Momahmoses/ng-electoral-misinfo-detection

||Multi-modal electoral misinformation detection for Nigeria using AASIST audio deepfake detection, YOLOv8 INEC document forgery analysis and XLM-RoBERTa 5-language classification for INEC and fact-checkers. # Electoral Misinformation Detection, Nigeria > Multi-modal AI system detecting audio deepfakes, fabricated INEC documents, and fake news text in Nigerian English, Pidgin, Yoruba, Hausa, and Igbo, built for INEC, fact-checkers, and civil society ahead of Nigeria's election cycles. Trained on actual 2023 election misinformation patterns. --- ## The Problem Nigeria's 2023 general elections were flooded with: - **AI-generated audio deepfakes** of presidential candidates making fabricated statements - **Forged INEC result sheets** and press releases declaring fictional vote tallies - **Coordinated WhatsApp campaigns** sharing fake INEC announcements before counting was complete - **Fabricated court orders** purporting to halt elections in specific states No real-time detection system existed for Nigerian electoral context. The result: genuine public confusion, voter suppression, and incidents of post-election violence traceable to misinformation spread. --- ## Solution: Three-Modality Detection Pipeline | Module | Technology | Target | |---|---|---| | **Audio Deepfake** | AASIST (spectro-temporal graph attention) | Fake candidate speech, voice cloning | | **Document Forgery** | YOLOv8 + BERT + PaddleOCR | Fake INEC result sheets, court orders | | **Multilingual Fake News** | XLM-RoBERTa (5 languages) | WhatsApp/social media fake text | --- ## Language Coverage | Language | Speakers (Nigeria) | Model Approach | |---|---|---| | Nigerian English | 100M+ | Fine-tuned XLM-R | | Nigerian Pidgin | 75M+ | Fine-tuned XLM-R | | Hausa | 63M | Fine-tuned XLM-R | | Yoruba | 45M | Fine-tuned XLM-R | | Igbo | 35M | Fine-tuned XLM-R | --- ## Stakeholder Integration - **INEC**: Automated monitoring of social media mentions of INEC + real-time forgery alerts - **Dubawa / AFP Nigeria**: API endpoint for submitting content for fact-check triage - **WhatsApp bot**: Public submission, forward suspicious message → verdict in < 60 seconds - **Election observers** (EU, AU, EC …