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Articles tagged crowdsourcing (91)

Laura Hazard OwenOctober 9, 2020

Crowds of regular people are as good at moderating fake news on Facebook as professional fact-checkers

“Crowdsourcing is a promising approach for helping to identify misinformation at scale.”

Christine SchmidtDecember 10, 2019

As it settles into Vox, Recode is starting a new project to help people feel power over algorithms

“It’s about cutting through the apathy that a lot of people have about tech because it feels mysterious, letting people know there are decisions and changes you can make to your behavior that will feel empowering to people.”

Christine SchmidtAugust 19, 2019

This reporter came for ER bills (with the help of 1,000-plus patients), and now doctors are listening

Sarah Kliff has brought her healthcare billing projects from Vox to The New York Times, reporting on the submissions of thousands of readers. And now she’s written for an audience of practitioners and academics.

Joshua BentonOctober 24, 2018

WikiTribune is handing the keys more completely to its users (after laying off its journalists)

“Effectively, what we are doing is inverting completely how people normally think about communities and journalists — the community is not here to merely help the journalists. Rather the journalists will be here to work for the community.”

Kirsten HanAugust 21, 2018

Line is another chat app rife with spam, scams, and bad information. The volunteer-supported Cofacts is fact-checking them in the open

Users forward dubious messages to a chatbot; volunteer editors evaluate their credibility; the bot answers back to the user (and anyone wondering in the future).

Laura Hazard OwenJuly 11, 2018

Several people are typing: The good, the bad, and the mansplaining of WikiTribune

“‘Leadership structure’ isn’t a very Wiki phrase.”

Mevan BabakarJune 6, 2018

Can crowdsourcing scale fact-checking up, up, up? Probably not, and here’s why

“We foolishly thought that harnessing the crowd was going to require fewer human resources, when in fact it required, at least at the micro level, more.”

Laura Hazard OwenMarch 14, 2018

The WikiTribune Way: What it’s like to run a news site with a “neutral point of view”

“It is a product for people of good will — which I know sounds ridiculously naive, but so far it’s working quite well.”

Shan WangDecember 18, 2017

How much news makes it into people’s Facebook feeds? Our experiment suggests not much

Half the people in our survey saw no news at all in the first 10 posts in their feeds — even using an extremely generous definition of “news” that counted everything from celebrity gossip to sports scores to history-based explainers, across all mediums.

Shan WangDecember 4, 2017

Want to write for Publish.org? Every step of the process — from pitching to edits to payment — will be open

“Our big premise is, we’re trying to be an open news desk for the internet. At the end of the day, we’re just trying to fuel a healthier, more open ecosystem of journalism.”

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