ON THE ISSUE OF ASSESSING THE QUALITY OF INFORMATION ON THE INTERNET WITHOUT THE INVOLVEMENT OF CENSORSHIP
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.35546/kntu2078-4481.2025.3.2.14Keywords:
false information, false-truth, informational entropy, coherence, banality, chaotic, message, message structureAbstract
The work is devoted to the problems of developing methods for simplified analysis of the reliability of information on the Internet, as the goal of the study. It is proposed to pay attention to such an objective indicator of information as its entropy, the measure of uncertainty or randomness of the message. It is shown that information entropy itself does not determine whether the information is true or false for analysis. However, it is able to reflect the quality of information associated with structural certainty and predictability, which can be used as a sign of plausibility. Entropy is combined with the structural coherence of information. This is not an absolute criterion of truth, but changes in structural coherence can be an indicator of potential deception, especially when compared with other message structures. Examples of identifying such criteria of certainty as coherence, banality and chaotic in a text message, with the help of which it is possible not only to structure textual materials, but also to highlight such components in them that indicate the reliability of these materials.Examples of measuring Shannon’s information entropy for text messages of different configurations are given, with the help of which it is possible to co-measure information according to the above functions. An algorithm for searching for false information in text messages has been created, with the help of which it is possible to consistently identify the modes of objectivity of aggregate informational text structures within the accepted parameters – the functions of coherence, banality, chaoticness. The correlations of these functions in the truth-falsity information space are proposed. A checklist of the most correct and objective relations between the parameters specified in the message is proposed, which allows providing a formalized assessment of the confidence levels of a text message. To assess the state of formalized messages, it is proposed to use radar graphics in compatible coordinates: entropy-coherence-banality-chaotic for a certain group of words that contained in the message. The proposed methodology for assessing the levels of falsity of text messages by direct and indirect indicators, despite its formalization, allows in the first approximation to assess the reliability of specific messages, to more objectively approach information on the Internet, which has been doing without criticism or censorship for a long time, and has a steady tendency to develop falsity of entire information flows.
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