Re: long time no chat, CredWeb friends

Thanks for the impressive « outros » everyone.

Since the war began, as you may have seen in the FT and other media,
CREOpoint has been shining a light and combating the proliferation of fake
reports, images, and videos.

The fast expanding effort in
https://www.DisinfoIntelligence.com/IsraelHamasWar is crucial to aid in the
war of public opinion and the fight against hate.

*Please let me know at +1 914 310 4189 if/how your organization can
help* support
this expanding initiative.

Best, JC


On Mon 23 Oct 2023 at 21:19, David Karger <karger@mit.edu> wrote:

> We have at this point built systems and published several papers
> demonstrating our proposed approach:
>
>    1. users indicate who they trust (privately)
>    2. users assess information as accurate or inaccurate (publicly)
>    3. users can filter information based on assessments from people that
>    they trust, e.g. "exclude information assessed as false by people I trust"
>    or "only show information assessed as true by people I trust" or "show me
>    information where people I trust disagree with each other".
>
> We created a prototype social platform <http://trustnet.csail.mit.edu/>
> where this methodology is applied to posts on the platform, as well as a chrome
> browser extension
> <https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/trustnet/nphapibbiamgbhamgmfgdeiiekddoejo>
> that applies this methodology to all pages on the web, as well as all the
> posts in your facebook and twitter feeds, and another extension
> <https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/reheadline/iignpdlabbnnacdkchpnpljkhdlkblbh>
> that lets people you trust edit the headlines of articles on the web (and
> link anchor text) to improve their accuracy.  My student Farnaz who led the
> work is beginning a professorship at U Michigan.
>
> We carried out small experimental deployments that showed positive
> results, and I would love to talk to and collaborate with anyone who has
> ideas about more substantial experiments than run longer or with larger
> groups.
>
> Papers:
> Farnaz Jahanbakhsh, Amy X. Zhang, Adam J. Berinsky, Gordon Pennycook,
> David G. Rand, and David R. Karger. 2021. Exploring Lightweight
> Interventions at Posting Time to Reduce the Sharing of Misinformation on
> Social Media. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 5, CSCW1, Article 18 (April
> 2021), 42 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3449092
>
> Farnaz Jahanbakhsh, Amy X. Zhang, and David R. Karger. 2022. Leveraging
> Structured Trusted-Peer Assessments to Combat Misinformation. Proc. ACM
> Hum.-Comput. Interact. 6, CSCW2, Article 524 (November 2022), 40 pages.
> https://doi.org/10.1145/3555637
>
> Farnaz Jahanbakhsh, Amy X. Zhang, Karrie Karahalios, and David R. Karger.
> 2022. Our Browser Extension Lets Readers Change the Headlines on News
> Articles, and You Won't Believe What They Did! Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput.
> Interact. 6, CSCW2, Article 530 (November 2022), 33 pages.
> https://doi.org/10.1145/3555643
>
>
>
> On 10/23/2023 1:01 PM, Scott Yates wrote:
>
> You are getting this email because at some point you were a part of the
> CredWeb group in W3C, started by the incomparable Sandro Hawke.
>
> Then I came in and tried to create a new mission for the group, and then
> we all just moved on.
>
> This group is now going to get deleted unless we find a new source of
> inspiration and leadership, but before we do that... maybe we could just
> get together to get quick updates on what we've all been doing?
>
> Let's do it at the time we used to do it: this Wednesday at 4 p.m. in
> London, 11 a.m. Eastern, 8 a.m. in California.
>
> Here's a Google Calendar link.
> <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NWxmcmJtYWhwajBpbmt1dWVtZmYzNm04bzUgc2NvdHRAam91cm5hbGxpc3QubmV0&tmsrc=scott%40journallist.net>
>
> I hope to see a lot of you there! If you can't make that time, feel free
> to drop Sandro and me a note and let us know what you are up to, and if you
> have any thoughts about keeping the CredWeb group going.
>
> -Scott Yates
>
>