Journalist Decision Support System (JDSS)
February 2, 2017 | Stuart Middleton
The Journalist Decision Support System is a free scalable Twitter analytics platform allowing journalists to crawl Twitter for posts and find user generated content (UGC) relevant to verification tasks. Up to 19 journalists can use JDSS simultaneously, each interactively browsing … Read More
REVEAL Results Vol. 6: Influence & Search
January 16, 2017 | Jochen Spangenberg
Back after the break: here’s Vol. 5 in our series about REVEAL results. In it, Nokia Bell Labs, France, portray what they have been working on – namely influencers and search.
How to find breaking news on Twitter
February 18, 2016 | Ruben Bouwmeester
Nowadays, news breaks fastest on Twitter. But how do you find breaking news in Twitter? Julia Bayer and Ruben Bouwmeester have put together some search terms for you.
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Verify This Week (10/2015)
April 22, 2015 | Linda Rath-Wiggins
Here, we provide interesting links from around the web that discuss issues regarding the verification processes of content from social media: What tools, services and initiatives are there? Who is doing what? What’s the state of affairs regarding eyewitness media and related issues? Here is our list for this week.
Verified on Twitter | Session at SXSW2015
March 18, 2015 | Linda Rath-Wiggins
SXSW is a yearly conference in Austin, Texas, focusing on emerging technologies and bringing together people “to spark new ideas and carve the path for the future of each ever-evolving field”. Besides a Trade Show, SXSW Interactive also offers panels, workshops and presentations evolving around the future of the internet.
Verify This Week 22/2014
July 16, 2014 | Ruben Bouwmeester
Every week, we provide interesting links from around the web that discuss issues regarding the verification processes of content from social media. Here is our list for this week.
Paper Review: Sourcing the Arab Spring
March 25, 2014 | Jochen Spangenberg
We are happy to showcase a relevant scientific paper dealing with sourcing for news reporting via Social Media. It is called ‘Sourcing the Arab Spring: A Case Study of Andy Carvin’s Sources on Twitter During the Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions’ and is written by Alfred Hermida, Seth C. Lewis and Rodrigo Zamith. The paper was published in March 2014.