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Imagine you're living through a crisis in your part of the world. It could be a natural disaster, a contentious election, or even a coup d'etat.  Rumors are swirling on social media, on television, and even your family group chat. Events are unfolding rapidly, and you don't know what to believe.  What if, just by sending a text message, you could reach a trusted source for an instant fact check?  Our guest today, Ed Bice, heads an organization called Meedan, that provides a consumer-facing fact checking service in countries around the world. Meedan's software integrates with messaging apps, to connect people quickly with trusted news organizations. Instead of asking Chat GPT or Google, you can ask a customized chatbot, and get an answer based on reporting from your local TV station or newspaper.  Meedan's work has been especially impactful during contentious elections in countries like Mexico, India, and Brazil.  Unfortunately, Meta's announcement that it will stop fact checking on its platforms this year – including WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook – threatens the funding and support essential for tools like Meedan to combat misinformation.Ed Bice has been working for two decades to make the Internet a more collaborative and democratic space. And he's still optimistic.    ABOUT THE SHOW The Making Peace Visible podcast is hosted by Jamil Simon and produced by Andrea Muraskin. Our associate producer is Faith McClure. Learn more at makingpeacevisible.orgSupport our work Connect on social:Instagram @makingpeacevisibleLinkedIn @makingpeacevisibleX (formerly Twitter) @makingpeaceviz We want to learn more about our listeners. Take this 3-minute survey to help us improve the show!

Alshika Jennela, Program Manager Mis/Disinformation at Indian American Impact, and Deepak Puri, CEO of The Democracy Labs, TheDemLabs.org, talk about how WhatsApp is used by people all around the globe. It is seen as a trusted source of news from friends and family while, at the same time, a source of disinformation. With deep insights into the Indian American and South Asian American communities, they highlight how activists are working to present facts and correct misinformation and disinformation spreading on social media.  Deepak and Alshika discuss: Lessons learned from the spread of misinformation during COVID Who is using WhatsApp  How disinformation related to politics is spreading on social media How to fight mis/disinformation within minority communities @IA_Impact @TheDemLabs #WhatsApp #Disinformation #Misinformation #IndianAmerican #SouthAsianAmerican  IAImpact.org  Desifacts.org  Meedan.org TheDemLabs.org

How to stamp out—or at least dilute—the power and danger posed by disinformation? We'll go over the numerous ideas on the subject. Featuring Clare Melford, Chief Executive Officer of Global Disinformation Index, Megan Marelli, Editorial Director for Meedan, and Meredith Wilson, Chief Executive Officer, Emergent Risk International Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

At one point in the post-truth era, fact-checking seemed like the way back to a shared reality. Just get evidence-based truth out there, and disinformation would slink away in disgrace. Snopes, Kinzen, Meedan and others are built on that belief. Unfortunately, it didn't work out that way. Falsehood still seems to have the drop on truth. So, today's guest joins me to help us understand why. Angie Drobnic Holan is a journalist and long-time editor-in-chief of Poltifact, one of the world's premier fact-checkers. She was also recently named a Nieman Fellow at Harvard to examine the role of journalism in democracy. Angie and I will cover the role of fact-checking in social media today; the case for and limits of objective truth; and the practice of fact-checking when evidence is evolving, as in the case of the origins of Covid-19.

The Supreme Court of the United States has revoked the legal right to have an abortion, and certain sectors of the US media have had an important role to play in pushing things in this direction.rnrnContributors:rnJenna Sherman - Science writer, MeedanrnCaitlin Cruz - Senior reporter, JezebelrnTerry Heaton - Author, The Gospel of Self: How Pat Robertson Stole the Soul of the GOPrnSamuel Perry - Sociologist, University of OklahomarnrnOn our radar:rnFormer Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte has taken a swipe at his journalistic nemesis - Maria Ressa - just as he leaves office. Flo Philips on the shutdown of news outlet Rappler.rnrnThe resounding silence over Balochistan:rnPakistan's Balochistan province is underreported and misrepresented in the media. Those who dare to report on the issues of the region pay a heavy price.rnrnContributors:rnMohammed Hanif - Author, The Baloch Who Is Not Missing and Others Who ArernMahvish Ahmad - Co-founder, TanqeedrnKiyya Baloch - Baloch journalist in exile

In our last episode, we talked about cognitive technologies, or behaviors that shape our capacities to think, communicate, and imagine. Cultural artifacts like language, visual drawings, math, and art are cognitive technologies because they allow us to link our minds together and invent new ideas that go beyond what any one mind could do on its own. They allow us to stabilize and share ideas across space and time to build increasingly complex tools, systems, and societies.Today, humans are at a point in society where we're creating things that we don't understand. A few decades ago, it was said we'd reached a point where no one individual could understand things we were starting to build, such as how computers work. Instead, it took a group of specialized experts to jointly piece together new technologies we were inventing. In the past few years, with increasingly complex artificial intelligence technologies, we've crossed another threshold: we've built things that nobody can fully understand - not even groups of experts. Unlocking this Pandora's box has created a positive feedback loop: In order to coordinate the collective interactions of new, complicated technologies, we must develop even more complicated systems. Ironically, many of the technologies are intended to simplify our lives - to allow us to more easily connect with one another, manage our finances, and order our groceries. But the speed at which new technologies are evolving in fact further complicates our lives. This is one of the major paradoxes of the 21st Century. (“Hashtag disruption!”)Today we're talking with Tim Hwang about one of the most pervasive examples of these technologies. It's the one that underlies the entire business model of the internet. And it's having a profound effect on human behavior at a global scale. We're talking about programmatic advertising. Tim is a writer, researcher, and currently the general counsel at Substack. He's the author of The Subprime Attention Crisis, a book about the online advertising bubble that we'll be discussing today. He's also a research fellow at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology and a board member of Meedan, a non-profit that builds software and programmatic initiatives to strengthen journalism, digital literacy, and accessibility of information. Previously he's served as the global public policy lead for artificial intelligence and machine learning at Google, as well as the director of the Harvard-MIT Ethics and Governance of AI Initiative, a $27M philanthropic fund and research effort working to advance the development of machine learning in the public interest.The ideas we'll cover are a bit jargonized and technical, but their implications are extremely broad and important. Tim believes we're in danger of another economic collapse, perhaps even orders of magnitude larger than the 2008 mortgage crisis. Given the technical nature of the topic, we're going to first review the main arguments in Tim's book and then ask him to connect his ideas to the themes we think about at Oscillations. We encourage our listeners to read The Subprime Attention Crisis, since there's a lot of information that we won't be able to cover in our conversation today. "Art is the signature of civilizations." -Beverly SillsJoin the movement from the very beginning. If you believe that #thefutureiscreative, support us with a like, a follow, and a share.subscribe: YouTube  / Instagram /

Na Varanda ITS #104, convidamos pesquisadores para debater sobre as dificuldades e limitações de combater a desinformação nas plataformas, as ferramentas e metodologias utilizadas e como é feita a construção de conhecimento. Além disso, queremos apresentar e estimular a produção de conhecimento sobre o Pegabot, nossa plataforma de identificação de perfis automatizados. Participam do evento João Guilherme Bastos dos Santos, coordenador do Laboratório de Dados do INCT.DD, Caio Almeida, diretor de Engenharia de Software do Meedan, Daniel Schwabe, pesquisador e professor titular aposentado do Departamento de Informática da PUC-Rio, e Thayane Guimarães, pesquisadora sênior da área de Democracia e Tecnologia do ITS. A moderação fica por conta de Diego Cerqueira, pesquisador da área de Democracia e Tecnologia do ITS.

