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NewsTracker

"A grant from the Knight Foundation to PBS News Hour, the Newstracker project has tasked itself with "developing a tool that combines online news content with engagement data from social media and other sources to help journalists and others better understand the scale, scope and shape of the misinformation problem." - Counteringdisinformation.org

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"The tool will enable content analysis by gathering data about what is being written, by whom, where it is distributed, and the size of the audience consuming it."" - Counteringdisinformation.org

Project type
Tool or platform
Language(s)
English
Added
2022-05-31
Last modified
2026-07-12T16:44:22.000Z

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Number of integrations
0
Geographic focus
Global, United States of America 🇺🇸
Geographic focus — country
United States of America 🇺🇸
Source
[Database of Informational Interventions](https://counteringdisinformation.org/interventions)

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