We are delighted to announce the launch of our 2019 Meedan Annual Report.
Our annual reports involve four main sections:
CEO’s LetterIn NumbersWhat People Are Saying About UsFinancials
Taking pride in being a global team, the Meedan 2019 Annual Report lists the cities and the countries we have traveled to in 2019, including global events, sponsoring local events and/or talking about misinformation and presenting the work we are doing.
We have always been, and will continue, developing the technology and the programs that help with creating more equitable internet with the aim of strengthening global journalism, digital literacy, and accessibility of information through our projects Check Global, Digital Health Lab, Credibility Coalition, Pop-Up Newsroom and Content Moderation.
While we are publishing our last year report today during a pandemic, it occurred to us that our work in 2018 when we established Digital Health Lab for responding to misinfodemics has positioned us well to contribute to the unfolding crisis of COVID-19.
Looking at our annual reports published through the past years reminds us of how far we have come with the global contribution we have been always committed to.
This report and the past annual reports of Meedan live in the About page on our website.
Footnotes
- Online conversations are heavily influenced by news coverage, like the 2022 Supreme Court decision on abortion. The relationship is less clear between big breaking news and specific increases in online misinformation.
- The tweets analyzed were a random sample qualitatively coded as “misinformation” or “not misinformation” by two qualitative coders trained in public health and internet studies.
- This method used Twitter’s historical search API
- The peak was a significant outlier compared to days before it using Grubbs' test for outliers for Chemical Abortion (p<0.2 for the decision; p<0.003 for the leak) and Herbal Abortion (p<0.001 for the decision and leak).
- All our searches were case insensitive and could match substrings; so, “revers” matches “reverse”, “reversal”, etc.
