d-AI-logue Disinfo Assistant — Georgios Petasis

d-AI-logue is your virtual assistant for informed online reading.

Every day we come across vast amounts of online data, news and information, many of which lack accuracy or aim to mislead. d-AI-logue assistant was designed to deal with this challenge.

Through thoughtful questioning and interaction, this virtual assistant trains you step by step to spot misleading content and disinformation.

d-AI-logue assistant empowers you to evaluate the accuracy of online information, guiding you to think critically and independently.

By design, d-AI-logue assistant aims to support your journey toward media literacy and critical thinking. It is suitable for various types of online reading, from browsing websites to scrolling through social media, enhancing your media literacy skills.

d-AI-logue assistant is specifically designed for citizens and youth, offering a dynamic and customised experience. This browser extension/add-on doesn’t just hand you fact-checked answers – it walks you through a dialectical process, helping you reach your own informed conclusions.

Access to the d-AI-logue assistant is free and anonymous as it is installed within your browser as an extension/add-on.

Key Features of the d-AI-logue assistant:

AI-Powered Guidance: You engage with an interactive assistant (chatbot) that uses reflective questioning to help you evaluate news and online content.

Micro-Lessons: You may access optional micro-lessons to deepen your understanding of media and digital literacy.

Easy Interface: The extension opens in a customisable browser sidebar that sits alongside the content you're viewing, providing real-time analysis, easily.

Adaptable User Interface: You can tailor the d-AI-logue experience to suit your preferences through the extension's settings menu, choosing from various options.

Keep an archive: You may save offline any content analysis performed for future reference, as well as your dialogues with the assistant.

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Reading online and distinguishing trustworthy information from mis/disinformation is getting more and more challenging. d-AI-logue assistant is here to teach you how to analyse the accuracy of the information you read online by guiding you to think critically.

d-AI-logue assistant supports citizens, especially youth, who want to explore the reliability of information, by cultivating their critical thinking and by guiding them through a dialectical approach to reach their own conclusions. Instead of just consuming a fact-checking result, the use of d-AI-logue assistant cultivates an active, informed and critical stance.

How can this be achieved? This innovative virtual assistant guides you through reflective questioning to detect mis/disinformation signals in news items, empowering you to make informed decisions about their accuracy. For additional knowledge, you may dive deeper with optional micro-lessons and join our vibrant discussion forum for extra support in navigating the digital information landscape.

The d-AI-logue assistant extension offers a user interface contained in a browser “sidebar”, an area appearing next to a Web page. The user is able to customise this user interface according to their preferences. Available settings include the ability to select a light/dark theme (defaults to “auto”, trying to decide on a light/dark theme based on browser settings), the ability to show/hide the “header” (the top toolbar) and whether it can be “fixed” or “static”, the ability to control the navigation within the d-AI-logue extension, by selecting between a sidebar or a top-level menu, the ability to show the user menu, and the ability to set the text direction (left-to-right/right-to-left). Settings are stored in the browser’s cache and are remembered until the d-AI-logue extension is uninstalled.