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Israeli weapons In Libya? How @acarvin and his Twitter followers debunked sloppy journalism · acarvin · Storify

My 20+ page study on verifying crowdsourced information is now publicly available here as a PDF and here as an open Google Doc for comments.

Information Forensics: Five Case Studies on How to Verify Crowdsourced Information from Social Media | iRevolution

http://irevolution.net/2011/11/29/information-forensics-five-case-studies/

http://storify.com/twittermedia/npr-s-andy-carvin-uses-twitter-to-debunk-a-hoax

Around this time I received a Twitter direct message from @DannySeesIt, a Syrian I've known since the Egyptian revolution. He's given me permission to publish the text of his DM:

Casestudies

Israeli weapons In Libya? How @acarvin and his Twitter followers debunked sloppy journalism · acarvin · Storify

Information Forensics: Five Case Studies on How to Verify Crowdsourced Information from Social Media | iRevolution

NPR's Andy Carvin Uses Twitter to Debunk a Hoax · twittermedia · Storify