StartupRealities

StartupRealities No 93 LiveVerifier is a media analytics company which tracks and verifies the time when video footage is aired live (for the first time) on TV or on the internet. The company uses automation and artificial intelligence (AI) to determine if footage is novel and if it is being aired in real time. CEO QUOTE "When you are watching a TV report and you see the sign 'Live' in the corner, is it actually live in real time? Often recordings of the live footage are also run with the Live sign on, which creates confusion and uncertainty. LiveVerifier deals with this problem by following all mainstream TV channels as well as popular social media and internet channels," said company founder and CEO Livia Vermilione. Dutch Prime Minister on live TV (image source: Wikipedia )

StartupRealities No 86 WikipediaEntry is a media and PR company that creates by request Wikipedia articles on people, companies or products. The company does not guarantee to its customers that any newly written Wikipedia article will not be deleted. However, using the company's services increases the chance that the article will meet the notability threshold required by Wikipedia. CEO QUOTE "We are not magicians. We simply know how to write well and reference thoroughly an article on a subject of certain notability. Beyond that it is up to the (volunteer) Wikipedia editors if the article will survive the two major hurdles: 'immediate deletion' and 'proposed for deletion'. We normally would not take on a project if we expect it to result in immediate deletion. Yet, sometimes grey areas do exist in this space and we can help turn the grey closer to white" said WikipediaEntry founder and CEO Wiktor Entchev. Wikipedia logo (image source: Wikipedia )...

StartupRealities No 81 StoryFinder is a crowdsourcing and AI company that collects interesting stories for use in education, government, politics and the media. The company's AI bot trawls Wikipedia, news websites and school textbooks for interesting stories that can be repurposed and used in different ways. StoryFinder also crowdsources stories from the public in the format of various competitions and entertainment games. The company publishes a series of popular books called "100 Stories on ...". CEO QUOTE "Stories are fascinating education and learning tools. No one can resist a speaker who starts with 'Let me tell you a story.' What if the entire school curriculum could be put in 10,000 stories? Would so many children still reject formal education then?" - asked company founder and CEO Stormy Finn. Storyteller (image source: Wikipedia )

StartupRealities No 16 EscalateTruth Limited is a fact-checking, fact-verification and fake news filtering company that plays the role of "arbiter of truth" in media. The company's verification process does not involve judgements on matters of opinion (e.g. is Donald Trump good or bad) but flags incorrect facts, fake news and factual lies. VERIFICATION PROCESS The company's fact checking and verification process goes through four hierarchical levels:      1. ALERT An investigation is triggered either after notification by a human reader or automatically as a result of an AI algorithm (spider or bot) spotting potentially incorrect factual information in the media. Whenever a reader uses the "citation needed" label (commonly seen on Wikipedia) to tag a piece of information, this triggers an investigation by EscalateTruth.      2. POPULAR VOTE The disputed facts are put to popular vote among online readers, who are given three possible options: True...