check's profile picture. Check, by @meedan, allows organizations to deploy tiplines for their communities. This account is archived. Visit the link to learn more about us.

Check

@check

Check, by @meedan, allows organizations to deploy tiplines for their communities. This account is archived. Visit the link to learn more about us.

thinking that it might be the right time to dust off the @check account


Check reposted

It's amazing to witness the on going growth of @meedan 's #FactCheck platform @check. iVerify will be very beneficial to make the detection of content much more easy.

Our iVerify tool is the first #DigitalPublicGood to tackle misinformation. iVerify combines AI tech and human fact checking to identify false narratives and combat the spread of false narratives during election periods. Learn more: bit.ly/3De6WnA #DPGs4DPI #UNGA

UNDP's tweet image. Our iVerify tool is the first #DigitalPublicGood to tackle misinformation.   

iVerify combines AI tech and human fact checking to identify false narratives and combat the spread of false narratives during election periods. 

Learn more: bit.ly/3De6WnA  

#DPGs4DPI #UNGA


Check reposted

We reflect on our experience working on the @check project w/ @meedan & on the challenges our media friends & partners face in non-Western contexts, with insights from @poderosaschicas in Lat Am, @KhabarLahariya in India, @ThePublicSource in Lebanon & @Almanassa_AR in Egypt

New journal article in First Monday today, from myself and @dimalb. Understanding factors and barriers to alternative media development in emerging economies: Learning from the Check Global project firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/…



Join us at @Check to build software for some of the world’s leading fact-checking and media organizations! Meedan seeks a senior frontend developer for our 10-member global software team: meedan.com/jobs/software-… #mozillalifeboat #devjobs


Are you a programmer interested in verification or fact-checking? Do you want to contribute to an open source project that has supported some of the largest collaborative reporting initiatives on the internet? Join @check for #Hacktoberfest! meedan.com/blog/hacktober…

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Hacktoberfest 2020 & Meedan

Hacktoberfest 2020 & Meedan


"It is important to know that what we choose to fact-check on WhatsApp will have the greatest impact. First, we see on @Check how many times a piece of content has been submitted. Then we look for it outside of WhatsApp." @kateomega: poynter.org/fact-checking/…


Shalini Joshi shares insights from @Meedan's pilot project with AFP (India and Brazil), Africa Check, BOOM and India Today. We pushed over 200,000 lines of code to Check to support their fact-checking work on the WhatsApp Business API. meedan.com/blog/insights-… #GlobalFact7

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Insights from 5,700 fact-checks on the WhatsApp Business API

Insights from 5,700 fact-checks on the WhatsApp Business API


Check reposted

We have wonderful people as panelists @AkinpeluYusuph from @dubawaNG, @allwellokpi from @AfricaCheck_NG, and @SegunAndrews from @AFPFactCheck. It promises to be exciting and progressive. Let's discuss misinformation in Nigeria and Africa Supported by @meedan and @check


Check reposted

You have to take the responsibility of ascertaining the accuracy of any information, either good or bad, before reacting to it. Beware of fake news and don't spread it. #TakeResponsibility #VerifyNigeria #factchecking

PeoplesCheck1's tweet image. You have to take the responsibility of ascertaining the accuracy of any information, either good or bad, before reacting to it. Beware of fake news and don't spread it.

#TakeResponsibility #VerifyNigeria #factchecking

Interested in a demo? Get in touch at [email protected].

Check Bot: a fully customizable bot designed for fact-checkers and journalists to run fact-checking tiplines on Whatsapp, Facebook messenger, Twitter DM, and more.



Know more about Check and get in touch with our team to support your verification and fact-checking work meedan.com/check

We are happy to see our open source collobrative verification software @check listed at @fathmco toolbox to support verification and newsgathering workflows of distributed newsroom fathm.distributednewsroom.com/technology-and…



Check reposted

We've also included some of the top social newsgathering and verification tools that facilitate team-wide collaboration, including @NewsWhip @crowdtangle @check @KrzanaLtd @trulymedia >> fathm.distributednewsroom.com/technology-and…

Tom_El_Rumi's tweet image. We've also included some of the top social newsgathering and verification tools that facilitate team-wide collaboration, including @NewsWhip @crowdtangle @check @KrzanaLtd @trulymedia >>
fathm.distributednewsroom.com/technology-and…

4. Use disclaimer text to ensure transparency with users about the changing nature of information in a pandemic.


During 2019, as we grew our Check Global program with the generous support of the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida), Meedan expanded its partnership footprint to Africa, Asia Pacific and Latin America.


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