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How Emergent founder Craig Silverman is using data to hunt down online hoaxes

on October 3, 2014

Online verification expert Craig Silverman didn’t just want to write about hoaxes that make their way into the media, he wanted to help track and disprove them — so he created a data-powered, socially-driven debunking machine called Emergent

Media outlets love to use citizen journalism, but don’t like to say where they got it or how

on June 3, 2014

Many traditional news outlets are happy to have “user-generated content” or citizen journalism for their breaking news reports, a Tow Center study finds — but most do a poor job of identifying it as UGC, and don’t provide credit to the original creator

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