Programs

  • Program 1 [2020]

    Check - The Check Global Program encompasses all areas of Meedans work in programs, research, network, content, and technology. This program is built around Check, our award-winning, open source collaborative media annotation and misinformation response workflow software, and implemented through partnerships with a range of global independent media and civil society organizations. We measure the impact of our work in partnership with Birmingham City Universitys M&E (measurement and evaluation) Lab. (Continued on Schedule O.)
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    Dates
    Jan 1, 2020 – Dec 31, 2020
    Source
    990
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    $2.7M

  • Program 2 [2020]

    Digital Health Labs - Meedans Digital Health Lab expresses the technology, research, and ethical program design approach we have built into online health information projects. Founded in 2018 with support from the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation (RWJF), the labs work is researching, designing and testing a digital response framework for addressing health misinformation online, centered around accessibility and equity. (Continued on Schedule O.)
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    Dates
    Jan 1, 2020 – Dec 31, 2020
    Source
    990
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    $460.9K

  • Program 3 [2020]

    Meedan Research - Meedan Research has conducted ground-breaking research focused on challenging computer science topics including claims extraction and matching, cross-lingual claims matching, topic extraction, and image matching. This includes two recent papers: Claim Matching Beyond English to Scale Global Fact-Checking is a paper that builds datasets indicating (a) whether a social media message makes a claim that can be fact-checked and (b) how similar the claims are between pairs of messages in English, Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, and Malayalam. This research generated a new sentence embedding model for these languages and achieves state-of-the-art performance. (Continued on Schedule O.)
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    Dates
    Jan 1, 2020 – Dec 31, 2020
    Source
    990
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    $127.2K