The Importance of Verification The Importance of Verification in Social Newsgathering Jochen Spangenberg Innovation Manager // Deutsche Welle & REVEAL Project [email protected] // https://about.me/jospang http://revealproject.eu/ & http://blogs.dw.de/innovation/ Twitter: @jospang & @RevealEU & @dw_innovation Turin, 21 September 2015
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The Importance of Verification The Importance of Verification in Social Newsgathering
Source: Janis Krums, who took the photo in Jan 2009 on his iPhone and posted on TwitPic / shared via Twitter, from where it was picked up by numerous news outlets. See https://twitter.com/#!/jkrums/status/1121915133)
Source: Global Voices Online, 26 April 2015. Image by Kunda Dixit, editor of Nepali Times.
Source: Screenshot of Twitter search by Jochen Spangenberg during attack in Sousse, Tunisia, on 26 June 2015
The pitfalls...
Source: images circulating on Twitter, claiming to show crashed Germanwings flight 9525. Taken from BBC Trending‘s Twitter account. (The actual photo – unaltered – shows a plane crash from years earlier
Source (of first manipulation): unknown. Pretending to show hurricane Sandy approaching New York
Source: Alisha Hessler — alias Jasmine Tridevil — who claimed she had had a third breast implant, to get onto a reality TV show. The image circulated widely on Social Networks –before it was debunked that the third breast was a prosthesis.
The role of (serious) journalism
Use content from Social Networks for the benefit of reporting / storytelling to
• speed up the information gathering process
• obtain information that otherwise would be unavailable
• access a multitude of (directly involved) sources
• interact with and using audience / eyewitnesses, involving them and their content in the storytelling process
• improve the user experience
• ...
Get it first –Get it first –but first, get it right!
Next: on the importance Next: on the importance of verification
The media business / journalistic profession …
Source: Flickr, Terry Johnston , CC BY 2.0
”Getting it wrong once can be more powerful than be more powerful than
getting it right 1000 times“
The importance of verification
Source: BBC News website of 27 and 29 May 2012
So what to do?So what to do?
Verification of UGC / Eyewitness Media
- Media organisations
- Journalists
Sources: Screenshots of Suncalc, Google Maps & Translate, Tweetdeck, Followerwonk, Mentionmapp, Topsy, Storyful Pro, Jeffrey’s Exif Viewer, Panoramio, Pipl
The Big W’sThe Big W’s
What?
Source : Manipulated image shared by Facebook user Gregory Michael, apparently showing shark swimming in New Jersey waters after hurricane Sandy. Taken from Witness.org blog. http://blog.witness.org/2013/01/how-informacam-improves-verification-of-mobile-media-files/
Source: Extract from a ZDF TV Programme / news report
Ethical aspects
Source: Jordi Mir, who filmed the execution of a French policeman during the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris. Video on YouTube here
Source: The Guardian, 15 August 2015. The story of FeidinSantana who filmed the shooting of Walter Scott by a policeman in North Charleston, US, on 4 April 2015