My guests this week are Nat Gyenes and Megan Marrelli with Meedan, a non-profit building digital tools for journalists, helping them fact check information quickly and turn it around for the public.When the Covid-19 pandemic hit last year, Nat – with her training in public health – and Megan – with her training in journalism – put together a digital tool called Health Desk. The goal: to make it easier for journalists to understand complex health-related topics and share information accurately.

Online Anonymity is to be cherished according to Ed Bice, CEO of Meedan, a global technology not-for-profit that builds software and programmatic initiatives to strengthen journalism, digital literacy, and accessibility of information online and off.

As there is still so much we do not know about the coronavirus, Meedan's Digital Health Lab answers journalists' burning questions on 'mid-information' - a science that is still largely unknown

Nossa ciranda da semana é sobre dar à luz em meio a uma pandemia de Covid-19

Você aí já pensou em adotar uma criança? Essa semana vamos cirandar sobre a cultura da infância e da adolescência e o universo da adoção no Brasil. Convidamos Maria Vânia Magalhães uma paraibana de 50 anos de idade, que há anos mora em Belo Horizonte e dirige de forma voluntária a Casa Colmeia. Única casa de acolhimento de mães adolescentes com seus bebês e crianças no estado de Minas Gerais. No Brasil atualmente tem 4,9 mil crianças e adolescentes para a adoção. E um total de 42 famílias aptas e disponíveis para adotar. Mas será por que existem tantas famílias na fila e,  mesmo assim, muitas crianças não são adotadas rapidamente? Vamos também debater os 30 anos completados em julho do Estatuto da Criança e Adolescente - o ECA, marco nos direitos de nossos pequenos/a cidadãos. Vem cirandar com a gente para discutirmos ainda as dificuldades do cenário de adoção durante a pandemia da Covid-19? E se quiser ajudar a Colmeia, casa de acolhimento que Maria Vânia coordena, pode fazer doações financeiras ou de alimentos. O telefone é 31-3372 26 93 ou pelo e-mail: colmeiaeduc@yahoo.com.br  e site www.colmeialar.org.br Produção e Apresentação: Joana Suarez e Raquel Baster. Edição de som: Júnior Niquini. Vozes das crianças neste episódio: Helena Macedo (cantando Ciranda Cirandinha) e Maria Eduarda (recitando em formato de poesia a música Trenzinho Caipira de Heitor Villa-Lobos)  *Esse episódio teve o apoio da Microbolsa Check Global, do Meedan, e da ONG Artigo 19, através da campanha #compartilheinformação #compartilhesaúde Links relacionados http://www.colmeialar.org.br/quemsomos.html https://agenciabrasil.ebc.com.br/justica/noticia/2020-02/agencia-brasil-explica-como-e-o-processo-de-adocao-no-brasil https://arte.estadao.com.br/brasil/adocao/criancas/ https://www.cnj.jus.br/cnanovo/pages/publico/index.jsf https://www.facebook.com/cejapernambuco/ https://www.cnj.jus.br/agendas/congresso-digital-dos-30-anos-do-estatuto-da-crianca-e-do-adolescente/ https://agenciabrasil.ebc.com.br/direitos-humanos/noticia/2020-07/estatuto-da-crianca-e-do-adolescente-completa-30-anos https://www.otempo.com.br/polopoly_fs/1.1277540.1460646996!/index.html

Tu já andasse de bike? A nossa cirandeira de hoje vai nos conduzir de cima da bicicleta, fazendo entregas pelas ruas de Recife. Prepara pra ouvir buzinas e muito vento. Mas o importante é a escuta atenta de Niedja Oliveira, entregadora de aplicativos, de comidas e bebidas, em Pernambuco. Pedalando, ofegante, ela nos contou como tem sido trabalhar com isso na pandemia. Os riscos de exposição ao coronavírus, a falta de direitos trabalhistas e de respeito por parte de empresas e clientes são alguns dos problemas no caminho das entregas, que todos nós precisamos enxergar. Então, pra quem pede em apps do tipo ou não, é quase obrigação entrar nessa roda, ou melhor, na garupa de Niedja. Vem entender como essas pedidos têm chegado nas casas dos brasileiros todos os dias, às custas de muitos quilômetros suados da classe pobre do nosso país. E também conhecer essa nordestina arretada, numa experiência sonora inédita por aqui. Esse pedal em ritmo de ciranda tá em todos os tocadores de podcasts e no link da bio. Depois, já sabe, se gostou, chama mais gente pra bicicletar/cirandar... curte, compartilha e comenta ! Produção e Apresentação: Joana Suarez e Raquel Baster. Edição de som: Júnior Niquini. *Esse episódio teve o apoio da Microbolsa Check Global, do Meedan, e da ONG Artigo 19, através da campanha #compartilheinformação #compartilhesaúde Links relacionados: https://digilabour.com.br/2020/06/28/quem-esta-pesquisando-o-trabalho-de-entregadores-no-brasil/ https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KCFsMU7Z7_sfB3w_5sJSWlG2aztjl7J8/view https://www.bbc.com/portuguese/brasil-53124543 https://cnttl.org.br/noticia/9957/quem-esta-pesquisando-o-trabalho-de-entregadores-no-brasil https://www.cartacapital.com.br/justica/a-uberizacao-das-relacoes-de-trabalho/ https://reporterbrasil.org.br/gig/

