Misinformation on YouTube
Recently I read an article that I first found on Slashdot and later tracked down to the original from JAMA (The Journal of the American Medical Association) about a content analysis study of videos...
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My friend Kelly had some questions for me after my proposal last month and I’m finally getting around to thinking about some of them. One question that she had was about how a lot of low quality...
View ArticleVideolyzer Alpha Online
Version 0.0.0.1 of Videolyzer is now online! Videolyzer is a tool designed for journalists and bloggers to be able to collaboratively assess the information quality of a video, including its...
View ArticleVideolyzing Pharmaceutical Ads
There are just two countries in the world where Direct-To-Consumer (DTC) advertising is allowed for pharmaceuticals: the US and New Zealand. The ostensible motivation? To educate consumers, to raise...
View ArticleDesigning Tools for Journalism
Whether you’re designing for professionals or amateurs, for people seeking to reinvigorate institutions or to invent new ones, there are still core cultural values ensconced in journalism that can...
View ArticleMoving Towards Algorithmic Corroboration
Note: this is cross-posted on the Berkman/MIT “Truthiness in Digital Media” blog. One of the methods that truth seekers like journalists or social scientists often employ is corroboration. If we find...
View ArticleFact-Checking at Scale
Note: this is cross-posted on the CUNY Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism site. Over the last decade there’s been a substantial growth in the use of Fact-Checking to correct...
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