February 2024
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The growth of social media and user-targeted information reinforces the need to check sources to prevent the dissemination of unreliable content. In this context, an innovative solution is presented based on the established proliferation of push notifications and the potential identified in the TV ecosystem, since it connects multiple devices and platforms. The proposed approach aims to send news notifications with a high level of credibility through television as well as the latest news from local school newspapers. This strategy expects to engage audiences of different generations to promote family discussion and critical thinking about current topics. Furthermore, the dissemination of local events and releases of school newspapers intends to create a sense of community beyond the school while promoting social and local cohesion. This solution combines two on-going R&D projects that bring together the academia and well-established partners of the Portuguese industry, namely a news media company and an Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) provider. After the good results from a preliminary field trial to assess the receptiveness to news notifications on the TV, a second evaluation will be carried out with school students (who will create the news) and their families (who will receive the notifications at home). Finally, this solution aims to contribute with more knowledge for preventing fake news dissemination, and also to demonstrate the potential of a personalized notifications mechanism for delivering trustworthy information on the TV ecosystem.
