Scraping is an important tool for researching digital platforms, but the legal ground of doing this work in India are undefined.
This article summarizes the study design and focuses on the behind-the-scenes of how the content for this experiment was developed
This blog is a summary of the Future of India Foundation Politics of Disinformation report launch event that took place on May 5, 2022.
Key ideas underpinning Viral Spiral
A guide on how to organize IRL playtests for your new game
This is a running list of research papers and media we consumed, got inspired by and synthesized in the creation of Viral Spiral. We hope that our background research can serve as a jumping off point for other interventions.
The reward mechanisms of posting on social media are gamified to begin with - so why not a game that deals with just that?
Informed Interventions on misinformation require greater contextual story telling. Social media archives are an important resource in the process.
We tried image hashing on 10k images from our archive and had promising results.
The documentary The Social Dilemma describes why content goes viral on social media but doesn't account for virality on WhatsApp
A lot has been said about the intention of misinformation peddlers, the sensory dimension of content circulation has received far less attention.
Content moderation on social media has been in public scrutiny recently. Takedowns often have unintended consequences which archival projects like Tattle can address. But archival projects are also susceptible to the kind of abuse that necessitates takedowns.
Today we see a rampant proliferation of video content via various social media channels all over the world. We explore the Katna library to extract key frames from a video to feed into our duplicate image search engine
This notebook builds LDA topic models on the headlines of 13,000+ fact-checking stories in the Tattle archive.
A stakeholder map that lists the key actors in the misinformation ecosystem and maps the relationships between them.
A tool to increase discoverability and reach of fact checked content.
Una Hakika is a project in Tana River County in Kenya that aims to respond to misinformation in a region of ethnic conflict.
Data Science blog on finding similar videos in Tattle's archive by Feature Selection of anchor frames
