From the United States to the Marshall Islands to Pakistan and the Philippines, countries around the world are experiencing rising rates of floods, heatwaves and natural disasters. Climate change is a...
Ed Bice
Ed Bice is the founding CEO of Meedan and in this capacity has since 2005 devoted his professional energies to creating digital tools and programs that promote collaborative verification, annotation, and translation. In this role he has led strategy and project definition for several software development efforts in social linguistic computing, cross-cultural education, and social media journalism. Ed has been a participating council member in the World Economic Forum, an Advisor to First Draft, and a co-Chair of the Aspen Institute USPP. He holds US Patent on Human+Machine approach to Natural Language Translation.
Vaccinating against misinfodemics: journalists and public health misinformation
In the field of global health, information quality crises can quickly escalate into public health crises, with grave consequences for both population health and trust in institutions more broadly. Wid...
In May 2018, a Belgian political party circulated a video of Donald Trump that went viral. The problem? It wasn’t a real video. An example of synthetic media, popularly known as deepfakes, the video...
Trust in journalism is the problem it seems everyone’s talking about right now. This panel isn’t about talk; it’s about doing. Practical solutions you can take back do your newsrooms today to he...
I’m sorry, Dave, I can’t verify that: misinformation and AI, challenges and opportunities. Given the scale of misinformation and disinformation online, new approaches to detecting and addressing ...
Electionland was a unique collaborative project to track and cover voting problems during the 2016 US elections across the whole country and in real-time. It was also the largest social newsgathering ...
Verification, Collaboration and Community Engagement: Amnesty International’s lessons from using Open Source Intelligence to monitor global human rights violations and train the next generation of ...
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