In this post, we explain the basics behind our method for calculating video similarity based on audio information.
A common difficulty faced by journalists and fact-checkers – beyond analytics and forensics – is assessing as early as possible the newsworthiness of a potential story to understand the gains of a further investigation. In this blogpost, we use an example of 5G conspiracy content from the UK to show how the Twitter SNA module […]
WeVerify testing has ran from December 2019 and will continue until September 2021. In total, nine test cycles have been scheduled in order to evaluate the tools and single components from a user, i.e. fact checker’s, perspective.
Screenshot of a new Twitter social network analysis module within our verification plugin
Our verification plug-in is being used for debunking disinformation about the coronavirus in numerous countries (USA, France, India, Portugal, Netherlands, Colombia, Ecuador, Mauritius), and languages (e.g. English, French, Spanish, Dutch, and Portuguese) by many fact-checkers and news organizations (e.g. AFP, France24, The Quint, Boom, India Today, L’Express, Canal 1, Volkskrant). It should be noted that […]
In the run-up to the UK 2019 general election, the WeVerify partner University of Sheffield carried out a longitudinal quantitative analysis of abusive tweets targeting Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson. This showed a 200-fold increase in 2019, from across the political spectrum in which doctored tweets, anti-Semitic tropes and accusations of financial duplicity have been […]
In late 2018, in the context of Deutsche Welle’s various verification projects and activities, I talked to Dhruti Shah of the BBC’s User Generated Content and Social Media Hub. Originally intended for internal purposes only and to canvass views of experts in the industry, I decided to make the interview public here and now – […]
In late February 2019, I (Jochen Spangenberg) conducted an exclusive interview for WeVerify with Sam Dubberley, an acknowledged expert in the verification sphere. Sam works as a manager for Amnesty International’s so-called Digital Verification Corps, which is part of Amnesty’s Crisis Response Team / Evidence Lab. He is furthermore a research consultant at the Human […]
The recent so-called “deep fake” circulating on Instagram involving Mark Zuckerberg allegedly telling the ‘truth’ about privacy on Facebook was another episode of the fearful future of disinformation. Potentially, any celebrity can be caught in an awkward situation or say any kind of unexpected statements, through artificial intelligence (read machine learning) manipulated media content. So […]