'The fact that, in the span of less than year, Facebook effectively removed anything resembling news from the platform, even conservative news, and allowed AI-generated spam to take its place, and both investors and advertisers don’t care, should tell you all you need to know…

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Ritu Kapur
Maria Ressa
Vivian Schiller
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Super grateful to Skoll Foundation for this recognition of the efforts of team Meedan.

In a critical time, #SkollAwardee meedan CEO ed bice is leading a movement to safeguard and deliver reliable, accessible information. #SkollWF

When you feel like the barrage of mis/disinfo is overwhelming, be grateful for the incredible work of ed bice and meedan who are harnessing new technologies to fight back and protect our info ecosystem. Check out their work and support them. Congrats on the #SkollWF Award!

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Led by Scott Hale (Scott Hale) from our Management Board (also Associate Professor at Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford, Research Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute and Director of Research at meedan).

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Maribel Pérez Wadsworth, the new president of Knight Foundation ⁦Knight Foundation⁩ speaking with the foundation’s staff after the announcement of her appointment. #philanthropy #artsincommunity #journalism #research #inclusion #outcomesoverouputs

🗞️ Introducing #PressForward : A national initiative by a coalition of foundations to inform and engage communities by bolstering local news.

We’re elevating local journalism and bridging gaps in newsrooms by injecting over $500M dollars.

Learn more👇: macfound.org/press/press-re…

Thanks Craig!! We appreciate it.

Next Tuesday, I am so excited to facilitate the conversation about 2 different Arabic machine learning modules to detect difficulties classification of online violence in Arabic on social media, showing use cases from Jordan and Palestine. Its a hands on workshop so get ready 😊

Doing twitter space in this space

.@MariaRessa of Rappler reflects on how #misinformation undermines democracy and the importance of journalism in the #SkollWF Opening Plenary.

I have met many good people over the past 20 years of working in online journalism, but none as bright and kind and true as my dear friend and colleague Mandy Jenkins gofundme.com/f/help-mandy-r…

Clarification on the viral WhatsApp forward regarding World Bank Scholarship Program for Developing Countries 2023.

To get informed on our latest fact checks join our WhatsApp group: bit.ly/3T29JVF

World Bank #Scholarships2023 #FactCheck

Paying the dues on the romance of working with a globally distributed team of forty creative and brilliant people means singing Karaoke at 730am for the holiday party 🎉

The startup is launching in California, one of the states trying to boost its housing supply.

In case you missed it, The Washington Post featured our work with AFP Fact Check 🔎 on a WhatsApp fact-checking service for immigrant communities ahead of the US Midterms.
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Hey meedan Kat Lo 💘 GDC over :(

At #TheCrown premiere with this on my hand because we need Free Alaa, who is on hunger strike in prison and may die any day now only because he makes us believe that a better world is possible. #Cop27 #FreeAlaa

Our work with NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises Univision News Animal Político and AFP News Agency fact-checking WhatsApp in Español during us midterms was covered in WaPo today - meedan washingtonpost.com/technology/202…