Stephen Colbert-Inspired Site "Truthy" Is a Swift Boat Torpedo for Twitter Users. 'Tis the season, sadly, for misinformation.
With elections coming up on November 2nd, we can pretty much expect the Internet to be clogged with falsehoods, outright lies, and general wrongness. But the Internet is supposedly getting smarter, right? Shouldn't there be a way to flag spurious claims that Candidate X is a Zoroastrian, that Candidate Y hates puppies, and that Candidate Z was born on the moon?
Researchers at Indiana University have just launched Truthy.indiana.edu, which they humbly declare a "a sophisticated new Twitter-based research tool that combines data mining, social network analysis and crowdsourcing to uncover deceptive tactics and misinformation leading up to the Nov. 2 elections. " What the Truthy team does is sift through thousands of tweets to figure out how a certain meme was born and how it grew. Political Moneyball, The Wall Street Journal. Filter by committee type...
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We'll hear from: • Andrew Garcia Phillips (The Wall Street Journal), Political Moneyball mapping the interconnection between campaign donations, campaign organizations and individuals • Jeff Larson (ProPublica), Message Machine analysis of election campaign emails. Truthy. Truthy.