Digital Green Book launched to combat disinformation

Onyx Impact introduced a digital green book designed to help the black community in navigation on the Internet full of disinformation.

It was launched originally of this month, provides black users with a platform for secure navigation on the Internet, protecting their data and obtaining reliable messages. The green book from the brand new era was inspired by the unique green book, which helped black travelers find secure spaces through the 30-year run in 1936–1966.

This green book from digital times serves as a guide to navigating online manipulation and disinformation. Tests will be seen These bots constitute 42% of the social media movement, affecting conversations and algorithms – 65% of them with harmful intention.

It eliminates barriers and directly refers to the proven fact that black users encounter disinformation at a rate 2.7 times higher than the final population.

“The digital green book for culture equips black communities with tools, tactics and resources to move around the digital world, which is often hostile”, Esosa Osa, founding father of Onyx Impact, he said In a press release. “Black people deserve access to accurate, real information to make informed decisions and control our digital future.”

The platform has been designed with 4 key goals: identification of online manipulation and disinformation, securing black children against harmful digital content, raising black media and corporations and promoting digital skills to improve critical online considering.

“We are in the information war,” Esosa said. “If we knew that almost half of the online interactions would not be real, we would be involved differently.”

The platform offers trouble -free parental controls that help black parents protect their children from racist content. Since disinformation disinoured disproportionately on individuals with low digital skills, the digital green book is working on enabling young people to function “digital navigators” in managing their communities.

To overtake the most recent technological trends, the platform incorporates an easily accessible website equipped with a tool for checking AI facts. Training with black -oriented messages, and helps users to confirm information immediately.

“Think about how the guide combined with the black chatgpt,” Esosa said.

For those that want to support the matter, Esos encourages everyone to support local black firms.

“If you subscribe to the main messages, but not a black newspaper, start with it. Investing in black media protects our stories,” she said.