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What is Grapple? Is your news fake or not? The answer to that question is rarely yes or no. Ask any grade schooler snubbed by a dirty rumor, the quality of information depends on its source. Grapple is a web application designed to put readers in the driver’s seat when it comes to news sources. The application will accompany online news articles and graphically display the origin of different sources within each article to their origin. How does Grapple work? Grapple uses algorithms to trace source material connected to any story published online. It will identify the origin of sources cited in a story and their connection to other stories online, providing an live diagram. The source tree will show readers exactly how any online story travelled across the web, from its point of origin to their computer screen. Where will consumers find Grapple? Grapple will be available as a plugin application that can be installed on web browsers and social media platforms. The plugin will source-tag articles in real time and create a graphic source chart and source quality score that can be accessed through an icon in the browser window. That graphic will provide a link to more extensive information available through the Grapple website or mobile application. What additional information will the app provide? In addition to linking sources through a graphic source diagram, Grapple.com will display disputed and corroborating news sources and will also provide analysis of any root source news reports for quality or potential problem sports. It will highlight potential flags in the original report including use of anonymous sources, secondary sources and uncited information. Will Grapple provide original content? Grapple’s homepage will track trending news stories shared on the most trafficked social media platforms. It will provide a map of all platforms on which a given story is being shared or cited. Grapple will not take an editorial stance on stories, but may produce reports that analyze developing news stories and highlight discrepancies in reportage among various news outlets. Will Grapple be free? The Grapple plugin and app will be free upon launch. The Grapple.com web platform and mobile app will use a traffic-based advertising revenue model.
This could be a game changer for political coverage of this election, especially re targeted ads and fake news.
A new tool shows which political ads are being shown to whom on Facebook, even when you can’t see them in your own feed.
Tim Berners-Lee's new internet protocol is a truly exciting development. This could provide a way to completely rethink the way news is delivered.
With an ambitious decentralized platform, the father of the web hopes it’s game on for corporate tech giants like Facebook and Google.
I spy with my little eye a reality gap: "a full 80% see sexual harassment as either a somewhat serious or very serious problem in the United States...But when asked about sexual harassment in the places they have worked, just 36% call it a somewhat serious or very serious problem."
Add to problems of bias and technology new questions of morality.
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Ken Doctor asks "in 2017, we’re up to competing realities. What about 2027?" I would argue that realities are always competing; many of the journalists that used to reconcile those realities are increasingly unemployed and/or relegated to the fringes of the internet.
Ken Doctor asks "in 2017, we’re up to competing realities. What about 2027?" I would argue that realities are always competing; many of the journalists that used to reconcile those realities are increasingly unemployed and/or relegated to the fringes of the internet.
First Sinclair and now the Kochs are back. In an age of media free-for-all and massive deregulation, will fact-based journalism become an endangered species?
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Eye opening oped in the NY Times today by a former Facebook operations manager. Outlines problems with company's data and business incentive to avoid curtailing wide open data sharing and data collection.
Eye opening oped in the NY Times today by a former Facebook operations manager. Outlines problems with company's data and business incentive to avoid curtailing wide open data sharing and data collection.
It has no incentive to do so. I would know — I worked there.
'Fake news' is not a simple problem & can't be fixed by a single/simple solution. Great article and report Claire Wardle http://ow.ly/yUup30ggaot
Not Fake News: we won the Creative Startups 2017 accelerator cohort!! This was such a fantastic two-month program that put us on the right path to success. Incredible work by our team this past month to get our software demo ready in time.
Grapple won the 2017 Cohort of Creative Startups global accelerator for creative companies. We took hoe a $25,000 price to help get our news fact checking and research software to market!
A tremendous thanks to Creative Startups for bestowing us with their top prize this year. They got our pitch and business model in tip top shape, and now we leave with the financial support we need to 🚀!
Great article on the history of news and "fake news" -- "Social platforms organize their users around particular identities or interests to maximize engagement, fracturing the media into tiny, often unrecognizable pieces." ... We are building software to make these pieces whole again.
