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Social Media, News & the Importance of Verification
Jochen SpangenbergInnovation Manager, DW Innovation Projects Projects and Development / Deutsche Welle
Project Manager EC co-funded projects REVEAL & [email protected]
Twitter: @jospang
2nd European Media & Literacy Forum, Riga, Latvia, 27-29 June 2016
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The world is changing
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Source : eMarketer
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Source : NBC News, 14 March 2013Top: from shortly after Pope John Paul II's death
Bottom: the crowd watching as the new Pope Francis speaks to St. Peter's Square for the first time after he was elected
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Source: Mark Smiciklas (CC BY-NC 2.0)
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Values & benefits of UGC (focus: news context)
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Source: Janis Krums, Jan 2009
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Source: Jordi Mir (Paris, March 2015)
Source: Global Voices Online, 26 April 2015. Image by Kunda Dixit, editor of Nepali Times.
Source: Screenshot of Twitter search by Jochen Spangenberg during attack in Sousse, Tunisia,
on 26 June 2015
Source: Daniel Psenny, courtesy of LeMonde (Paris, 13 Nov 2015)
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Pitfalls
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Source: manipulated photo, as posted on Instagram account of nois7, Image source here.
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Source: images circulating on Twitter, claiming to show crashed Germanwings flight 9525.
Taken from BBC Trending‘s Twitter account.
Source: The Guardian, 23 March 2016
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Source: “Syrian Hero Boy” 2014
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Sources: BBC Trending and The Daily Telegraph
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Consequences & the situation at presentthe situation at present
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• Verification of UGC = important
• Currently carried out primarily by:
� Journalists
� Human rights organisations
� Activists
� Law enforcement agencies
� Groups with particular � Groups with particular (vested, particular) interests and aims
• Needed
� Bring the issues more into the public domain / raise awareness
� Provide more easy to use tools
� Train journalists (still needed!)
� Teach / train “ordinary citizens” (& multipliers) verification skills
Source: BBC Newsroom / Jochen Spangenberg (Dec 2011)
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What to do?Small selection of ideas and Small selection of ideas and
activities / initiatives
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Source: kimba Howard (CC BY 2.0)
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Sources: Screenshots of Suncalc, Google Maps & Translate, Tweetdeck, Followerwonk, Mentionmapp, Topsy, Storyful Pro, Jeffrey’s Exif Viewer, Panoramio, Pipl, Amnesty’s YouTube Data Viewer
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The project REVEAL
• Develop processes, algorithms and software components that aid in verification / debunking of content shared via Social Networks
• Investigate the market (tools, approaches, legal issues etc)
• EC co-funded, 11/2013 – 10/2016
Source of screenshots (and more information): REVEAL http://revealproject.eu/
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The project InVID
• Focus on video verification
• Running 01/2016-12/2018
• Co-funded by the EC
Source:Manipulated image of an apparent Iranian missile test
Source: Exo Makina / InVID consortium
More information on http://www.invid-project.eu/
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• Development of a collaboration platform for UGC verification
• Google DNI funding
• 06/2016-08/2017
The funded project Verify.Media
Source: DW press release of June 2016
Source: Screenshots of DW scribbles / concepts / ideas
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Sources: Screenshots of various reports
Source: Screenshot of FirstDraftNews website
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Source: https://www.bellingcat.com/tag/mh17/
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Source: https://mh17.correctiv.org/english/
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VITAL: not to forget in this context!!not to forget in this context!!
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Ethical aspects
Source: Jordi Mir, Paris 2015 Source: The Guardian, 15 August 2015. The story of Feidin Santana who filmed the shooting of Walter Scott by a policeman
in North Charleston, US, on 4 April 2015
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Trauma / PTSD
Source: Reuters Source: Live Leaks
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Thank you!
Contact
Jochen SpangenbergInnovation Manager, DW Innovation Projects Projects and Development / Deutsche Welle
EC co-funded projects REVEAL & [email protected]
Twitter: @jospang