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Articles tagged verification (35)

Joshua BentonFebruary 21, 2023

For the tech giants, security is increasingly a paid feature

Identity verification on social platforms used to be a matter of trust and safety. Now for Twitter and Facebook, it’s a new line of revenue.

Twitter relieves current and former employees of annoying DMs by relaunching its verification process

Jack Dorsey has revealed the secret way to get verified on Twitter (kinda)

John Bowers, Tim Hwang, and Jonathan ZittrainNovember 20, 2019

What should newsrooms do about deepfakes? These three things, for starters

Three researchers argue the dangers of deepfakes are overblown, but they will still require journalists to give thought to how they handle unconfirmed information.

Craig SilvermanMarch 8, 2018

Living in a sea of false signals: Are we being pushed from “trust, but verify” to “verify, then trust”?

BuzzFeed’s fake-news reporter outlines some of the dangers ahead: “We have a human problem on our hands. Our cognitive abilities are in some ways overmatched by what we have created.”

Shan WangNovember 6, 2017

The scale of misinformation online is global. First Draft is pushing for more collaboration — and more research — as an antidote

“How can we have these conversations together, instead of just being in our camps throwing insults at each other that no one is doing enough?”

Laura Hazard OwenMay 26, 2017

Cuatro simples pasos para desmentir noticias falsas

1. Atractivo emocional, 2. Apariencia de autoridad: la historia apela a una filtración o declaración que supuestamente existió, 3. Inserción efectiva en el espacio online, 4. Una red de amplificación (como Twitter o Facebook).

Ricardo BiltonNovember 30, 2016

Reuters built its own algorithmic prediction tool to help it spot (and verify) breaking news on Twitter

“The world has a lot more witnesses now, and we can’t be at everything. Our tool helps shift some of the burden of witnessing and lets journalists do much more of the high value-added work.”

Joshua BentonJuly 20, 2016

Is Twitter letting everyone be verified or just making it easier for its staff to go to parties in peace?

Instead of hassling your neighbor’s cousin’s friend who works at Twitter, you can now get rejected via form email.

Google and Storyful are launching YouTube Newswire, a feed of verified user-generated videos

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