Campaign: Countering misinformation on social media
Geekulcha (November 2017)
Main question
How do we address misinformation amongst students on social media?
Insights/ sub-questions
Help people identify source of information
Short time to address misinformation campaign
Who are the influencers?
How do we counter bots at technical level
Need to simplify debunking
What questions do we ask to fact check?
How do we insert into dark social?
Actions
Phase 1 | Phase 2 | |
Educate | Train the trainer (on provenance/ fact checking) | Fact-check practice infographics | Curated/ collated fact-check content |
Pre-empt | Insert into dark social via SRC/LRC/ influencers | Establish social media platform to insert |
Map history and anticipate future misinformation | Map topics – incl. political priorities | Identify influencers (+ bot activity) | Hotspots |
Response | Build and train student topic response teams | Open data related to priority topics/ people |
Debunk | Mine social media, flag and notify incl. build tools + processes | Debunk infographics and simple tools |
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