User email verification for Laravel 5

User email verification for Laravel 5

Laravel comes with a great authentication and authorization system. As of 5.2 version, it also provides authentication scaffolding for views, routes, and controllers. But yet one feature is missing…

Social Media Verification & Age of Fast Publishing

Social media has enabled stories to go viral quickly and at times false information and satire spread because the story has not been verified.

Get Your Facts Right

Last December, news organizations like Forbes, Fox News, NY Post among others, released a report about Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán - the infamous drug dealer and most wanted man by Mexican authorities. The story was about a supposed email in which El Chapo threatened ISIS leader Abu Bakr al…

Just Believable Enough

Why verification matters and its impact on your readers

The Internet is like the Wild Wild West in the digital age, filled with misinformed and unsophisticated readers who will believe (almost) anything that you tell them. If…

Bilgi doğrulama yöntem ve araçları

Sosyal medyada bir bilgi paylaştığınızda, paylaştığınız bilginin doğru olup olmadığından nasıl emin…

Social Media Verification — Tipps

Die Verifikation von Inhalten in Sozialen Netz ist nicht gerade “rocket science”. Dennoch ist es manchmal auf den ersten Blick schwer zu beurteilen. Wer sich an ein paar simple Regeln hält, kommt schnell zu einem Ergebnis, das jedoch im Zweifel lauten muss: nicht senden…

Social Media Verification — Tools

Ist das Foto/Video echt? Wie alt ist es? Wer hat es gemacht? Wo wurde es aufgenommen? — Wichtige Fragen im journalistischen Alltag.

Die Verifikation von Inhalten auf Social Media kann im besten Fall in wenigen Minuten geschehen, wenn man die…

How Una Hakika helped slow the spread of dangerous rumors in rural Kenya

Valuable lessons in how misinformation travels can be learned from two years of research from the NGO project