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AMMICO, an AI-based Media and Misinformation Content Analysis Tool

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: ammico (AI-based Media and Misinformation Content Analysis Tool) is a publicly available software package written in Python 3, whose purpose is the simultaneous evaluation of the text and graphical content of image files. After describing the software features, we provide an assessment of its performance using a multi-country, multi-language data set containing COVID-19 social media disinformation posts. We conclude by highlighting the tool’s advantages for communication research.

Source: Computational Communication Research

DOI: 10.5117/ccr2025.1.3.dumi

Authors: Delia Dumitrescu, Inga Sabine Ulusoy, Petr Andriushchenko, Gwydoin Daskalakis, Dominic Kempf, Xianghe Ma

Institution: Heidelberg University

Language: English

Topic: Misinformation and Its Impacts

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W4409247598

FWCI: 1.844

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