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MisinfoCon is a community of people focused on the challenge of misinformation: MIT 2017, London 2017-2019, Kyiv 2018, DC 2018 and 2020, Perugia 2022, DEFCON 30

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There are at least ten thousand pages on Wikipedia that contain errors caused by auto-populating referencing and citation templates. CiteFix, a new WikiCred project, aims to help solve this problem: misinfocon.com/citefix-a-tool…
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Want to know what #MisinfoconIndia has in store for you? Here's a sneak peek into the "Storytelling and Misinformation" theme 🧵
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On May 12-14, #misinfocon India will convene a gathering of technology, policy, media and design professionals to foster understanding and action around misinformation in India. Check out the newly updated agenda below!
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The agenda for MisinfoCon India has been updated! misinfoconindia.com/schedule Fact checkers, academics, performance artists, game designers...this will be a unique gathering committed to a healthier information ecosystem in India: Register (in-person/ remote): forms.gle/jzHBtkSZNGbv7e…

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"How can we ensure that a platform’s accountability to their shareholders doesn’t result in decisions that deprioritize democratic integrity?" Introducing Arbiter: Auditing the Spread of News in Online Information Ecosystems misinfocon.com/introducing-ar… By @swapneel_mehta #wikicred
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As @krmaher has noted, “Wikipedia is the mirror of the world’s gender biases.” With her new WikiCred project, doctor and Wikipedian @nethahussain aims to help address this issue: > Strengthening women’s health information on Wikipedia misinfocon.com/strengthening-…
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There is evidence that identifying non-reliable sources is an effective tool to increase the knowledge integrity of Wikipedia. WiSCoM’s new WikiCred initiative generates and assesses actionable metrics for source controversiality in Wikipedia. misinfocon.com/wiscom-wikiped…
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On Facebook, you can discover thousands of high-quality pictures of a subject, yet on Wikipedia page for the same place, there are none. Project Korikath aims to correct this by bringing Wikimedia Commons closer to daily life: misinfocon.com/project-korika…
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The sheer availability of information online has led to info overload and an increase misinformation, making it difficult to determine what is credibile, and what is not. A new #WikiCred in Nigeria aims to address this challenge. misinfocon.com/wiki-cred-boot…
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