The team came second at ’Hack.gov”, Italy's most important hackathon for Public Administration, where around 200 international young talents competed in a marathon of creativity. From May 4th to 5th, 2019, at the Apple Developer Academy in Naples, within the new campus of the University of Naples Federico II in San Giovanni a Teduccio, thanks to the collaboration between Agenzia Giornalistica Italia, Campania Region, the University of Naples Federico II and the patronage of the Agency for Digital Italy, around 200 international young talents competed in a marathon.”hackathon”within 48 hours, in the search for solutions to IT problems relating to software or hardware across multiple sectors.
Second Lieutenant Iannelli of the Air Force Academy, along with his team of 3 students from the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples, came in second, receiving a special mention, in the specific sector “Fact-checking“The team has developed the app “ for professional journalists.“Check again”that estimates the probability that a news item found on the internet could be a“Fake News“To arrive at the project definition, the team began, on the one hand, by analysing fake news – how it originates, its structure, and how it spreads so rapidly; on the other hand, it focused on the methodologies and algorithms commonly used to distinguish true news from false. The process led to the conclusion that the algorithm itself is not always sufficient, and therefore the user, in this case the professional journalist, is the tool for validating the algorithm's reasoning through assisted manual checking. Hack.gov, the most important Italian convention for programmers, developers, experts, and operators in programming and the web concerning Public Administration.