A pauta preta percorre o nosso podcast desde o início – onze das 15 mulheres que foram entrevistadas por nós eram negras. Mas estamos no Julho das Pretas, e antes que ele acabasse, decidimos fazer um episódio só para falar de raças, negritude, saúde da mulher negra e afroafeto. Então, aproveita que temos muito o que conversar sobre isso, e vem vibrar nessa energia potente negra com a gente.  Com toda sua voz doce e talentosa, sua luta coletiva, sua generosidade e sua negritude: Julia Nara vai conduzir a nossa ciranda direto do planalto central brasiliense.  Na pandemia, tivemos uma explosão de casos de coronavírus e mortes entre a população preta e parda, escancarando as desigualdades raciais no Brasil. E os negros continuam morrendo de violência policial e racismo no nosso país. Mas precisamos ir além das hashtags de apoios pontuais antirracistas, devemos entrar nessa roda, pegar na mão e olhar no olho das nossas companheiras negras e invocar nossa ancestralidade preta.  Falamos ainda sobre pardismo, colorismo e pigmentocracia. Ja ouviu esses termos? Simbora então cirandar com Julia e as pretinhas no beat.  Produção e Apresentação: Joana Suarez e Raquel Baster.  Edição de som: Júnior Niquini.   *Esse episódio teve o apoio da Microbolsa Check Global, do Meedan, e da ONG Artigo 19, através da campanha #compartilheinformação #compartilhesaúde  Links relacionados: https://www.instagram.com/coletivapretinhas/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpg_Rq22pI9yyBs32Y5QQvg http://www.ctc.puc-rio.br/diferencas-sociais-confirmam-que-pretos-e-pardos-morrem-mais-de-covid-19-do-que-brancos-segundo-nt11-do-nois/ http://repositorio.unicamp.br/bitstream/REPOSIP/278967/1/Romio_JackelineAparecidaFerreira_M.pdf http://observatorioseguranca.com.br/rede-divulga-dados-ineditos-reunidos-em-um-ano-de-monitoramento/ https://jornaldebrasilia.com.br/cidades/ceilandia-47-anos-historia-cultura-e-muita-festa/ https://www.geledes.org.br/o-dia-25-de-julho-e-um-marco-de-luta-para-as-negras/ https://www.geledes.org.br/as-nao-brancas-identidade-racial-e-colorismo-no-brasil/ 

Todas as medidas de prevenção à Covid-19 tem como pressuposto o isolamento social em casa. Mas para quem vive em ocupações urbanas ou favelas não é possível cumprir com esses cuidados. Ou seja, as propostas do Estado para conter a pandemia estão bem distantes das realidades brasileiras. O episódio#15 traz para a discussão o dilema das mulheres que estão nas ocupações de prédios e terrenos nas cidades: o medo de morrer por coronavírus ou ser despejadas. Quem vem cirandar e nos contar o dia a dia nas ocupações é Maura Rodrigues, do Movimento Nacional de Luta nos Bairros, Vilas e Favelas - o MLB - e moradora da ocupação Carolina Maria de Jesus, no centro de Belo Horizonte - MG. O sonho da casa própria é o motor  da luta organizada por moradia, mas outros direitos básicos que permitiriam, inclusive, a população sem-teto se prevenir do coronavírus, não são acessados. Vem conversar conosco sobre o direito à cidade que é construída a partir do trabalho das mulheres, da classe pobre e negra do Brasil, mas que continua a excluir pessoas do acesso à moradia digna. Produção e Apresentação: Joana Suarez e Raquel Baster. Edição de som: Júnior Niquini.  *Esse episódio teve o apoio da Microbolsa Check Global, do Meedan, e da ONG Artigo 19, através da campanha #compartilheinformação #compartilhesaúde Links relacionados: https://www.mlbbrasil.org/ https://www.ibge.gov.br/estatisticas/sociais/trabalho/9127-pesquisa-nacional-por-amostra-de-domicilios.html https://www.facebook.com/olga.benario.14/ https://nacoesunidas.org/onu-habitat-lanca-versao-em-portugues-da-nova-agenda-urbana/ Documentário Privatizações: a distopia do capital de Silvio Tendler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJPCKjT0XXk Série #CidadesEmDisputas: https://www.youtube.com/c/V%C3%ADdeosMLB/videos

Since the COVID pandemic began in Wuhan, China, one common feature over the last seven months has been the incessant misinformation or fake news as we call it that has spread across the world. For fact-checking organisations, their work has doubled and tripled over the last few months. They are filling a critical gap and are having to work in a more real-time manner than ever before. In this episode of The Suno India Show, Suno India editor Padma Priya will be talking to public health experts Mohit Nair and Nat Gyenes who work for Meedan which is an international technology non-profit that builds software and designs human-powered initiatives for newsrooms. See sunoindia.in/privacy-policy for privacy information.

Qual é a primeira imagem de uma mulher com deficiência que lhe vem à cabeça? Não sei o que surgiu no seu pensamento, mas espero que não seja uma pessoa fragilizada. Te convidamos essa semana a cirandar com Alessandra Martins (Lelê), mulher preta, PCD (pessoa com deficiência) e favelada. Lá do Morro Santa Marta, do Rio de Janeiro. A sociedade está desacostumada com as diferenças. Imagine então um governo que todo dia quer eliminar essa diversidade, que simplesmente desconsidera a crise sanitária que vivemos com a Covid-19. Durante a pandemia, o cotidiano de pessoas que são limitadas, não por sua deficiência, mas pela ausência do Estado e pela falta de políticas públicas adequadas, somam-se a uma maior probabilidade de contágios. Os corpos informam, e conviver com os incômodos, acolhê-los faz parte do processo anticapacitista e antirracista que Lelê vem ecoar neste episódio. Produção e Apresentação: Joana Suarez e Raquel Baster. Edição de som: Júnior Niquini. *Esse episódio teve o apoio da Microbolsa Check Global, do Meedan, e da ONG Artigo 19, através da campanha #compartilheinformação #compartilhesaúde Links relacionados: Documentário “Santa Marta - Duas semanas no morro” de Eduardo Coutinho: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fMPgm40ZpM https://azmina.com.br/colunas/dia-nacional-de-luta-das-pessoas-com-deficiencia/ https://www.bbc.com/portuguese/noticias/2016/01/160110_mulher_circo_africa_lab https://www.instagram.com/coletivohelenkeller/ Atlas da violência 2018: https://www.ipea.gov.br/portal/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33410&Itemid=432

