G000369 "Indiana University: Observatory on Social Media (OSoMe)"

URL: https://osome.iuni.iu.edu/

Sector: Education/academia

Primary role: Fact checking

Secondary role: Journalism

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Region: North America

Country: USA

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Summary: OSoMe uses social media data to develop tools for visualizing the diffusion of information and misinformation online. OSoMe's goal is that individuals and journalists will use these tools to make their own assessments about the trustworthiness of news sources and to contribute to the growing field of data journalism. OSoMe also houses Hoaxy, a web-based tool that visualizes the spread of articles online. Hoaxy searches for claims and fact-checking going back to 2016. It tracks the sharing of links to stories from low-credibility sources and independent fact-checking organizations. It also calculates a bot score, which is a measure of the likely level of automation.