Evaluating Crowdsourcing Behaviours in Identifying Online Misinformation
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January 11, 2022
In collaboration with UNDP Accelerator Lab Kenya and the Healthy Internet Project (HIP) incubated at TED, Busara conducted a live experimental demonstration of the Healthy Internet Project (HIP) plugin, that is an open-source web browser extension that allows users to flag content online; it is intended to help curb the spread of lies, abuse, and fear mongering, as well as to uplift useful ideas on the internet. Users can mark flags as mild / minor, medium, or severe across the latter flagging categories