"Pensar em sustentabilidade é pensar na família, no próximo e em você mesmo". Abrimos a ciranda dessa semana com essa frase escrita no perfil de Cidinha do Nascimento. Catadora de materiais recicláveis há 26 anos, em um lixão na região metropolitana de Cuiabá-MT, Cidinha tem sabedoria e educação ambiental para nos conduzir nessa roda sustentável, que todos nós precisamos entrar. O Brasil é o quarto maior produtor de lixo do mundo. Reciclamos menos de 10% de um total de 80 milhões de toneladas anuais de resíduos produzidos. E é impressionante como muitos ainda não entenderam que o serviço dos catadores é indispensável nas cidades. Agora, com a pandemia, o lixo aumentou, a coleta seletiva praticamente parou, ou caiu de preço (já era centavos), e esses trabalhadores estão ainda mais escondidos na montanha da invisibilidade. Então vem com a gente escutar Cidinha, prometemos que você vai terminar querendo abraçar essa mulher, lá no fundo da alma, e nunca mais deixará de separar os resíduos recicláveis. Cidinha super fará parte do nosso Roteiro Cirandeiras pelos Brasis no “pós pandemia”. Se você não sabe do que estamos falando, pode maratonar os episódios ai pra começar esse planejamento feliz com a gente ! Produção e Apresentação: Joana Suarez e Raquel Baster. Edição de som: Júnior Niquini. *Esse episódio teve o apoio da Microbolsa Check Global, do Meedan, e da ONG Artigo 19, através da campanha #compartilheinformação #compartilhesaúde *Links relacionados ao programa: http://www.mncr.org.br/sobre-o-mncr/duvidas-frequentes/quantos-catadores-existem-em-atividade-no-brasil https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Nonprofit-Organization/Asmats-Associa%C3%A7%C3%A3o-de-Catadores-de-Material-Recicl%C3%A1vel-e-Reutiliz%C3%A1vel-1622155984771372/ http://abrelpe.org.br/ https://agenciabrasil.ebc.com.br/geral/noticia/2019-11/brasil-gera-79-milhoes-de-toneladas-de-residuos-solidos-porano#:~:text=No%20Brasil%2C%20em%202018%2C%20foram,pouco%20maior%20que%20a%20gera%C3%A7%C3%A3o. https://www.mma.gov.br/cidades-sustentaveis/residuos-solidos/politica-nacional-de-residuos-solidos/linha-do-tempo.html https://www.ipea.gov.br/portal/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=29271 https://jornalistaslivres.org/a-ciranda-das-mulheres-que-percorre-o-brasil-em-podcast/ https://ancat.org.br/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Anua%CC%81rio-da-Reciclagem.pdf https://www12.senado.leg.br/noticias/materias/2020/06/24/senado-aprova-novo-marco-legal-do-saneamento-basico

Você já conheceu uma prostituta, conversou com alguma? O que você sabe sobre o trabalho sexual ? Vem ouvir nossa cirandeira do episódio #12, Santuzza Alves de Souza, profissional do sexo há 15 anos, que milita pelo reconhecimento da categoria, à frente do Coletivo Rebu, em Belo Horizonte-MG. Neste momento de pandemia, essas mulheres estão enfrentando dificuldades sem poder trabalhar. Nunca há uma política voltada para elas, já que são colocadas num lugar de estigma talvez tão prejudicial quanto o vírus atual. Dá o play aqui desligando qualquer PREconceito que tenha sobre isso. Entre nessa roda disposta a quebrar tabus e barreiras. E não é só nos pensamentos do cérebro não, mas nos corporais também, porque falamos de orgasmo feminino, auto prazer e conhecimento que liberta. Na nossa ciranda, não há lugar para silenciamentos. E a gente adora quando vocês conversam com a gente no instagram @cirandeiraspodcast, e sobre esse assunto, vai ser ainda mais prazeroso… vem nos contar a tua experiência? Produção e Apresentação Joana Suarez e Raquel Baster. Edição de som: Júnior Niquini. *Esse episódio teve o apoio do Meedan e da ONG Artigo 19. Links relacionados: https://www.facebook.com/coletivarebu https://www.facebook.com/CUTSBR/ https://www.obeltrano.com.br/portfolio/guaicurus-de-dentro-pra-fora/ https://www.vakinha.com.br/vaquinha/trabalhadoras-sexuais-pedem-socorro?fbclid=IwAR0x8_ix8dQFLY4XjaLetP6LpPCnuK-_VeyUbD8s_iNKq-kxAF3xcGfY-2s Clipe Coisa mais bonita Flaira Ferro: https://youtu.be/4W8Jo-4IqcQ

Vocês devem lembrar da personagem Tieta de Jorge Amado. Nossa cirandeira vem lá do Pará, mas hoje mora na terra de sua grande inspiração. Vamos cirandar pelas bandas da Bahia, de onde vem Tieta, em Salvador especificamente, onde reside Symmy Larrat. Uma travesti de 42 anos que há anos luta para que as Tietas - como ela chama as mulheres travestis - existentes no Brasil possam encontrar o seu lugar ao sol da liberdade e da democracia. Symmy é presidenTRA da Associação Brasileira de Lésbicas, Gays, Bissexuais, Travestis, Transexuais e Intersexos (ABGLT), que existe desde a década de 90. Foi a partir da luta dessa organização e de outros movimentos sociais que tivemos alguns avanços nas políticas públicas específicas à população LGBT+, como o casamento homoafetivo, por exemplo. Mas qual a situação desta população em meio a pandemia do coronavírus, o que as travestis e transexuais  têm feito para se proteger não só da covid-19, mas também de famílias conservadoras em meio ao isolamento social e de um Estado que publiciza diariamente sua aversão e perseguição a este grupo social? Eta, eta, eta, eta vem cirandar sob os olhos de tieta? Produção e Apresentação: Joana Suarez e Raquel Baster. Edição de som: Júnior Niquini. *Esse episódio teve o apoio do Meedan e da ONG Artigo 19. Links relacionados: https://www.abglt.org https://medium.com/@brunagbenevides/a-transfobia-por-tr%C3%A1s-do-uso-do-faceapp-b1e008e2efc https://brasil.elpais.com/brasil/2019/03/19/internacional/1553026147_774690.html Relatório Homofobia Patrocinada pelo Estado 2019: https://ilga.org/ilga-launches-state-sponsored-homophobia-2019 https://agenciabrasil.ebc.com.br/direitos-humanos/noticia/2020-01/brasil-registra-124-assassinatos-de-pessoas-transgenero-em-2019 https://agenciabrasil.ebc.com.br/geral/noticia/2019-06/supremo-decide-criminalizar-homofobia-como-forma-de-racismo

