How Civic Activists Counter Fake News in Taiwan
More than 17,000 people have installed an extension created by civic activists in Taiwan to counter fake news on social media.
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NASA Partners With iSeeChange on Citizen-Science Climate Project
Straddling both citizen journalism and citizen science, iSeeChange is pairing crowdsourced, on-the-ground observations with data from NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 mission in the hope of telling a new story about our changing world.
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Move Over, Meerkat. Pack Your Bags, Periscope. Rhinobird Is Here.
Full disclosure: Felipe Heusser is a member of Civic Hall. The livestreaming space is starting to feel more than a little crowded, with Meerkat and Periscope battling it out for users and honorifics like “the new killer campaign app,” but that hasn’t stopped a new breed of service called Rhinobird...
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How to Get Extra Eyes (& Maybe a Few Bucks) on Your Protest Pics
A new Protestify service connects citizen photo- and video-journalists with media companies so that they can be compensated for their work, but will media companies pay?