Health fact-checking is part of a broader rise in digital verification taking place around the world. Outlets like Snopes.com, Politifact, and organizations including Africa Check and Pesa Check have ...
Nat Gyenes
Nat Gyenes leads Meedan's Digital Health Lab, a public health research unit focused on technologies to support more equitable and stronger health response and communications efforts. She is also a research affiliate at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center, examining the way that the health information we encounter online impacts disease distribution, and the ways in which machine learning approaches can be used to strengthen public health systems. She's on a global hunt for murals that depict how epidemics change cultures, traditions and societies, starting in Mexico City.
From growing anti-vaccine movements to HIV-deniers and climate skeptics, online health misinformation and disinformation fuels the rise of groups that mistrust scientific evidence, and spread their mi...
Fact-checking chat apps at the scale of billions: automated and human approaches
Keeping up-to-date on the topics spreading through social media for tip-generation and fact-checking can quickly become unmanageable given the size and scale of the data. For closed-messaging platform...
Messaging apps such as WhatsApp, Viber, Facebook Messenger, Line, and Telegram are used by billions of people around the world, and provide a host of new opportunities for community engagement, sourci...
Designed to complement the Vaccinating Against Misinfodemics panel, the goal of this workshop is to address the difficulties that media producers and journalists face when trying to accurately communi...
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...
