb misinformation online. Our platform, FACT, will streamline and facilitate collaboration of fact-checkers, NGOs, researchers, and community leaders—particularly those from minority groups. FACT will allow practitioners and community leaders to share misinformation data and research challenges securely with academics. At the same time it will also allow academic solutions to be more easily used in practice.  FACT CHAMP includes a convergence of social science and computer science research and a range of non-profit, startup, industry, and academic partners. We will conduct in-depth ethnographic-inspired research in close partnership with Asian American and Pacific Islander communities where racially-targeted misinformation and hate speech have surged in the wake of COVID-19. We will also conduct three proof-of-concept activities to understand how we can best enable deep and meaningful collaboration between researchers, fact-checkers, and community leaders to combat hate, abuse, and misinformation. Through these activities, we will advance research on detection of controversy and hateful content, improve our understanding of hate speech and misinformation, and, most importantly, iteratively develop new tools and adapt existing ones to create collaboration infrastructure aligned with the needs of our stakeholders.