Fabula AI


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

Early History

Leadership

, Ernesto Schmitt, Federico Monti and Damon Mannion co-founded Fabula on 20 April 2018. The company raising an undisclosed sum from various individual angel investors. Michael Bronstein is chair in machine learning & pattern recognition at Imperial College, London 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.

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. It does this through its use of patented algorithms that use the emergent field of 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.
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.

Twitter Acquisition

On 3 June 2019, Twitter announced its acquisition of Fabula AI for an undisclosed sum.
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.