1. Source: Janis Krums . @jkrums
Taken on 15 Jan 2009
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Verification of UGC in news: status, challenges & ways ahead
Taken on 15 Jan 2009

2. Verification of UGC (or eyewitness media)...
... is (or better: should be)
at the core of journalistic work
As published by the Daily Mail, UK
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Source: ZDF Neo.
Manipulation of a video of a Varoufakis speech of 2013.
Available on YouTube here.
Original video by Martin Beros available on YouTube here.
Source: Twitter stream of Storyful
(@Storyful) on 24 March 2015
Image of 2007 plane crash in Turkey

3. Verification of UGC (or eyewitness media)...
... is considered as highly relevant (by journalists and media folk alike)
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for respective copyright holders

4. BUT
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BUT

5. The Status of Verification
Different strategies and approaches among news organisations
Different skill sets and experience among journalists
Variety of useful tools available (most not specifically made for
journalists)
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Source: Screenshot of TinEye
Source: Screenshot Panoramio
Source: Jochen Spangenberg
(BBC Newsroom / SMUGC Hub 2013)
Source: Screenshot of
Jeffrey‘s Exif Viewer
Source: Screenshot Geofeedia

6. The Status of Verification
Variety of approaches / initiatives / services
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Sources: Screenshots of Emergent, Storyful ,Bellingcat , reported.ly, Grasswire, witness.org, Veri.ly

7. The Status of Verification
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8. Summing up
Awareness is rising
Distributed know-how
Lots of useful tools
Verification at present …
… field for specialists / experts
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… field for specialists / experts
… lots of manual work
… no integrated technical solutions (yet)
In 2013,
we developed and started …

9. Involved
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10. REVEAL approach and project components
R&D
Revealing/analysing hidden concepts in
Social Media
Computer-assisted / algorithm-supported
verification
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verification
From image to text to geodata (and more)
Develop individual components
Combine components into integrated platform
Investigate legal aspects (re use of UGC)
Survey and assess the market
Liaise and cooperate with players in the field Sources: see respective
contributions on
http://revealproject.eu/

11. Focus of R&D work
C
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ontributor
ontent
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ontent
ontext

12. BUT
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BUT

13. Algorithms as an assisitant
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Source: plenty.r. (Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0)

14. To find out more... And go into details...
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15. Thanks very much!
Kontakt
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Jochen Spangenberg,
DW Innovation Berlin
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