BPU Holdings Uses Advanced Technology to Filter Fake News

ZimGO Polling and Neil News Curator Have Applied Systems to Deliver Authentic Information

SEOUL, South Korea--()--Fake news – it’s a term that has become all too familiar today. With the ever-increasing flow of information, trustworthy news has become increasingly debatable. The journal Science reports false news stories are 70% more likely to be re-tweeted than true stories, true stories take about six times longer to reach an audience and fake news is shared nearly 10 times more than true stories1. BPU Holdings uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) and advanced technology in their products and services to omit unreliable information to better diversify the quality of valuable information. ZimGO Polling and Neil’s News Bot use a distributed and scalable filtering processes to manage quality control of fake news to give their users an authentic experience.

ZimGO Polling is BPU’s political forecasting tool that uses Twitter social networks to connect to the empowered citizen in ways not possible with legacy tools. It is the first campaign tool to accurately assess emotional citizen sentiment that provides a competitive advantage for campaign professionals and candidates. It was determined the most valuable citizen information was found on Twitter. However, statistical processing was affected by the high volume of shared posts, re-tweets and spammers. To manage this, our AI interacts with the Twitter API to process streams of duplicates and unwanted noise. After the initial filtering, any re-tweets are discarded so the noise is highly reduced. A second measure is text filtering; distributed and scalable patterns are strained from the high numbers of duplicate tweets without jeopardizing the overall latency of stream results. If we notice the same text coming through, we assume it’s a duplicate. Going further, Similarity Deduplication is something currently being established to work on defining concepts to catch small nuances on a bot posting. In this third layer, we’re looking for small variations; for example, many bots post the same text except for the link and this third layer of filtering would trap those. A fourth level is provided by allowing people to tag posts as spam, which then further trains the AI to look for irrelevant posts.

Neil is BPU’s personal news bot. It is a personal news curator for artificial Intelligence (AI) that is a virtual assistant bringing reputable articles and interesting stories from reliable news sources. Unlike ZimGO Polling, it uses quality control with a white list of about 3,000 sources thoughtfully selected to provide our users with the best news on topics individuals have selected. Secondly, quality scoring is applied by manually checking the white list to ensure they are accurately providing the necessary and requested news the users search. This applies a second measure of filtering to avoid sources that are too short, lack text and contain an influx of links.

“When I used news aggregators, I noticed the topics and stories were random and the quality of news was low. It was overwhelming and I lost interest. I wanted to fix the problem so we built a technology that was curated, accurate and provides quality over quantity. It’s highly focused,” states Oh SangGyoon, CEO of BPU Holdings.

BPU’s CEO built the company on a simple idea – improve the lives of individuals through Artificial Emotional Intelligence (AEI). One measure of knowledge is information – how information is shared, where it’s coming from, how it’s applied; most importantly, what is shared. With sentiment analysis, natural language processing and machine learning, BPU Holdings is dedicated to advancing the human condition with trustworthy and honest information, as well as news.

About BPU

BPU Holdings is dedicated to generating the first Artificial Emotional Intelligent (AEI) platform — ZimOS. ZimOS is the foundation of AEI. Artificial Intelligence (AI) emulates how people think — AEI emulates how people feel. Individuals and organizations are overloaded with information. The four trends compounding this overload are: Mobile, Social, Cloud and Invasive Computing. The ZimOS platform is the foundation of products and services that enhance how we process data.

BPU advances the human condition by providing rigorous tools to improve emotional intelligence. Identifying and handling emotions enables management of interpersonal and professional relationships judiciously and empathetically. AEI is a synthesis of Natural Language Analysis, Machine Learning and Emotional Intelligence (EI). We are committed to building technology with Privacy by Design. Individuals and organizations have sovereign control and ownership of their ZimOS environment.

Information about BPU is available by contacting press[at]bpuholdings.com.

1 BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43344256

Contacts

BPU Holdings
Korea
Allison Kang, +82.2.548.9593
allison.kang[at]bpuholdings.com
or
U.S.
John Pilmer, +1.801.369.7535
john.pilmer[at]bpuholdings.com
or
Investors
Kim, Heawon, +82.2.548.9593
7777[at]bpuholdings.com

Release Summary

BPU Holdings’ ZimGo Filters Fake News with AI

Contacts

BPU Holdings
Korea
Allison Kang, +82.2.548.9593
allison.kang[at]bpuholdings.com
or
U.S.
John Pilmer, +1.801.369.7535
john.pilmer[at]bpuholdings.com
or
Investors
Kim, Heawon, +82.2.548.9593
7777[at]bpuholdings.com