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D8.2.3 Dissemination activities report Version: v2.0 – final deliverable, Date: 31/12/2016

Project Title: REVEAL Contract No. FP7-610928

Project Coordinator: INTRASOFT International S.A. www.revealproject.eu

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REVEAL

FP7-610928

REVEALing hidden concepts in Social Media

Deliverable D8.2.3

Dissemination activities report

Editor(s): Ruben Bouwmeester

Responsible Partner: DW

Status-Version: Final Deliverable – v2.0

Date: 31/12/2016

EC Distribution: Public

Project Number: FP7-610928

Project Title: REVEAL




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Title of Deliverable: Dissemination activities report

Date of Delivery to the EC: 31/12/2016

Workpackage responsible

for the Deliverable: WP8 – Training, Dissemination and Exploitation Activities

Author(s): Ruben Bouwmeester, Jochen Spangenberg

Contributor(s): All partners

Reviewer(s): INTRASOFT

Approved by: All Partners

Abstract: This deliverable presents the dissemination activities that have

been carried out, the dissemination materials that have been

produced and the effects that were achieved in the course of the

reporting period from April 2015 (M18) up to - but partly excluding -

December 2016 (M38). The initial dissemination strategy can be

found in deliverable D8.2.1 – Dissemination plan and initial set of

activities.

The REVEAL dissemination deliverable is to be used by consortium

members and the European Commission in order to acquire a

complete picture of the dissemination activities that have been

performed. Furthermore, individually performed dissemination

activities are presented, including participation at events and

conferences, as well as publications to date.

An overriding aim of the dissemination strategy was to engage the

REVEAL target audiences and project stakeholders. This

engagement has shaped the project’s impact both within the project

consortium, as well as in the greater community.

Keyword List: Dissemination activities, dissemination material, website, Social

Media, events, publications, conferences, journals, impact




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DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION

Document Revision History

Version Date

Modifications Introduced

Modification Reason Modified by

V0.1 12/12/2016 Creation of the document structure and initial draft DW

V0.2 14/12/2016 First round of internal comments, additions,

modifications DW

V0.3 15/12/2016 Inclusion of data/material provided by all project

partners DW/ALL

V1.0 16/12/2016 Completed first draft and sent for internal DW review DW

V1.1 16/12/2016 DW internal reviewed version sent to consortium for

final comments ALL

V1.2 19/12/2016 Final additions / modifications included in final draft

deliverable. DW

V1.3 19/12/2016 Internal review by INTRASOFT INTRA

V1.9 20/12/2016 Final formatting and addressing of internal review

comments DW

V2.0 31/12/2016 QA, Final Approval, Submission to EC INTRA




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CONTENTS

1 INTRODUCTION......................................................................................... 10

2 DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES REPORTING ................................................ 11

2.1 WEBSITE ................................................................................................... 11 2.2 TWITTER ................................................................................................... 18 2.3 SLIDESHARE / PRESENTATION CHANNELS ............................................................. 24 2.4 YOUTUBE / VIDEO PRODUCTIONS ...................................................................... 24 2.5 DISSEMINATION EVENTS ................................................................................. 26 2.6 PAPERS & PUBLICATIONS ................................................................................ 30

2.6.1 Scientific papers and publications ................................................................................... 30

2.6.2 Other publications ........................................................................................................... 34

2.7 PHYSICAL DISSEMINATION TOOLS ...................................................................... 38 2.7.1 Banners ........................................................................................................................... 38

2.7.2 Flyers ............................................................................................................................... 38

3 COLLABORATION WITH OTHER PROJECTS, INITIATIVES AND PEOPLE ..... 39

4 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS .................................................................. 42




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LIST OF FIGURES

FIGURE 1: REVEAL WEBSITE .................................................................................... 12 FIGURE 2: WEBSITE - VISITS OVER TIME ....................................................................... 15 FIGURE 3: WEBSITE - VISITS BY DAY OF WEEK ................................................................. 15 FIGURE 4: WEBSITE - ACCESS VIA SOCIAL MEDIA ............................................................ 16 FIGURE 5: WEBSITE - VISITOR MAP .............................................................................. 16 FIGURE 6: REVEAL TWITTER CHANNEL ......................................................................... 18 FIGURE 7: TWITTER - TWEETS MOST RETWEETED .............................................................. 20 FIGURE 8: TWITTER - MOST INFLUENTIAL FOLLOWERS ........................................................ 21 FIGURE 9: TWEETS SHOWING ENGAGEMENT WITH DIVERSE REVEAL TARGET AUDIENCES ............... 22 FIGURE 10: TWEETS SHOWING IMPACT WITH DIVERSE REVEAL TARGET AUDIENCES .................... 23 FIGURE 11: YOUTUBE – OBSERVATIONAL STUDY VIDEO ...................................................... 25 FIGURE 12: IMPRESSIONS OF THE REVEAL FINAL WORKSHOP IN ATHENS. IMAGES BY JOCHEN

