Malachy Browne 'Finding facts in the heat of the moment

@MalachyBrowne

Reported.ly

Finding facts in the heat

of the moment

#ASL2015

February 26, 2015

“Social media is not journalism. It’s information.

Journalism is what you do with it.”

- CJ Chivers, New York Times

What’s real?

SOURCE

DATE

LOCATION

VERIFICATION

SOURCE

CASE STUDY: Boston Marathon Bombing

storyful.

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LOCATION

DATE

TOOLS

Free

Professional - €€€

Code your own

What is EXIF data?

Exchangeable Image File

exifdata.com

Storyful Multisearch - Chrome

Dataminr

Apigee

Organise the chaos

700,000 items shared per minute

100 hours per minute

Use LISTS to monitor

100,000 tweets per minute

INVESTIGATIVE CASE STUDIES

BELLINGCAT

Google Crisis Maps

Digital Humanitarians

Challenges

Disappearing archive (evidence locker)

Graphic footage

Safety

Perspective and representation - patriarchal cultures

Support for independent media

Opportunity

Making sense of more data