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Crowdsourced Information Gathering
Red Balloon Challenge Tag Challenge
Disinformation Age
Successful Fact-Checking:Crowdsourcing Critical Thinking
evidence not opinions avoid tools like “like” and upvotes for
answering questions
do not create bias by displaying popular content at the top
Why Crowdsourcing
• People are everywhere.• Don’t need that many people to reach the
person who knows the answer:– Tag Challenge (500 unique visitors)– Verily Pilot (2,000 unique visitors)
crowdsourcing
machinelearning
compute reputationdisplay relevant tweets/articles/images
relevant verification requests to users
submit evidenceevaluate evidenceask friends to find the answer
Next: political fact-checking
• Real-time fact-checking at veri.ly• Email contact@very.ly to suggest an event to
fact check.
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