One of our team members is from Mexico, where there is rampant misinformation online about certain diseases, medicines, and a lot of social media influencers who claim ridiculous health facts and give advice to people. We wanted to reduce the harm of misinformation through a fun threads bot.

A threads user can reply to a thread and @ our bot account to have it look through the post, and respond with sources that either support or disagree with the content.

We used cohere's api and prompt engineered the chat bot to reply to posts and provide reliable sources from WHO, HHS, nutrition.gov, nih.gov, and more.

Threads has a 500 character limit, so we had to find a workaround to provide more information. As a two person team without much front-end experience, we found it difficult to setup a nice looking frontend for the bot's replies to be hosted.