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AI company Seekr and survivalist Bear Grylls are aiming to develop the “survival skill” of digital media literacy through their latest educational platform Mission Seekr.
The company originally announced the project in June as an effort to arm the next generation “with critical media literacy tools and the confidence to safely navigate the online landscape.”
“At Seekr, we’re committed to creating a more informed society and empowering people to make smart and educated decisions about the content they consume,” Pat Condo, CEO of Seekr Technologies said in a statement. “Together with Bear Grylls, we’re embarking on a groundbreaking adventure to develop critical media literacy skills and bring trust to the online experience.”
Speaking with Fox News Digital, Condo explained how his platform differs from traditional fact-checkers.
Survivalist Bear Grylls announced a new project called “Mission Seekr” in June (Seekr Technologies)
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“What we do is we analyze the article as a whole and then depending upon the different signals we extract, we essentially assess it, whether it’s more credible or less credible, more like a directional kind of position as opposed to an absolute position,” Condo said.
He explained, “I felt that something as a real public service actually is that everyone has the right to high quality information. Everybody has the right to make decisions based on what is the most credible. And we know that in a democracy, the final vote can change the course of history. And if we don’t, you have the right information in the hands of people, then we’re going to choose a path that may not be the best.”
Condo elaborated on his company’s efforts to develop “digital survival skills” on par with wilderness survival skills.
“We wanted to take a complex subject which is identifying false and misleading information, and we wanted to build it into…
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