WIZO Rishon Lezion youth village teens create fact-checking bot (opens original article in a new tab)

Immigrant high school students in Israel developed a fact-checking bot and other projects to combat online misinformation as part of a year-long program.

• A group of immigrant high school students in Israel created a fact-checking bot as part of a year-long program on misinformation.
• The students participated in a hackathon where they developed projects to address disinformation and antisemitism.
• The winning project, CriticalMind, is a Telegram bot designed to analyze messages, images, and links for verification.