“Journalism group Hacks/Hackers was awarded $5 million by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop software that would encourage ordinary Americans to warn their friends and family about misinformation in their online speech. Users of the software would confront alleged misinformation by replying with text recommended by the software…
According to a video demonstration of the software, the tool will tell users if a social media post is ‘harmful’ and, if it is, it ‘suggests relevant responses through tailored response examples or templates’ that users can copy and paste as responses.”