[HOT] [CrisisCommons] Verification Handbook

[Pat Tressel]

> Just saw this on Twitter, which may be interesting to some of you (to be
> published Jan 2014):
>
> http://verificationhandbook.com/
>

Thanks for sharing that -- looks like it could be very useful!

I'll be very interested to see how they suggest using crowdsourcing, to see
if it is primarily based on "human intelligence task" processing (like
Amazon's Mechanical Turk), or relies on trained volunteers (e.g. member
organizations of the Digital Humanitarian Network).

But more interesting may be the parts that journalists may encounter more
regularly, and so have established techniques for detection, like
plagiarism and manipulated images.  Hurricane Sandy (for instance) got its
share of fakes...

http://www.snopes.com/photos/natural/sandy.asp

-- Pat
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