Nexora: An AI-Powered Social Networking Platform for Misinformation Detection, Content Verification, and Trust-Aware Communities

Nexora combines AI-based misinformation detection, AI-generated-content analysis, third-party fact verification, privacy-preserving age assurance, and trust labeling into a single social platform. The core idea behind the design is to give users useful context about what they are looking at, instead of leaving them with only manual reporting or a plain fake/real label. By connecting content analysis, evidence verification, trust scoring, and human moderation into one pipeline, we are aiming to build a platform that is more transparent and trustworthy than what currently exists. The project is still under development, so the next steps are implementation, integration, testing, and measuring the results against the evaluation plan laid out in this paper.  

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