Cameron Hickey joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and what he’s learned about our online misinformation problem and the tools he’s developed to help track and combat it. The Great Battlefield podcast | June 2021
Tag: Junkipedia
ProPublica’s Electionland: The State of Election Day 2020
One post said the incident “should scare voters,” suggesting local officials can’t be trusted to count the duplicates correctly. That and other examples were collected by Junkipedia, a repository that gathers misinformation online. Electionland from Propublica | November 2020, Caroline Chen, Jack Gillum, Derek Willis, Isaac Arnsdorf, Maryam Jameel, Jessica Huseman and Ryan McCarthy
Why are you “Diss-in’ Me,” or what I know about tracking Disinformation
As part of an effort to flag misinformation, or information that is uninformed and incorrect, and disinformation, information that is intentionally put out to deceive and manipulate an audience, I tracked tweets concerning themes of voter suppression, allegations of fraud, and discrediting absentee ballots. I used boolean searches, entering terms and specific locations where misinformation…
Inside the campaign to ‘pizzagate’ Hunter Biden
The claims have also spread far and wide on Facebook, especially on public pages and groups dedicated to the QAnon-linked SaveTheChildren conspiracy theory movement, according to posts viewed by NBC News, using a list maintained by Junkipedia, an organization that monitors misinformation. NBC News | October 2020, Ben Collins and Brandy Zadrozny