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Crowdsourcing Fact-Checking
https://veri.ly/about
Is this Rome?
Crowdsourced Information Gathering
Red Balloon Challenge Tag Challenge
Successful Evidence Gathering?
Disinformation Age
veri.ly crowdsourced fact-checking
Successful Fact-Checking:
Crowdsourcing Critical Thinking
evidence not opinions avoid tools like ¡°like¡±
and upvotes for
answering questions
do not create bias by
displaying popular
content at the top
Pilot Experiment July 2014
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Deployment in Nepal
Crowdsourcing Questions
Why Crowdsourcing
? People are everywhere.
? Don¡¯t need that many people to reach the
person who knows the answer:
¨C Tag Challenge (500 unique visitors)
¨C Verily Pilot (2,000 unique visitors)
crowd
sourcing
machine
learning
compute reputation
display relevant tweets/articles/images
relevant verification requests to users
submit evidence
evaluate evidence
ask friends to find the answer
Next: political fact-checking
? Real-time fact-checking at veri.ly
? Email contact@very.ly to suggest an event to
fact check.
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