MisinfoCon Kyiv this week

It's the 27th, hacks and hackers! That means this week will see the third MisinfoCon convening in Kiev, Ukraine, on Tuesday and Wednesday:

You can follow along, as always, at the MisinfoCon Twitter account or hashtag. And keep an eye out for more #MisinfoCon-related news soon.

The week ahead:

• Santiago is talking about urban mobility
• Miami and IRE are holding their regular open labs
• Arequipa is discussing informed elections

Worth a read:

• Elon Musk proposed - possibly tongue-in-cheek - a website for crowdsourcing a credibility score for journalists and publications.  Organizations including Hacks/Hackers' own Credibility Coalition are already on it (Poynter)
• A combination of incompetence and Silicon Valley hubris led to one of the biggest corporate fraud cases this century - all unraveled by one reporter (NY Mag)
• "A growing number of independent, evidence-based, peer-reviewed studies have found that, in fact, search engines and social media lead most people to more diverse news — the opposite of the filter bubble hypothesis" (NiemanLab)

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