Tools for Checking Disinformation, API Deployments & Automation in Social Street Smart for GSoC

There is a surfeit of information available on the internet, but separating the correct information from the pool of false truths and propaganda is difficult. Social Street Smart provides tools to its users to ascertain the validity of such information easily. This proposal aims to identify disinformation in images, which come in various forms like incorrect context matching or dated images with headlines to spread misleading ideas.

It discusses the development of APIs using Google's search algorithm. A prototype of a new user interface is being suggested for this API's front end.

The implementation of a method to provide the users with their own API keys, so as to minimise costs is also being proposed to be implemented.

Reliable and cost efficient implementations of the pre-existing as well as the newly developed APIs is necessary, and this project proposes using Amazon's AWS Lambda for doing the same.

Also, continuous integration and continuous delivery is sought to be implemented, for automating the publishing of the Google Chrome extension to the Chrome webstore.

The possibility of a Mozilla Firefox extension is also considered to increase the reach of the project.