Re: journalism award signals

On 2/19/20 11:48 AM, Sastry, Nishanth wrote:
>
> Hello Sandro, all,
>
> This just a quick email to introduce myself as a new member to the 
> group, from King’s College London. I had applied to the credible web 
> WG several months back, but got approved by our University contact 
> just days before, and have since been added to this email list.
>
> We have done a bunch of work looking at
>
>  1. hyper partisan websites, in the context of the US Presidential
>     elections:
>
>   * https://nms.kcl.ac.uk/nishanth.sastry/publication/nrswww-2018-b/
>       o This provided inputs for a major expose by Buzzfeed News:
>         https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/inside-the-partisan-fight-for-your-news-feed
>   * https://nms.kcl.ac.uk/nishanth.sastry/publication/nrswww-2020/
>       o Showing that right leaning sites track more intensely than
>         left leaning sites (Covered by WIRED:
>         https://www.wired.com/story/right-left-news-site-ad-tracking/)
>
>  2. bias in news and social media during political crises
>
>   * https://nms.kcl.ac.uk/nishanth.sastry/publication/karamshuk-16-slant/
>
>  3. And finally, on transferring trust across domains (which is very
>     aligned with what I see in the signals draft. We also use age as
>     an “ungameable” signal to transfer trust across domains. We do
>     this for IDs of individuals rather than domains, but the paper
>     develops ways to calibrate trust, answering questions such as – is
>     a 10 year-old Facebook ID more trustworthy than a 15 year old
>     Gmail ID, for example):
>
>   * https://nms.kcl.ac.uk/nishanth.sastry/publication/nr-swww-16/
>

Very nice.  I'd love to get into signals about individuals, but we it 
looked like websites would be a little simpler, and we wanted to start 
in the simplest possible place.  Hopefully we can get into such things 
fairly soon.

>  *
>
>
> I will join the Zoom at 7pm GMT, and can add any further details that 
> may be interesting to the group. Looking forward.
>

Great, looking forward to meeting you.  This meeting will be mostly 
about wrapping up this little sprint, but then hopefully we can expand a 
bit for the next phase.

      -- Sandro
>
> Best wishes
>
> nishanth
>
> *From: *Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>
> *Date: *Wednesday, 19 February 2020 at 15:51
> *To: *Credible Web CG <public-credibility@w3.org>
> *Subject: *journalism award signals
> *Resent from: *<public-credibility@w3.org>
> *Resent date: *Wednesday, 19 February 2020 at 15:51
>
> I did a bit more work on the Journalism Awards, framing it as a 
> general signal and one more specific signals.
>
> I put them into the "reviewed signals" draft, marked as "pending".
>
> Here's a dated version of that draft: 
> https://credweb.org/reviewed-signals-20200219/ 
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> (The undated version presumably wont show them as pending after today, 
> which could confuse someone reading this later.)
>
> Meeting in about 3 hours, as usual. Agenda 
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>        -- Sandro
>
>