The week between Christmas and New Year’s is for many a time to both reflect and anticipate, a time to make decisions both personal and about the state of the world.
But it doesn’t come as a big secret that as we muse and ponder, digital media bombards us with more and more information.
Problem is, some of that information is good and some of it is, well, not so good. Some of it is factual; some of it pure fantasy.
Sometimes it’s easy to tell and what’s true and what’s false. Sometimes, not so much.
Vexed?
Here’s a tip: take a chance on Craig Silverman.
Silverman is a Canadian-based award-winning journalist who created Regret the Error, a blog that reports on media errors and corrections and studies trends regarding accuracy and verification.
His latest project, Emergent.info, is the result of a fellowship at Columbia University’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism.
The site focuses on misinformation and how it permeates across media. Silverman then takes the second step with some good, old-fashioned investigation, working it works to debunk those rumours in real-time.
Craig Silverman joined RCI by phone from his Montreal home. I asked him to describe exactly what he does.
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