Thomas Jefferson was looking for someone to write a hit piece. It was July 1793, just months after the U.S. declared neutrality in a war between Britain and France. The then-Secretary of State wanted a writer—or better yet, an entire publication—to criticize the government’s decision and respond to…
Excited to announce that I will be speaking at the 2017 OEB Global conference in Berlin this December. I'll be speaking during an event called "Teasing Out Agency: Learner-led Curriculum Design," during which I'll talk about the pitfalls of user-designed news applications.
Speakers will include: Pablo AchardUniversity of Geneva, Switzerland Session EDT02SessionSession EDT02Linkshttp://www.unige.chTim AckermannLidl, Germany Session BUS03Tim Ackermann is a seasoned and passionate HR and Talent Acquisition expert with over 20 years of experience in various industries and...
U may have seen some fake news this week about Apple slowing down iPhones. The Independent breaks down the REAL study: http://ow.ly/5U7630ftxpy
Do old iPhones really slow down when new ones come out? Probably not – and it certainly hasn't been proven. A story flew around the internet this...
I wonder how many extra peanut butter cups @ReesesPBCups sold after this fake news story went viral.
The announcement was released late on Friday Sept 8th in a press conference, that the famous candy, the original Reese's peanut butter cups would no longer be available! By October 2017 they will all be removed from the shelves! Manufacturer said due to the new versions and a severe decline in sales...
India's Alt News is fighting the good fight, calling out fake news. We are building software to give them the upper hand!! http://ow.ly/j9or30famR0
Online misinformation has real-world consequences: "Vigilante mobs beat several men to death in separate incidents in the central Indian state of Jharkhand this past May. The violence was incited in part by rumors circulating on WhatsApp that strangers were abducting children, rumors that were fabricated." http://ow.ly/dVXO30falX3
"The impact we’ve made has been noticeable on people in powerful positions, whether it’s politicians or mainstream media. We've opened them up, to ...
The destructiveness of Hurricane Harvey is beset by the cycle of misinformation on the internet. A fresh example:
The story claimed a mosque closed its doors to 'infidels' - but the mosque doesn't exist.
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Sometimes you have to stand on the curb to know the value of what happens there. Too much of our world is seen through windshields.
Don't make people pay for music, says Amanda Palmer. Let them. In a passionate talk that begins in her days as a street performer (drop a dollar in the hat f...
Breaking news sources sometimes overlook context in news about North Korea - U.S. tensions. Not is all it seems...
Anyone trying to follow the situation in North Korea the past few months might be feeling the pangs of whiplash. Today, these two headline existed on a single ...
Grapple was taken under the wing by one of the world's biggest venture capital firms. A huge thanks to David Sorin and the folks at McCarter & English for making this happen.
Grapple Media, a New York-based startup developing artificial intelligence software to fact check online information, will join forces with one of the world's t...
We're on the same page as Facebook in its latest "fake news" effort.
Facebook's playbook of fake news mitigation strategies is beginning to look more like our project at Grapple: empowering readers with more information.
Context is everything. Grapple helps you find it.
In 1998 Trump said Republicans are the dumbest group of voters. NOT! This story is from a quote with no real source. http://ow.ly/yMRj30e09wP
Donald Trump did not say that Republicans are the "dumbest group of voters" in a 1998 'People' magazine interview.
Important news discussion going on today. Did hip hop producer Usher give someone herpes? The devil is in the details, folks. http://ow.ly/COMn30dWtkc
A series of articles about the singer are high on sensationalism, but low on verifiable details.
Snopes, the fact checking website, needs help! They have gotten into a sort-of hostile take over situation. Grapple hopes to help organizations like Snopes by clarifying their research and unwinding factual evolutions in news stories. Support them if you have a chance, it would be a shame to see them go. http://ow.ly/uVWl30dWkNE
The website, known for debunking viral misinformation, claims a vendor is withholding its advertising revenue. The vendor has a different story.