“Queremos que a gambiarra se torne a tecnologia da vez porque ela vem da periferia”. A gente também e tu? Quem disse isso foi a Fernanda Monteiro, mulher trans negras, de 34 anos, lá de São Paulo e que é a nossa cirandeira convidada desta semana para discutirmos Pandemia na Internet. Em tempos de coronavírus e necessidade de estarmos conectados, tu já parou para pensar que a internet é uma via de mão dupla? Ela amplia nossa comunicação, mas pode ser utilizada também contra nós. A febre dos últimos dias na utilização do aplicativo Faceapp, aquele que faz sua projeção de idade ou constrói um você “feminino” ou “masculino” é um exemplo disso. Essa ferramenta foi questionada sobre abusos no uso e compartilhamento dos dados de seus usuários. E abriu um debate  também sobre discriminação racial e de gênero. A Fernanda é formada em Tecnologia da Informação, faz parte da Rede Transfeminista de Segurança Digital e da Rede de Ciberativistas Negras. Há anos atua na área de Segurança Digital para defensoras dos Direitos Humanos. Busca construir infraestruturas feministas na internet para que uma diversidade de mulheres possa acessar a tecnologia e que as distâncias sociais online sejam cada vez menores. Produção e Apresentação Joana Suarez e Raquel Baster. Edição de som: Júnior Niquini. *Esse episódio teve o apoio do Meedan e da ONG Artigo 19. Links relacionados: https://agenciabrasil.ebc.com.br/geral/noticia/2020-05/brasil-tem-134-milhoes-de-usuarios-de-internet-aponta-pesquisa https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/mercado/2020/05/cerca-de-70-milhoes-no-brasil-tem-acesso-precario-a-internet-na-pandemia.shtml https://intervozes.org.br/intervozes-solicita-a-anatel-a-proibicao-da-suspensao-de-conexoes-moveis-e-banda-larga-por-90-dias/ https://www.brasildefato.com.br/2020/04/03/artigo-pandemia-expoe-desinformacao-e-violacao-de-direitos-nas-periferias-do-brasil https://www.votelgbt.org/pesquisas https://www.marialab.org/ https://intervozes.org.br/publicacoes/monopolios-digitais-concentracao-e-diversidade-na-internet/ https://www.marialab.org/category/cuidados-durante-a-pandemia/ https://direitosnarede.org.br/ https://www.nexojornal.com.br/estante/trechos/2020/06/05/%E2%80%98Desinforma%C3%A7%C3%A3o%E2%80%99-a-fun%C3%A7%C3%A3o-pol%C3%ADtica-e-econ%C3%B4mica-da-mentira

Quem está dentro de casa nesses últimos meses em quarentena – o que é um privilégio –, não pode ver a quantidade de pessoas dormindo nas avenidas e praças, em barracas de lona. Como está sobrevivendo a população em situação de rua, sempre invisibilizada e estigmatizada, em meio a essa pandemia ? O auxílio emergencial do governo chega até eles de que forma? Quantos já pegaram coronavírus? A ministra da Mulher, da Família e dos Direitos Humanos, Damares Alves, declarou, recentemente, que poucos seriam contaminados pela Covid-19 porque “ninguém pega na mão deles”. Então, vamos dar as nossas mãos simbólicas para cirandar com Adriana Gomes, mulher que vive nas ruas há anos, e, muito consciente de sua luta, dá recados cruciais para uma sociedade que já os isolava antes mesmo dessa doença. A falta de redes amplas de apoio – principalmente, às mulheres, que são violadas de várias formas nas ruas – expõe falhas profundas na nossa organização social e no nosso senso de comunidade. Vem fazer essa escuta de Adriana no nosso episódio 9 sobre a pandemia esquecida nas ruas? Produção e Apresentação Joana Suarez e Raquel Baster. Edição de som: Júnior Niquini. *Esse episódio teve o apoio da Microbolsa Check Global, do Meedan.  Links relacionados: https://apublica.org/2019/09/os-dias-de-iriana-nas-ruas-de-recife-com-um-bebe-e-sem-documentos/ https://www.instagram.com/centropopfrancasp/ https://catracalivre.com.br/cidadania/sp-tem-22-moradores-de-rua-mortos-por-covid-19-diz-prefeitura/ https://www.facebook.com/ACracoResiste/ https://agenciabrasil.ebc.com.br/politica/noticia/2020-05/governo-propoe-acolhimento-de-78-mil-moradores-de-rua-pelos-municipios https://www.brasildefato.com.br/2020/01/31/movimentos-denunciam-subnotificacao-em-censo-sobre-populacao-de-rua-de-sp http://memoria.ebc.com.br/agenciabrasil/noticia/2005-12-23/brasil-tem-ate-18-milhao-de-moradores-de-rua http://www.lutapelosocialismo.org.br/1004/mendigos-a-exclusao-social-invisivel-ate-nas-pesquisas