SPANGENBERG. ...................................................................................... 30 FIGURE 13: IMPRESSIONS OF MULTIPLE EVENTS WHERE REVEAL WAS PRESENTED ...................... 30 FIGURE 14. ARTICLE ABOUT REVEAL PROJECT’S TWEET VERIFICATION ASSISTANT ON

JOURNALISM.CO.UK ................................................................................. 36 FIGURE 15: PRESS RELEASE BY INTRASOFT WITH A STATUS UPDATE OF THE REVEAL PROJECT ..... 37 FIGURE 16: PRESS RELEASE BY FIRST DRAFT INTRODUCING THEIR PARTNER NETWORK ................. 37 FIGURE 17: REVEAL BANNERS FOR ENTERPRISE AND JOURNALISM USE CASES ........................... 38 FIGURE 18: REVEAL A5 FLYERS FOR ENTERPRISE AND JOURNALISM USE CASES ......................... 39




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LIST OF TABLES

TABLE 1: WEBSITE - METRICS .................................................................................... 14 TABLE 2: WEBSITE - MOST POPULAR CONTENT ................................................................. 17 TABLE 3: TWITTER - METRICS .................................................................................... 19 TABLE 4: SLIDESHARE - METRICS ................................................................................ 24 TABLE 5: YOUTUBE – METRICS ................................................................................... 25




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DEFINITIONS, ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS

Acronym Title

EC European Commission

DoW Description of Work

OGC Open Geospatial Consortium

SMIP Single Most Important Point

UGC User Generated Content

W3C World Wide Web Consortium




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Executive Summary

Over the last few years we have seen a significant increase in the use of Social Media content in

journalism and business communities. At the same time, more and more content is being shared via

social networks. Such content is not only shaping but also influencing the debate more than ever

(example events are the 'Brexit' campaign or the US elections of November 2016). At the same time,

awareness of related aspects, including verification of user-generated content or eyewitness media,

has never been as prominent as it is at present and in the recent past. Hardly anybody could escape

the '#Fake News’ discussions that have made headlines again and again. All this also means that

the REVEAL project was initiated and executed at the "right" time in a very favorable environment,

considering the overriding topic of verification. It furthermore resulted in REVEAL having significant

impact on the research community, as well as on industry and beyond, which is partly owed to the

situation outlined above. All this was used to the project's advantage and was integrated in the

REVEAL dissemination strategy.

In sum and as a first conclusion, the REVEAL consortium is confident to state that dissemination

work performed is considered as excellent, reaching and even exceeding initially formulated goals.

Visibility of the project was extremely high. At numerous events in which consortium partners

participated, and with a great variety of activities carried out, we reached not only a large number of

people, but – more importantly – we reached the "right" people. We established ourselves as an

authority in the ‘Verification of Social Media’ sphere.

Very close ties to a large and diverse network have been established in this reporting period as well

as throughout the whole project duration. This network includes all the targeted communities as set

out in the initial Dissemination Plan, such as the European Commission, the scientific and industrial

community, and the community at large.

The trustworthy reputation and standing that the REVEAL project has created over time is reflected,

for example, in the fact that REVEAL was approached by "First Draft News" to join its partner

network. This network includes authorities and well established players from the news industry as

well as social networks such as the New York Times, AlJazeera, BuzzfeedNews, Eurovision,

Channel 4 News, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Amnesty International, and many more. All partner

organizations are authorities in the news and information business and active in or passionate about

the field of UGC and its verification (more information here). The partnership is based on the idea

that the scale of the challenges that society faces around filtering factual information and authentic

content can only be tackled via a global collaboration of organizations working together to find

solutions.

