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The Observatory on Social Media’s Toolkit to Combat Misinformation

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                              The Observatory on Social Media’s Toolkit to 
Combat Misinformation


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                              Indiana University’s Observatory on Social 
Media (OSoMe) is a research center which studies the role of media and 
technology in society. OSoMe unites data scientists and journalists to 
investigate how information and misinformation spread online. It also 
provides students, journalists and citizens with resources, data, and 
training to identify and counter attempts to intentionally manipulate public 
opinion.

                               Check out some of the tools that OSoMe has 
created to combat online misinformation:

                                a.. Hoaxy: Hoaxy works to visualize the 
spread of information on Twitter. Users can search on Twitter and visualize 
results from the past week, or users can visualize the spread of claims 
collected by Hoaxy. Hoaxy visualizes temporal trends, which plot the 
cumulative number of Twitter shares over time and diffusion networks, which 
display how claims spread from person to person. Using the visualizations, a 
user can understand how information, and in turn, misinformation is spread 
on Twitter.
                                b.. Botometer: Botomoeter checks the 
activity of a Twitter account through a machine learning algorithm and gives 
it a score, based on how likely the account is to be a bot. A low score 
indicates that the account is likely to be human, while a high score 
indicates that the account is likely a bot.
                                c.. Fakey: Fakey is a game that works to 
teach media literacy and analyze how people interact with misinformation. 
The game shows a simulated news feed with different articles, some of which 
come from legitimate news sources, and others that come from sites with 
typically misleading information, clickbait headlines, conspiracy theories, 
and other types of misinformation.
                                d.. BotSlayer: BotSlayer is "an application 
that tracks and detects potential manipulation of information spreading on 
Twitter." BotSlayer is an application that a user downloads on their 
computer, and allows users to explore tweets and accounts associated with 
suspicious campaigns on Twitter. The tool works in tandem with Hoaxy, as 
once you explore tweets that are potentially spreading misinformation, you 
can visualize the data using Hoaxy.
                                e.. EchoDemo: EchoDemo allows users to 
visualize how echo chambers emerge from social media. The tool works as a 
simulation that demonstrates how two mechanisms of social media, influence 
and friending/unfriending can lead to polarized social networks.
                                f.. Bot Electioneering Volume: The Bot 
Electioneering Volume (BEV) tool "visualizes the activity of likely bots on 
Twitter around the 2018 US midterm election." The tool allows uses to 
explore the activity of bots on a daily basis, and how their activity worked 
to influence online discourse about the election. The tool also shows the 
topics targeted by likely bots.
                                g.. Trends: The Trends tool analyzes the 
volume of tweets with a given hashtag, URL, or keyword over a given period 
of time. This tool allows users to search for a term and a date, and then 
the tool visualizes the number of tweets about the hashtag, URL, or keyword 
during a certain period of time.
                                h.. Networks: The Network tool creates an 
interactive network to show how information spreads across Twitter. Users 
can search the OSoMe archive using a single hashtag or a list of hashtags 
over a specific period of time, and the tool will visualize the data into an 
information network.
                                i.. CoVaxxy: The CoVaxxy tool works to 
visualize the relationship between COVID-19 vaccine adoption and online 
(mis)information. The user can compare maps and graphs between online 
discussions and vaccine adoption, allowing them to understand how the 
differences between misinformation spread about vaccination rates and actual 
vaccination rates.
                              Check out more from OSoMe on Twitter HERE


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