The tech nonprofit’s “Fact Checker” and “Misinformation Snitting” project received $5.7 million from the federal government in 2021. Daily Caller News Foundation It was reported on Monday.
Government spending data reveals that the National Science Foundation: won millions of dollars in grants to Meadan for a project titled “Fact Champ Fact Checker, an Academic and Community Collaboration Tool, and Minority-Led Partnerships to Combat Hate, Abuse, and Misinformation.”
Part of Midan joint insight According to its website, the research project aims to create a “misinformation tip line” as a way to “support free speech.”
Meadan’s website states: “We are committed to promoting a healthy and inclusive online public sphere where everyone, including historically marginalized and underrepresented groups, can participate equally.” There is.
“Our overarching goal is to help people understand and evaluate the information they see online. We do this by building tools like “Information Tips.”
Meadan said that “disinformation” is “too often invisible to mainstream disinformation efforts.”
“Co-Insights brings together community organizations, academics, and fact-checkers to combat misleading and harmful narratives. In this way, we promote interracial solidarity and increase understanding. deepening and promoting better democracy,” the nonprofit group claimed.
Meadan’s fact-checking efforts aim to identify and track narratives over time, rather than focusing on one claim at a time.
“This approach has the potential to move the status quo away from content moderation and toward an approach more similar to email spam detection and local antivirus software.”
check, a Meedan product, allows users to “instantly deliver fact-checks” through WhatsApp, Messenger, Telegram, X, and other apps. The nonprofit says Check has become “the global leader in fact-checking and annotation software for collaborative fact-checking projects.”
“Misinformation is destabilizing elections, slowing recovery from the pandemic, perpetuating climate change denial, and sparking civil unrest and violence,” Meadan said in a December paper. blog post. “Meedan’s team can help local partners organize and scale up collaborative efforts to uncover and combat harmful misinformation, especially in public and closed messaging spaces during critical moments for citizens. We are actively combating this challenge by building open source software that enables
The nonprofit technology company received a $500,000 grant from the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation to further develop Check’s shared feed capabilities. The foundation, which has supported left-wing groups, receives funding from the New Venture Fund, an organization linked to the Arabella Advisors black-finance group.
Neither Meadan nor NSF responded to DCNF’s requests for comment.
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