The Credibility Coalition is a research community that fosters collaborative approaches to understanding the veracity, quality and credibility of online information that is a foundation of civil society. We are journalists, researchers, academics, students, policy-makers, technologists and engaged non-specialists, and aim to develop common standards for information credibility by incubating activities and initiatives that bring together people and institutions from a variety of backgrounds.
Credibility Coalition Community Lead Nevin Thompson, and CredCo Research Lead Scott Hale will lead an overview of CredCo's goals, activities and results so far.
The Credibility Coalition intends to publicly communicate about this session to members in its network.
We're hoping that many efforts and discussions will continue after Mozfest. Share any ideas you already have for how to continue the work from your session.:The Credibility Coalition holds weekly call that are open to the public. We feature presentations from our community members as well as innovative new research and prototypes in the content credibility space.
Nevin serves as community lead of Credibility Coalition, a research community of journalists, researchers, and technologists that fosters collaborative approaches to understanding the veracity, quality and credibility of online information.
Dr Hale is Director of Research at Meedan, a technology non-profit. He helps lead the Credibility Coalition and is an Associate Professor at the University of Oxford.
Previously astronomer and physicist. Currently chairing Economics of Misinformation Working Group at Credibility Coalition and doing machine learning at Kensho Technologies. Focus on natural language processing.
James Stomber is a behavioral scientist and mixed-methods HCI researcher, currently leading a project with the Credibility Coalition’s UX Working Group.