In this episode, April Glaser is joined by guest co-host Max Read, an editor at New York magazine who covers technology and the internet. First, April and Max talk about Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes’ apostasy. Last week, Hughes wrote a long op-ed in the New York Times about why he thinks the company that made him so wealthy should be broken up. Then Katherine Lo joins the hosts to discuss how Facebook’s redesign will change how we communicate on the platform. These days she leads the content moderation team at a nonprofit called Meedan, which works with journalists on disinformation. While we talk a lot about how large social networks are governed—and misgoverned—it’s less frequent that we talk about how these platforms are designed, and how that can lead to toxic behavior. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, April Glaser is joined by guest co-host Max Read, an editor at New York magazine who covers technology and the internet. First, April and Max talk about Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes’ apostasy. Last week, Hughes wrote a long op-ed in the New York Times about why he thinks the company that made him so wealthy should be broken up. Then Katherine Lo joins the hosts to discuss how Facebook’s redesign will change how we communicate on the platform. These days she leads the content moderation team at a nonprofit called Meedan, which works with journalists on disinformation. While we talk a lot about how large social networks are governed—and misgoverned—it’s less frequent that we talk about how these platforms are designed, and how that can lead to toxic behavior. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Lisa Kiefer talks with Ed Bice, co-founder and CEO of MEEDAN, a San Francisco company building digital tools and programs that promote collaborative verification, annotation and translation for global journalism in the fight against 'fake news.'TRANSCRIPTSpeaker 1:Your listening to method to the madness or weekly public affairs show on k a l x Berkeley Celebrating Bay area innovators. I'm your host, Lisa Keifer. And today I'm interviewing Ed Bice, cofounder and CEO of media, San Francisco Company building digital tools that assist global journalists in the battle against fake news. You're on the front lines of what is kind of a hostile [00:00:30] environment to journalists right now. Yup. Let's talk about what technologies you're enabling to help journalists out there. Speaker 2:Journalism has been embattled for a long, long time. The shift we've seen in the journalism threat model in the last five years is we went from worrying about where revenues are coming from. We solved that issue in part by thinking about new commissioned content models and, and then suddenly we woke [00:01:00] up with a new president, this crazy lunatic in the White House. And we looked inward as journalism and journalism tech community and, and we noticed that, that we had lost trust and we'd lost our ability to assert a set of facts and have those prove more durable and influential than a set of provably not facts. And I think that we went from this deep despair over [00:01:30] not having a really good revenue business model to a more existential threat of really not having the words that were writing and the, the stories that we're publishing have influence and have meaning. Speaker 2:And this is, this is a deeper crisis than, than uh, the business model. Is this when you founded or cofounded meet and, no, we have to go way back. Median has been around since [00:02:00] very early days of social web. It started with the war in Iraq protest and I'm sure many of your listeners where we're at, the protests in the bay area, on the first day that we started dropping bombs, it was a profound global moment. It was the first time I f I felt globally networked even though I'd been on the Internet since it wasn't Internet. There was on that day, this awareness that hundreds of marches were happening around [00:02:30] the world, literally tens of millions of people were taking to the streets to say, this is not what we want. This is not how we should respond. Second Year of the post nine 11 era feels so naive now. Speaker 2:But I remember thinking as I was walking the streets of San Francisco that wow, this is what it looks like when we're able to change influence history. And, and there was really a sense that the power of this many people could do it. I went [00:03:00] with, um, my good friend Rouge Giuseppe, uh, who is, he was a human rights photographer who had worked in El Salvador Rouge and I were kind of separated and there were some people blocking market street and I was standing on the sidewalk and I can still kind of imagine the, uh, bald, very tall, very large policemen, uh, reached out, grabbed me from the sidewalk, pulled me into the street and said, you can't be in the street. I'm arresting you. There are good cops. This was a bad [00:03:30] cop. I was not intending to be arrested that day, but I was arrested along with I think 1300 other people, straps around the risks and put on the bus and hauled over to pier 39. Speaker 2:And I didn't know it at the time. I would've, I would've kissed the guy if I had known how he would have changed my life at the time. I wrote an email from that experience, send it to five friends via, I think it was an AOL online email account. And, uh, [00:04:00] one of those friends who was, uh, an environmental scientist wrote back and his dad had started a tool company. He built it up and he and his wife had inherited some money and he said, ed, I want to publish your, the email that you've sent, you know, in my email, questioned what we're doing post nine 11, you know, with my experience as, as a person who had traveled in the Muslim world and who had had homes open to me and just who had just such a different understanding [00:04:30] of the world. You know, I also had the experience of studying with Paul Wells, stone in college, and, and so I had this latent to activism, right? Speaker 2:And, and I expressed that into this email, you know, just what, what, what the hell are we doing? This is crazy. We're creating generations of, of misery for, for this sculpture. And they Rakhi people. And he wrote back and said, I want to publish this as a full page run in the New York Times so that people can have a different perspective on what's going on. And I know it sounds [00:05:00] crazy, but this feels to me like this incredibly important moment in history. Within 10 minutes I wrote him back, I'll do this, but it's not my, I'm not gonna publish my words in the New York Times. I'm going to go out and find statements from people in Iraq and people in Palestine. I'm going to put those beside statements from Americans and Israelis and we're going to start this peoples opinion project. We will run this as a full page ad in the New York Times and we will go out and source this content [00:05:30] from around the world and it'll get people thinking it'll be provocative. Speaker 2:The idea was that we would do this, we would publish it, people would be so moved that they would send us money and we would do this again. And we'd start placing authentic, translated content from around the world, you know, into the New York Times. And, and, and kind of expand then to other papers and presses and, and, and is this the digital New York Times or was this the pace? This was the ink [00:06:00] and paper New York Times. And so in June of 2003 w we ran a full page ad that said in our efforts to bring democracy to the people of the world, we keep forgetting about the people of the world and then had these translated voices below that. And it was very inspiring and it didn't work. We know that in terms of the amount of money that it takes to produce and place and ad that goes out to 3 million Sunday [00:06:30] Times readers and the amount of revenue res we received back from that project, you know, it was an utter failure. Speaker 2:We had a, a short lived organization called the People's opinion project and did global opinion polling. So, so we showed some of the early trends around global opinion of us post nine 11 and post Iraq invasion. That was pretty profound. We were able to, to show that, you know, our actions had resulted [00:07:00] in this kind of loss of faith or trust in America. You mentioned that you had experienced in the Arab world. Did you live there? What was your I traveled and it wasn't the Arab world actually, although all of our work since then has been, but I traveled through Pakistan, through northern Pakistan and into western China Karakorum Highway. It's incredibly beautiful. The way we were treated there was, it was, um, it was formative. Anyone who's listening to this who hasn't gone [00:07:30] out into the world and traveled, you know, that that was my most important education from that early experience. Speaker 2:The effort in ethos early on was that the media diet, it leads to these really narrow perceptions, which in turn support ill-advised policy decisions. We wanted to broaden that and we saw the internet as a means of doing that. So everything we did in the early days had an online component. [00:08:00] You know, at the time I was, um, I was designing homes designed background, this like, this is a design problem. How do we diversify the media ecosystem? And the thing that we hit on early, early on was that language was such a fundamentally missing piece that the Internet was even in those days and this pre Facebook, but even in those days, the Internet was going to millions and millions and millions of people all around [00:08:30] the world. And it was a bunch of linguistically siloed communities. So no translation, there was no sense. Yeah. Not