Let's peek in on what the trolls are up to today... https://dashboard.securingdemocracy.org/ pic.twitter.com/1S9cmbNFIE
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Of course there are real limits to how useful it can be. Like anything else, there's useful signals that should be taken as part of a spectrum. It's certainly not definitive.
The thing is a known serial false positive machine and that anyone continues to cite it is a condemnation of our so-called journalism.
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Have you found any other useful tools for broadly monitoring trends for misinfo?
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Atlantic Council's
@DFRLab is far better. Here's them assessing the claim that Take a Knee was not organic.https://medium.com/dfrlab/botspot-bots-boost-nfl-divides-abec2e025ddb … -
excellent, thank you!
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NP. The Take a Knee claim is important given that it's one of the ones Congress got all worked up on based on the Gizmo™
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Part of the problem is they won’t tell anyone which accounts they are tracking or how they identified them
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Right. Congress has made serial demands on FB and Twitter for their analytics (great!) based off questionable The Gizmo™ findings, but never bothered to ask The Gizmo™ for its methodology. Seems like poor policy making.
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I realize it makes trusting The Gizmo™ tough, but wouldn't revealing the accounts + how they identify them make it tougher to track them?
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I agree that is problematic, but I don't have any confidence in their ranking system
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Seems it was used as the basis of the recent
@NYTimes article on Florida shooting Twitter activity https://nyti.ms/2C6P3Ix Curious how@sheeraf@daiwaka vetted their methodology. -
I would be interested in that as well
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More broadly, substitute "The thing" with "Bill Kristol"
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