Fact-Checking across Language Barriers: AI Assistant Detects Disinformation in German, Russian, and Turkish

The tangible result of the project will be an AI assistant that CORRECTIV, a media organization dedicated to the public good, will integrate into the CORRECTIV.Faktenforum. CORRECTIV operates an independent fact-checking editorial team. With the CORRECTIV.Faktenforum, it also offers the first participatory project in the German-speaking world that involves people in the entire fact-checking process. Citizens can submit potential disinformation there, discuss it, and research it under the editorial guidance of CORRECTIV. With the help of the automated translation function, CORRECTIV will enable this exchange in German, Russian, and Turkish in the future.

To ensure the multilingual fact-checking initiative succeeds, representatives from the Russian- and Turkish-speaking communities are involved in its further development: “With the CORRECTIV.Faktenforum, we actively involve people in the fact-checking process while simultaneously building a structured dataset of false claims and facts. We are now applying this approach to a multilingual context,” says Caroline Lindekamp, Director of Fact-Checking at CORRECTIV. “This allows us to identify narratives from different linguistic regions earlier and analyze them systematically. The project combines participatory approaches with journalistic standards and AI-supported analysis, thereby creating a unique foundation for combating disinformation across languages.”