to speak of. Speaker 2:And any machine translation was so bad back then that fundamentally useless from that initial failed experiment, I started pounding the pavement, knocking on doors, calling people. And we've got the intention of an Israeli and Palestinian engineer at Carnegie Mellon University's language Technologies Institute [00:09:00] and that put in motion the last 12 years, which, which the patent for that, uh, translation, uh, you with, with, uh, a great technologist too who worked in Senator Leahy's office actually, is this when you founded this is, yes. So 2006. Yeah. Fast forward 2006 and there's, there's a hilarious story of which I think I've never told publicly. Shortly after the, uh, idea, Kinda jelled and the, these guys at Carnegie Mellon are like, yes, let's do this. And, and this [00:09:30] serious linguistic scientist is like, yeah, a crowdsourced human plus machine translation with a reputation model behind it. These are great ideas. We should, we should write this up and for what it's worth, we have a patent on this and still needed some money to do this right. Speaker 2:So one of my dearest friends in the world, his stepfather's uncle, really, really successful banker in New York. And I asked for a meeting, pretty nervous, but his family had, [00:10:00] had, um, escaped the Holocaust and I knew that he was pretty motivated to contribute back. So I went into his office overlooking Central Park. I had quit my job. I had done crazy things which were unpopular with my family to try to get this thing off the ground. And so I went into his office with very quite nervous and penniless. Uh, I gave him the pitch and I said, you know, language technology plus this thing called the Internet. [00:10:30] Imagine that must've appealed to him because you're getting at the truth. Yeah. Yeah. He looked at me and he pointed at this picture of his grandfather at the end of the conference table. He said, Mr Bias, my, my grandfather is smiling down on you today in 1904 or something like this. Speaker 2:A Swedish dentist walked into my grandfather's office and dressed in with a vision for language impacting global peace. And I looked at him and I said, Esperanto, [00:11:00] I was going to say that, yes, that came out of the same kind of divisiveness. And he said, precisely, Huh? My grandfather funded Esperanto and I'm going to give you some seed funding to try to put this idea in. Motion. Language is such a fundamental divider. It's not a surprise that many people have said, oh, if only we could talk a common language, you know, the world would be a better place. So that put in motion, meet Dan and MacArthur Foundation was one of those friends. The real break for [00:11:30] us came when IBM put two of their research labs at our disposal. You know, we've had partnerships with IBM and now have a good partnership with Google, Google News Lab, you know, their interest is in seeing more data. And so IBM's interest was in us using this network to bring in more human data on top of the machine processing so that they can improve their models with Google news lab. Now we're looking at how we bring in more credibility, how we can get journalists writing indicators of a, [00:12:00] an article's credibility. Speaker 1:If you're just tuning in, you're listening to method to the madness, a weekly public affairs show on k a l x Berkeley Celebrating Bay area innovators. Today I'm interviewing Ed Bice, the cofounder and CEO of me, Dan, a San Francisco Company building digital tools and programs that promote collaborative verification and rotation and translation supporting journalists around the world. [00:12:30] So are you a nonprofit? Yeah, so we [inaudible] Speaker 2:uh, three years ago we were offered a big contract to do software development with one of the large social networks and so we, we did form a for profit. Then and the nonprofit has an equity stake in that. We are a unique hybrid. 98% of our work is with the nonprofit. Now I first heard about, or read about me Dan with the Arab spring, all the protests and you all were pretty instrumental [00:13:00] in translation. Yeah. Yeah. So as soon as we started meeting in, we hired a small team in Cairo and started working on translating Arab media and, and commentary on that media and putting that alongside a US versions of that media or western English language versions of that media and translating the English language into Arabic. So we, we built kind of the Internet's first bilingual side by side news site. We had roots in Cairo. Speaker 2:[00:13:30] Some of our good friends were in the middle of the the revolution and, and still are, um, we still have deep connections with Kairos, still have employees there. We spun off a media project there two years ago that was just blocked by the state of Egypt when we were doing translation work during Arab spring. The stuff that was coming off of Twitter and Youtube and Facebook was incredibly important. We found that having no way to provide [00:14:00] notes about the sources of that content, uh, no way to really do investigations into the, the assertions made in that media. We felt like that was an area that deserved some development. So we went to, um, some of our funders and said, hey, why don't you help us next phase of media and it's going to be about not just translation on top of the social content, but also a verification and annotation, [00:14:30] annotation, building context, helping and you have specific products for that. Speaker 2:I was reading about. Yeah. So, so check is, is that product that came out of bar experiences and, and it's, and it's intended to be really simple. It's a tool that allows for collaborative verification notes. It also performs some machine processes, like makes it easy for a journalist to go out and look at the reverse image search. Uh, [00:15:00] so if, if a piece of social media contains an image, uh, we provide a quick link that says, okay, here's where that image has appeared elsewhere. So if you see that it actually came from 10 years ago in Sudan in is not a picture of a current protest in Egypt. Say you've saved yourself a a an embarrassing moment because we are kind of early to that verification space. Google news lab came to us three years ago when they were starting the first draft initiative. So we are one [00:15:30] of handful of NGOs and media orgs that came together to form the first draft group, which is been doing amazing research trainings, kind of leading a lot of the important work in news verification and fact checking space. Speaker 2:Um, and it's run by a brilliant woman named Claire Wartell who was a before that or the research director at the Tau Center, the Columbia School of journalism and, and first draft is on a, uh, [00:16:00] a steep growth curve. And, and so I think you'll continue to see a lot of really great things coming out of that organization. And I think our contributions to that have been one of the really big success stories out of me. Dan, let's talk about election land, which is an amazing moment in journalism history. The election land project was, um, spun out of that same first draft, Google news lab, me, Dan, but, uh, with the Google trends team and Propublica [00:16:30] in the lead. So propublica really, really loved prep. Yeah. They're amazing. Really great people. So 94 days before the election, I got invited to Washington DC to meet with Scott Klein and from propublica and, uh, Simon Rogers from Google trends and, uh, Clair from first draft and small set of people. Speaker 2:And they're like, well, we want to do nationwide election monitoring, you know, with a thousand journalists [00:17:00] 90 days from now. Uh, yeah. And at this point we were in, in a rewrite of, of our software. And so I said, yes, of course. So it was, it was a mad dash to pull that project together. And it's now collecting all sorts of awards. There's now a case study, uh, we've recreated this, uh, for the French election now with a project called crosscheck and a UK general election project as well with a popup newsroom component that had [00:17:30] a bunch of journalism school students together. So the model is evolving. Election monitoring has historically just been this, you know, big agencies checking boxes and observing things. And so this is really the recognition that the Internet, the social media landscape is this incredibly valuable area to do election monitoring to understand how elections are, are working in real time and try to respond to that. Speaker 2:So, so I think [00:18:00] there's something really important in this. The outcome was that you discovered there was no election fraud. Yeah, yeah. Shortly after the election, Trump was saying there was fraud. Yeah. So has he not seen this data now? He, um, you know, the, the, the irony is that w, you know, 94 days before the election, Trump had not talked about vote rigging. So we're, we're starting this project and we were like, Yep, you know, we're going to be in an amazing [00:18:30] position to look at voter day issues. And then, I don't know, 30 days, 40 days later, Trump says the vote's going to be rigged. And we're like, oh my God, he's just, he's doing our advertising, you know, marketing this project and, and, and making it incredibly important. But there were hundreds of articles that were filed from the findings on election day. Speaker 2:So the, the model that we had was, uh, work with a bunch of journalism school students and 300 local [00:19:00] media partners and source these stories in real time. I mean, it was a, it was a remarkable and remarkably complex operation, but we were signaling out to reporters during election day and the result of those signals was, I want to say between two and 300 stories