Currently, when the social media giants struggle to control fake news prior to the Lok Sabha polls in India, an Indian-origin tech junkie is not happy with this and according to him, the nation needs better human-centric Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based solutions to fight the escalation of wrong information. Lyric Jain, a 22-year-old Cambridge and MIT graduate, says social media platforms and other stakeholders, including the government, may design solutions to fight fake news but there will be anomalies, as is with the case with any technology.

Jain told, “India needs to prepare better as the stakes are high. Facebook is taking the problem of fake news seriously but there are many other digital platforms that aren’t working towards that direction.” Depicted by Jain, Logically has been developed by a varied team of data scientists, coders, designers and journalists.

Addition of a layer of reliability to the Internet to battle wrong information, the Logically platform works as a real-time, user-friendly filter, guaranteeing users can quickly consume information that is fair, authentic, credible and trusted (FACT). “News isn’t just limited to media houses anymore. The idea is to create ‘responsible sharing’ among people,” said Jain. “Logically will analyze whether the information is fake or not, even if the information is being provided by a well-known journalist from a credible publication,” he added. When asked how the technology works, Jain replied: “It is a human-centric AI effort”.

Further Jain added - "We then combine these indicators and conclude whether the news is credible or not. Also, our human fact-checking team complies with the international fact-checking standards.”

Jain told that the fake news and political debate about Brexit and 2016 US Presidential elections compelled him to launch the platform.

According to Jain, during the approaching Indian General Elections, Logically will try its best to monitor the information flow with its deep learning algorithms and web graph of several websites from top publishers across the globe. The tracing of these websites leads to the identification of top quality sources of trending and quality news per category along with queries and articles.

Additionally, Jain asserted – “Logically will look for information that is misleading, distorting or interfering with the elections”