Fabula AI

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Fabula AI
TypePrivate
IndustryDeep Learning & Fake news detection.
Founded20 April 2018; 3 years ago (2018-04-20)
Founders
Headquarters
London
ParentTwitter, Inc.
Websitewww.fabula.ai

Fabula AI is a Twitter-owned[1][2] London-based fake-news detection Deep Learning company founded in April 2018 by Michael Bronstein, Federico Monti, Ernesto Schmitt and Damon Mannion.[3][4]

Early History[]

Leadership[]

Michael Bronstein, Ernesto Schmitt, Federico Monti and Damon Mannion co-founded Fabula on 20 April 2018.[5][6] The company raising an undisclosed sum from various individual angel investors.[7] Michael Bronstein is chair in machine learning & pattern recognition at Imperial College, London[8] and began Fabula in collaboration with Monti while at the University of Lugano, Switzerland, where Monti was doing his PHD. Schmitt is a serial tech entrepreneur who, along with Mannion, co-founded Fabula.[9]

Company Vision[]

Fabula AI was founded to solve the problem of online disinformation, or 'Fake News' by looking at how it spreads on social networks rather than focusing on the content itself, as some other approaches do.[10][11] It does this through its use of patented algorithms that use the emergent field of "Geometric Deep Learning" to detect online disinformation — Fabula is able to employ Geometric graph deep learning to detect network manipulation. Graph deep learning is a method for applying powerful Machine learning techniques to network-structured data. The result is the ability to analyze very large and complex datasets describing relations and interactions and to extract signals in ways that traditional Machine Learning techniques are not capable of doing.[12]

By February 2019, Fabula AI was "able to identify 93 percent of ‘fake news’ within hours of dissemination". This 93% accuracy was achieved within a few hours of the news first appearing.[13][14]

Twitter Acquisition[]

On 3 June 2019, Twitter announced its acquisition of Fabula AI for an undisclosed sum.[15][16][17][18][19] A fit for Twitter as social media giants remain under increasing political pressure to get a handle on online disinformation to ensure that manipulative messages don’t, for example, get a free pass to fiddle with democratic processes.[20]

"Our acquisition of Fabula builds on other investments we’ve made in machine learning, for example, Madbits in 2014, Whetlab in 2015 and Magic Pony in 2016. Fabula's team will be joining the Twitter Cortex team of ML engineers, data scientists, and researchers. Cortex is the central ML org at Twitter with the goal to advance machine learning inside & outside Twitter."

— Parag Agrawal, Twitter CTO.[21][22]

References[]

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