news impact summit - verification, investigation and digital ethics – hamburg, germany
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Source: Janis Krums . @jkrumsTaken on 15 Jan 2009
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Your Name – Your Company
Jochen Spangenberg, Deutsche Welle & REVEAL project
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Verification of UGC in news: status, challenges & ways ahead
Taken on 15 Jan 2009
Verification of UGC (or eyewitness media)...... is (or better: should be)
� at the core of journalistic work
As published by the Daily Mail, UK
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Source: ZDF Neo. Manipulation of a video of a Varoufakis speech of 2013. Available on YouTube here. Original video by Martin Beros available on YouTube here.
Source: Twitter stream of Storyful(@Storyful) on 24 March 2015Image of 2007 plane crash in Turkey
Verification of UGC (or eyewitness media)...... is considered as highly relevant (by journalists and media folk alike)
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Sources of all images: see http://revealproject.eu/for respective copyright holders
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The Status of Verification� Different strategies and approaches among news organisations
� Different skill sets and experience among journalists
� Variety of useful tools available (most not specifically made for
journalists)
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Source: Screenshot of TinEye
Source: Screenshot Panoramio
Source: Jochen Spangenberg(BBC Newsroom / SMUGC Hub 2013)
Source: Screenshot ofJeffrey‘s Exif Viewer
Source: Screenshot Geofeedia
The Status of Verification� Variety of approaches / initiatives / services
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Sources: Screenshots of Emergent, Storyful ,Bellingcat , reported.ly, Grasswire, witness.org, Veri.ly
The Status of Verification
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Summing up� Awareness is rising
� Distributed know-how
� Lots of useful tools
Verification at present …
� … field for specialists / experts
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� … field for specialists / experts
� … lots of manual work
� … no integrated technical solutions (yet)
In 2013,
we developed and started …
Involved
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REVEAL approach and project components� R&D
� Revealing/analysing hidden concepts in
Social Media
� Computer-assisted / algorithm-supported
verification
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verification
� From image to text to geodata (and more)
� Develop individual components
� Combine components into integrated platform
� Investigate legal aspects (re use of UGC)
� Survey and assess the market
� Liaise and cooperate with players in the field Sources: see respectivecontributions on http://revealproject.eu/
Focus of R&D work
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Algorithms as an assisitant
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Source: plenty.r. (Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0)
To find out more... And go into details...
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Thanks very much!
Kontakt
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Jochen Spangenberg, DW Innovation Berlin
Tel: +49 (0)30 4646 5604, Mob: +49 (0)172 261 2315
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