Online debates are often polarising and toxic, causing a big moderation workload and offering little real insight into your audience’s sentiments and opinions.
Rhetoric enables online debate without the risk of disrespectful or offensive language dominating the debate, thanks to live AI moderation.
"We use Rhetoric at least once a day, especially on emotional topics , and this has been a great success. Rhetoric means less work than our comment section, less toxicity, more attention time, and more constructive debates."
Amien Idries, Deputy Chief Content Officer at Aachener Zeitung
Can we create a digital environment that allows a safe space for debate again?
Yes, we can. Rhetoric was developed so as to improve the quality of online debate and create a respectful debate environment. Rhetoric stands for “Reducing Hate with Editorial Tools for Online Reactions and Comments”.
The tool consists of a front-end debate tool and a back-end moderation tool. Both are supported by AI to improve debate quality and respectfulness:
- AI offers live feedback to participants so contributions are respectful and well-elaborated
- AI automatically moderates the debate so disrespectful comments are not published
Furthermore, AI offers automatic summaries of the debate in the back-end, offering a very quick manner of analysing the inputs.
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Experience Rhetoric for yourself
Try it out! What’s your opinion? Do you think it’s important that citizens can participate to online debate about the news? Share your opinion via the below Rhetoric and experience how Rhetoric works in the front-end.
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Rhetoric was developed with the support of the Flemish government