may be off on that in terms of the comprehensive view from, there wasn't voter fraud. Propublica did a series of stories on that. Okay. So that was major, that was a pivotal moment, [00:19:30] but very costly, right? Yeah. Costly. Costly in terms of we had a hundred people in the CUNY, a journalism school newsroom on election nights. A certainly there's costs getting all those people together, but when you think about the person hours, we had a thousand journalists using the software. We had about 700 in check and about a thousand on the slack. Speaker 2:We use slack as a communication back end for the project. When you think about the person hours [00:20:00] that went into that, that came out of that project was pretty efficient investment. So this will continue. I would be shocked if we didn't do midterms and, and sh I believe election land is a models going forward and I think that first draft and pop up newsroom as global election monitoring efforts and, and the research that comes out of that is gonna. I think we've invented a whole new mode of election monitoring and, and I think it's gonna [00:20:30] be a really powerful and important tool, especially as we see the kind of weaponization, the misinformation campaigns that are now being waged around elections. The Bot armies that are being deployed to just, you know, misinformation. All of this needs to be addressed in, in efforts that identify and call out misinformation, disinformation campaigns in, [00:21:00] in the runup and, and, uh, into election day. Speaker 2:David Remnick New Yorker, he talks about this as the golden age of ignorance. Yeah. We're in, how do we, uh, fight the media moguls who take over, for instance, the guy who owns national enquirers now trying to take Time magazine. And all of those assorted of magazines and that's editorial content that how, how do we get around that kind of gaming? The answer used to be the Internet, you know the Internet, it'll save us [00:21:30] from, from this. Have you guys all talked about that you, you were just at a conference in Italy International Journalism Festival at a certain level, the same consumer appetite that had people clicking onto bula and Outbrain's ads as a means of supporting serious journalism is now supplanting serious journalism with that sort of reporting in there. There are some good signs in subscription models and [00:22:00] what's happening for the post and the Times. Speaker 2:There's a lot of people who are saying, Oh okay, we do need to pay for this. And maybe that's one positive trend out of all of this. But the idea that people who are just dead set to promote agenda driven media are, are going to control influential. You know, Fox News feels, feels very innocent in comparison, [00:22:30] you know, with these efforts. So the idea that you know, that Breitbart would become as influential as foxes is, is David Pecker with the time empire? If that happens, it's terrifying. So that's continuing this silo, like people who believe a certain way, they know which outlets to go to and you and I may go to Propublican read what we know to be the truth. Are we never going to have the mediation between these groups through journalism that [00:23:00] that's the hope. But I mean really the, the deepest hope for journalism is that, um, the truth, uh, has more weight than untruth, you know, if that is thrown out then, then the sorting mechanism, just his, because it all is in, is all about the truth. Speaker 2:It's, it's there. It's supposed to help us. Yeah. Yeah. I, I think that we're in some, some really, really dark days and, and that, [00:23:30] these technologies that we thought were, you know, so liberating and so empowering and the wisdom of the crowd that would, that would surface and, and, and the sort of Wikipedia model re across human knowledge that would have affordances for editing and annotating and revising every object knowledge until it came to the point that was like, was better [00:24:00] or more true as we wade into conversations around the truth. One thing is that working in a global context, you're really humble about this truth. You recognize that there are a thousand truths that describe an important piece of every event. It's not just to descend into total relativism, but to acknowledge that context is, is always dependent on a cultural framing, [00:24:30] the reader framing the understanding the source better. Speaker 2:So I feel like I want to offer this disclaimer that as, as I'm saying, you know, we need the truth to mean more that I'm not saying there's not just there, there is one truth in the end and you don't have no, nor should there be one arbiter of the truth. And, and right now the one thing is very concerning for journalism is, is the, is the fact that Google and and Facebook are distributing and Twitter distributing, you know, these, these [00:25:00] are distribution pipelines that are so dominant right now, surely in terms of how the search algorithms and newsfeed are influencing what we're getting on a daily basis in our media diet. Those are the platforms that are very, very serious about saying we don't want to be arbiters of truth, but the algorithms that power newsfeed in power search are arbiters of meaning. And that is, is a pretty close proxy for truth. Speaker 2:You know, I think [00:25:30] we're in some really dark early days of understanding, um, how these systems, uh, were where it a failure point I think there is resolve to try to do better. And that's, that's, that's changed a lot since, uh, early November. They understand the problem and neither one of them is, is saying, oh, we need to build a truth algorithm, which is really good. And our role over the next year is going to be helping think about how signals from journalists [00:26:00] are treated by those platforms. So having a way of looking at how 30 or 40 different journalists from around the world are, are viewing a claim that might be circulating and, and then surfacing that into a Google search result as as a fact check. Would it post an alert to the yes or Google started doing this already. So Google and in some cases if you're on Google news and article contains [00:26:30] a claim that has been fact checked, they're just in this just in the last month starting to surface. Speaker 2:In fact check Facebook has dispute. We can better structure signals into those types of systems. I really respect the technology building you're doing for journalists. I think it's, it's really important. I worry about the flip side of that. There is less curiosity today because of some of the technologies that have been built. Readers become [00:27:00] lazy. They don't do the deep connecting. They put trust where they shouldn't. What do we do about that? That, I mean it's, the technology is partly to blame for that. Before we had to open an unfolded the newspaper. Yeah, it is nanny's garden next to, you know, bombing in Yemen. I think the response to that is, well, two things, decay of society motivates people to realize that sitting [00:27:30] back and allowing the media system to decay has some real bad consequences. But also thinking about tools that allow people to, to feel that they have, um, more agency than just putting up a, uh, a smiley face or a, you know, a, a sobbing face in those go to structural issues with the web. Speaker 2:How do we Wikipedia FY the Internet in a better way [00:28:00] so that even citizens can write signals in a structured way that a journalist who wants to take in those signals or who's looking for them or who's maybe gotten a really credible signal from that person before might look at and say, oh my God, this needs to be written about because it's going to change this story. What's coming up for you in the future? Bridge is our translation project. So we're working to bring that product into open [00:28:30] source and we're also looking to integrate bridge as a translation solution with check, which is verification solution. So a lot of these events that break around the world are reported outside our language community, giving journalists a good way to get firsthand data, get that professionally translated, then do verification work. On top of that, we're working with some, some stellar partners. Speaker 2:So we've got projects in the pipeline now with the Syria of Video Archive, [00:29:00] uh, which is a really important project to archive and mark up videos, uh, that we hope will have evidentiary value. The Digital Verification Corps, which is, uh, Amnesty International and Berkeley Human Rights Center project. Some of those projects are in the pipeline. We are keen to, to c check in more newsrooms in the u s and to repeat the election work that we've, we've, uh, been doing. If somebody wants to get ahold of you or, [00:29:30] or go to your website, if you could share that with me. Yeah, we're at me, Dan. It's m e e d a n.com. And uh, can always send me an email@helloatmedia.com. That email will go to me and my colleague on show, Mina and, and Tom [inaudible]. Anyone who's interested in contributing to open source software development or helping us think through some of these thorny issues that we're working on that we'd love to hear from you right now is this moment in history. [00:30:00] We need technologists, we need journalists. Uh, but we also need philosophers. I think we are dealing with issues of truth and ethics and we, we've created hugely powerful technologies and maybe we've lost our way. Maybe we needed more philosophers and academics involved in thinking through what this would mean. Speaker 1:Thank you so much and yeah, no, it was, it was my pleasure. That was Ed bice, the Co founder and CEO [00:30:30] of me. 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