Keeping up-to-date on the topics spreading through social media for tip-generation and fact-checking can quickly become unmanageable given the size and scale of the data. For closed-messaging platform...
Scott Hale
Scott A. Hale is a Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute of the University of Oxford, UK, Director of Research at Meedan, and a Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute. His cross-disciplinary research develops and applies new techniques in the computational sciences to social science questions and puts the results into practice with industry and policy partners. He is particularly interested in mobilization/collective action, agenda setting, and antisocial behaviour (e.g., hate speech) and has a strong track record in building tools and teaching programmes that enable wider access to new methods and forms of data.
Fact-checking public health epidemics: an interactive workshop to understand COVID-19
Misinformation about the Coronavirus disease (Covid-19) has spread faster than the virus itself. Images, videos and text messages on social media and closed messaging apps have witnessed racist explan...