Malachy Browne is Managing Editor and Europe Anchor of social media reporting project Reported.ly, and formerly news editor of social media news agency-slash-verification experts Storyful:
1/ A few tweets about the process of verifying details of air strike on #Ghouta
— Malachy Browne (@malachybrowne) January 23, 2015
2/ @AP alerts 32 killed in Damascus according to activists. Get Arabic for Damascus from Wikipedia. Search Twitter YouTube to find more.
— Malachy Browne (@malachybrowne) January 23, 2015
3/ Several "scraped" pictures and videos are shared with captions like "شام ريف دمشق حمورية حرائق ودمار جراء قصف للطيران الحربي 23 1 2015 "
— Malachy Browne (@malachybrowne) January 23, 2015
4/ Isolate the locale in Damascus. Tip: Syrian uploaders often use nomenclature like Region – town – description – date
— Malachy Browne (@malachybrowne) January 23, 2015
5/ Non-Arabic speakers, use G Translate to identify the locale (Hamoryeh mistranslates as "pivotal"). Listen to it pic.twitter.com/a0ciWCfo77
— Malachy Browne (@malachybrowne) January 23, 2015
6/ Search again across social platforms for the locale in Arabic or local language (Put yourself in the uploader's shoes).
— Malachy Browne (@malachybrowne) January 23, 2015
7/ Date-sort results to identify 1st uploads. YouTube is platform of choice for most Syrians. Note several scrapes. pic.twitter.com/DiNJvxPYwx
— Malachy Browne (@malachybrowne) January 23, 2015
8/ Tip: @Storyful's multi-search Chrome extension is a great time-saving tool to filter social. Learn how to use it pic.twitter.com/FHuJDu359n
— Malachy Browne (@malachybrowne) January 23, 2015
9/ Look at the first videos uploaded matching your search, the times they were uploaded. Examine the uploader history – consistent?
— Malachy Browne (@malachybrowne) January 23, 2015
10/ In this case, several videos by local eyewitnesses showed the carnage. See @reportedly's timeline (Graphic images)
— Malachy Browne (@malachybrowne) January 23, 2015
11/ Each video holds location clues: a distinct water tower, rounded building-corner, layout of road/buildings pic.twitter.com/NTkBz15dYi
— Malachy Browne (@malachybrowne) January 23, 2015
12/ Search Google Maps for حمورية, Damascus – it takes you there. Compare the distinctive features (water tower) with your videos & match
— Malachy Browne (@malachybrowne) January 23, 2015
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Reblogged this on The Red Elm and commented:
Great series of tweets via Online Journalism on verification of information.
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