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In some cases, newsrooms have specific ideas or topics they need researched. In other cases, Storyful has an idea that it looks to find a home for.
“It’s going to be a while before we really have an understanding of how we work to combat it beyond the traditional methods that we have used for a few years now.”
“The example of France shows it is possible to curtail [misinformation] campaigns. But to do so, newsrooms need to move the discussion out of the realm of the theoretical and into the practical.”
The Open Brand Safety framework is an attempt to create a master list of fake news sites so advertisers can learn to avoid them.
The NBC-owned company’s new Slack bot lets you follow more than 90,000 topics.
“It’s putting content into a useful pre-made notification format that really works for our clients.”
It’s one element of a broader expansion for the social news agency, which is also growing its product team and working on improving its core trend-detection technology.