Value proposition

Operated by the Social Observatory for Disinformation and Social Media Analysis

SOMA (Social Observatory for Disinformation & Social Media Analysis) has been launched to provide support to a European community currently named as the 'European Observatory against Disinformation'​, that will jointly fight disinformation. The Observatory is one of the key goals (among others) that the SOMA project has.

Its aim is to support experts in their work against disinformation providing them useful infrastructure and connections to a wide community to collaborate with. The members of the Observatory will have the chance to exploit existing verification platforms along with new tools, algorithms, and processes that the SOMA project team members will gradually integrate and launch during the project’s duration.

To initiate the operation of the observatory SOMA is making available a platform for collaborative verification, where all experts will be able to work together for carrying out investigations against disinformation. This platform:
♦ is based on Truly Media (www.truly.media), co-developed by ATC and Deutsche Welle;
♦ also connects to existing verification tools such as TruthNest (www.truthnest.com);
♦ is expected to connect to many other tools that are being developed by relevant R&D projects;
♦ includes functionalities that provide an easy communication channel with official sources as the European Parliament, the European Commission and Eurostat for requesting their official position in ongoing investigations;
♦ will include additional data sources as the ones analyzed by the European Media Monitoring platform.

Furthermore, SOMA is in negotiations with the major social networks to gain better access to their content and data.

✉ How to join
Please send your request to info@disinfobservatory.org together with a short profile of your organization/team and up to 3 email addresses for individuals you would like us to register on the platform.