Hackathon Pitches

If you have a pitch idea, please add it here!

• Implementing ‘nutrition labels’ for content

• Deradicalization toolkit: integrating into modern platforms

• Bitpress (details: in pub)

  • misinformation alerts: ~400 monthly

  • is what we’re producing getting in front of the right people? proposing: an email list that aggregates all work to be shared regularly

    • todo:

      • definition (what is misinformation?)

      • content standards

      • format

      • governance

      • the [email] list: tooling and product

• Logically: London-based tech startup building AI solutions to ID misinfo

• HINTS: the Human Interaction News Trust Synthesizer / TweetRank

• Gabe Stein: Review Maps (MIT KFG)

  • Publish documents that are machine and human-readable that include metadata about the process behind publishing an article

  • deliverable: proposal for what those documents look like

• Danny: app Tackl, connecting users to factchecking groups in India

  • detecting duplicate claims — want to meta-dedupe, work w others on it

• Alma

  • Content creators for change! connecting social media influencers of color

  • Finding ways to link that effort w/ countering propaganda + fake news

• Karim (Meedan)

  • claim detection (cf Danny)

  • take schema.org claim review metadata and store all links in database

  • filtering CommonCrawl down to metadata articles

• ? + Aviv

  • Thoughtful technology.

• Oceane (Media Lab)

  • Looking for UI folks to help build app to tag assertion with in-group indicator of trustworthiness

• Texas Justice Initiative

  • portal for data on TX criminal justice system

  • help with: verification of government data; completion and verification of dataset

Chris Marciniak?

• Posted a dataset: from Twitter’s elections integrity hub, + accounts, images, tweets, links

• Interest: exploring network metrics for how information is spreading (exploratory analysis)

Elan Pavlov - HINTS

• Categorizing fake news by people who use it

• Ranking news based on person who propagates it

• Extend to HINTS: human-interaction based trust

SJ — Underlay project

• Aligning different data sets w/ one another and w wikidata.

• Posting a high-level set of pointers to credibility indicators in use here

• Josh D. (black sweater) — CitationGraph

  • Idea: instead of …. wrap each citation in a metanode that contains extra data about it

  • in between: layer that links one claim to all of its different studies

A.N? — A meta project: I’m capturing stories from people here about their work. Come talk to me about how you came here!

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