In Russia, artificial intelligence will be taught to look for lies and propaganda in texts

Linguists from the Russian State University for the Humanities will develop an algorithm for artificial

intelligence, which will look for methods of manipulating the reader in various texts. Discuss

To do this, specialists will study an array of textsof different directions and will identify manipulative techniques in them in order to influence the reader. In the process of training the algorithm, scientists will compare media materials and highlight from them the most striking and memorable, most quoted statements that relate to false facts and propaganda. From such texts a bank of manipulative quotes will be created.

In parallel with the texts, memes, video clips, and posts on social networks will be studied.

With the help of computational linguistics methods, a bank of emotionally colored texts consisting of 3 million words will be studied.