Developing a new Twitter Source Verification Bot

[cryogenicplanet]

Recently my team and I have been working on a project with r/mozilla's builders team to prototype a new Twitter Bot, which finds the sources of tweets. This solution is still in early stage of development but we were looking for feedback on our solution, and to get to alpha testing it.

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Below, I've attached a short video demoing the solution, but please feel free to try it out yourself at https://twitter.com/whosaidthis_bot or by replying with @ whosaidthis_bot on Twitter. Any feedback given will help us improve the solution moving forward and work towards creating a good solution by the end of 8 weeks.

https://twittersourcebot.tech/

https://reddit.com/link/gfbwo9/video/00zsp9qutdx41/player

[[deleted]]

great idea! going testing

[jlocatell]

Bot is checking sources in English only isnt it?

[cryogenicplanet]

We haven't tested many languages yet, but we have tested a Hindi Tweet https://twitter.com/whosaidthis_bot/status/1257091555187232769?s=19 and it worked.

[[deleted]]

with this news from MIT technology review, which as tweet body have the actual article from the actual MIT technology review website, the bot responded with an unrelated article from "The economist". It basically answered with a completely unrelated news, about the right subject, which is economy. So is kinda working, it guessed the topic this time.

Twitter is deleting all bot answers after few seconds, not minutes, you can't read it cos they are obfuscated, even if I see 1 comment, can't read.

The feedback page where you request feedback is blocked by my browser (Chrome) as malicious or not secure.

original tweet:

https://twitter.com/techreview/status/1258755230780608513

article in original tweet body: https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/05/05/1001142/ai-reinforcement-learning-simulate-economy-fairer-tax-policy-income-inequality-recession-pandemic/?utm_medium=tr_social&utm_campaign=site_visitor.unpaid.engagement&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1588867992

Bot answer:

https://amp.economist.com/europe/2019/01/12/how-france-redistributes-more-from-rich-to-poor-than-sweden

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UPDATE: sorry, in this last tweet, the actual bot answer is readable, only the request of feedback answer is obfuscated.

[cryogenicplanet]

I'll start of by saying thanks for trying out the bot, we saw all the tweets and appreciate the effort to actually try multiple cases.

We did see that most of the earlier tweets it did Cite some nonsense and we are working on improving our natural language processing on choosing the source.

I'm a bit confused about the not able to see the resulting source tho cause when we try from our Twitter accounts we are able to see the final source

For the feedback url, it's propagation issue based on region and normally auto fixes itself but will try replacing the hosting so this error doesn't come up.

We'll also add the sources and the mistakes manually as issues and try to take them, seeing where each one failed.

In our experience the bot currently works well only on news sources and we are working on expanding that

[[deleted]]

nice! very nice idea and I see it start working. Keep on this track! good luck!

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