True or false? Sorting rumours and sifting data
Rumours spread fast on social media, and finding out what's true or false can be difficult.
A British multimedia journalist who moved to Switzerland in 2010, Jo has worked in TV, radio and online. She leads a team of video journalists, picture editors, a graphic designer, data journalist and community developer, and specialises in social media. Initials: jf
At swissinfo.ch we’ve been testing out an automated way to do exactly this, as part of a project called PhemeExternal link. We also find out how our data journalist, Duc-Quang Nguyen, finds data sources in Switzerland, and how he turns them into articles.
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