Milestones

July

MediaVault

• Complete MVP by Global Fact - DONE!
• • This covers scraping for Twitter/Facebook/Instagram, text and image/video search, ingest of MediaReview fields and URLs from FactStream, user management
• Live ingest from FactStream - July 1
• • Delayed due to some interesting bugs when importing using the script from FactStream and Chris not wanting to deploy anything before he disappears that may affect FactStream.
• Work on bringing in MediaReview from Simon’s feed
• Implement design and UX plan for front-end
• Initial testing by team
• Any more legal work?

Fact-Check Insights

• Begin building ingest of ClaimReview and MediaReview data
• • Pull in ClaimReview (and MediaReview, when possible) from all sources — Google feed, FactStream, scraping for WordPress plug-in users and other non-Markup Tool users — and the overall features/architecture for the site that will host the downloadable dataset
• Develop policies for who gets access and registration method
• Determine what data we want to display on the site, in addition to the full dataset download
• Begin design and UX for website that hosts the dataset

2022:

MediaVault:

• Feedback / iteration / bug squashing
• Initial testing with FactStream fact-checkers
• Feedback / iteration / bug squashing
• Develop policies for who gets access beyond fact-checkers
• Security audit
• Implementation of additional user management, including non-fact-checkers
• Expansion to non-FactStream fact-checkers (dependent on outside factors)
• Expansion to non-fact-checkers

Fact-Check Insights:

• Create system to update the data on an agreed-upon timeline
• Create downloadable database
• Build site
• Implement user management
• Create tools for data visualization on site
• Initial testing with team
• Feedback / iteration / bug squashing
• Initial testing with outside users
• Feedback / iteration / bug squashing