BAD QUOTE ALERT: Breitbart, The Washington Times, the Washington Examiner and others parsed a quote that painted LGBT advocate Tim Gill in a less than accurate manner. http://ow.ly/Y3OP30dUFL8
The controversy over the advocate's 'punish the wicked' quote reveals the worst aspects of rightwing media
Do you know where the stuff you read online comes from, in the phsyical world? The internet masks real context, the "where did you hear that from" question, and that makes detecting fake or misleading news hard.
How can you find out whether what you're reading on the internet is true? Is fake news easy to see? The answer lies in the physical context.
IBM has agreed to host Grapple's prototype news research and fake news detection software for free, and awarded us $12,000 in services.
Over the weekend Grapple was adopted into the IBM Global Entrepreneur Program. The program, known as GEP, is set up to help early stage tech startups pay for th
It's the last day to get our limited edition Donald Trump 'Fake News?' t-shirts at the introductory price of $25. They're hot. Get 'em before the fire goes out.
Discover Fake News? T-Shirt from Grapple , a custom product made just for you by Teespring. With world-class production and customer support, your satisfaction is guaranteed. - In today's sea of online news and social media...
You might already have real hair on your chest. Still, buy this shirt and help us build software that fights fake news.
Discover Fake News, Get Real T-Shirt from Grapple , a custom product made just for you by Teespring. With world-class production and customer support, your satisfaction is guaranteed. - Do you trust the news and information you see...
Do hair plugs bleed badly? We don't know. But we do know this shirt will help you look great. It also helps us build our news authentication software. Buy one (or five) and help fight fake news (and hair).
Discover Fake News? T-Shirt from Grapple , a custom product made just for you by Teespring. With world-class production and customer support, your satisfaction is guaranteed. - In today's sea of online news and social media...
Twitter is inching toward censorship with tools letting users flag content they don't like. Grapple won't censor anything, instead we will be provide more a more clear picture of where your content is coming from.
Twitter is exploring adding a feature that would let users flag tweets that contain misleading, false, or harmful information, according to two people familiar with the company's thinking.
Do you think Donald Trump's hair is fake news? We're not sure, but we are sure you should buy this shirt. All proceeds go to develop our news authorship software.
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The speed of the internet often blinds us to the subtleties of truth.
FACT CHECK Did Sean Spicer put on the wrong colored shoes this week. Not really. Details matter.
A photograph showing the White House press secretary wearing two different types of footwear is real, but the oddity appears to serve a medical purpose rather than an avant-garde fashion choice.
Is that Donald Trump "pee tape" real? @JamesComey said so. As it turns out, @JamesComey is fake. Analysis...
There's new news about the Donald Trump dossier pee tape story, and it's not real. (Hint: @JamesComey is not a verified twitter account).
Watch out for some shady news surrounding the White House and various investigations. Our analysis...
Now that FBI Director Comey is out, will Donald Trump quash the investigation into his associates? Don't buy into one-off reports.
The tech community had a lot to say about fake news last week. Grapple was right in the middle of this collision...
My business partner, Alex Vogel, and I were involved in a collision (conference) in New Orleans last week. Some 10-ought thousand like-minded entrepreneurs and tech CEOs were all in a room together. Here's a summary of what we learned about our business, and where we plan to take things as our proto...
Grapple is making progress! Major conference this week, Europe next month, then MVP!
Grapple, the fake news fact checking software solution, will have a presence at Collision Con in New Orleans, Pioneers Festival in Vienna and VivaTech in Paris.
Are we on the verge of nuclear war? Not so fast... North Korea news should always be taken with a grain of salt. Here is a Grapple analysis of some recurring problems.
Is the United States on the verge of war with North Korea? There's a lot more than meets the eye in reports about the hermit kingdom.
Grapple fact check: Shoddy reporting and mistated facts abound in coverage of United Airlines' bumpgate saga.
United Airlines was off to another roaring start Monday morning, and once again the news coverage is less than accurate.
Artificial intelligence is now. The future of automation has arrived.
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