Engagement of REVEAL’s audiences via its presence on social networks (in particular Twitter), face-

to-face discussions, organization of and representation at relevant events, an impressive list of

publications (both academic and non-academic), being featured and portrayed in influential journals,

magazines and newsletters, combined with other activities as outlined in this deliverable, clearly

supports our claim that the project has reached a rather high level in terms of information diffusion

and reputation building. We feel that we can confidently claim of being among the top influencers in

the field of Social Media verification.

The impact of the REVEAL project is tangible and diverse. At Deutsche Welle, for example, REVEAL

has led to the implementation of a training programme and specific workflows to support better

understanding of Social Media verification. Increased awareness has been brought to the business

development and strategic departments of a variety of REVEAL partners (e.g. DW and SAG). For

developer partners of solutions or components (e.g. ATC), REVEAL has led to the opening of

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numerous new business opportunities. For the scientific partners (e.g. CERTH, IT Inno, NCSR'D, Uni

Koblenz, Alcatel – now Nokia and SINTEF), REVEAL represented an ideal opportunity to closely tie

research results and activities to industry needs and requirements, also gaining respective visibility

across domains. This was accompanied well by KU Leuven investigating and publishing about

important legal aspects of relevance. Overall project coordination rested in the capable hands of

Intrasoft.

The relevance of work carried out and standing of the project is furthermore evident in the fact that

REVEAL project partners have been invited to a great variety of conferences and events that dealt

with various facets of Social Media verification. Furthermore, lots of positive feedback has been

received on the tools and components that have been developed and released by REVEAL's

technology and solution developers.

Looking back at months M18-M38 of REVEAL, the project consortium feels it has performed

dissemination on the highest level and achieved remarkable results: REVEAL is a member of the

First Draft News Partner Network; it is actively involved in the UGC verification activities of the

European Broadcasting Union's "Eurovision" network; it is a partner of the European Journalism

Centre's "News Impact Summit series" (a set of conferences that held its 17th edition in mid-

December 2016 in Amsterdam); it was featured in the trade press; numerous presentations were

delivered; at conferences very positive feedback was received on the work done; many high quality

papers have been published; and the tools and technology that have been developed as well as the

approach taken are well received.

Rounding up, it can be stated that the REVEAL dissemination activities have followed the project’s

dissemination strategy and – from the measurable results obtained – it shows that we have been

successful in that respect, too, especially with the REVEAL website, the REVEAL Twitter channel

and our publications. The impact we have been able to generate is tangible and diverse. We have

influenced the way journalists work (in particular at Deutsche Welle and other public broadcasters in

Europe), supported the case for social media's value and benefits in the business sector (in

particular at Software AG) and we have discussed and offered solutions on a European and even

global scale by REVEAL’s contributions to a variety of channels and networks and via the tools that

REVEAL has made publicly available for everyone to use.

We conclude that the project has reached all its dissemination goals and more. REVEAL will miss

being part of the international scene of Social Media verification, and it is likely that this scene will

miss REVEAL a little bit, too. Nevertheless, the excellent contacts made and cooperations formed,

as well as plans for future exploitation, will survive well into the future and well beyond the formal end

of the REVEAL project.




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1 Introduction

This deliverable presents the dissemination activities that have been carried out, the dissemination

materials that have been produced and the effects that were achieved in the course of the reporting

period from April 2015 (M18) up to the project end in December 2016 (M38). The dissemination

strategy that builds the foundation for this work can be found in deliverable "D8.2.1 – Dissemination

plan and initial set of activities".

This REVEAL dissemination deliverable is to be used by consortium members and the European

Commission in order to obtain a complete picture of the dissemination activities that have been

performed. Furthermore, dissemination activities carried out on a partner level are presented,

including participation at events and conferences, as well as publications.

The deliverable is based on the activities of all project partners, carried out both individually and

collaboratively. Information has been included up until an internal delivery deadline of 15th

December

2016, which is 16 calendar days before the deliverable is due and the formal termination of the

REVEAL project (31 December 2016). This is the final dissemination deliverable.

The reader is also referred to the REVEAL website on http://revealproject.eu which contains the

most recent status of the project. It will be kept accessible online at least as long as it is contractually

required and may include further contributions after the project is terminated officially.

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2 Dissemination activities reporting

Measuring the effects of REVEAL’s dissemination efforts is not only helpful for the project, but also

crucial in order to understand the impact of REVEAL.

In the chapters that follow the dissemination tools that are used within the REVEAL project are

described. The dissemination activities that have been carried out in the period under consideration

(months 18-38) are reported. The exact reporting period is 01 April 2015 until 30 November 2016 for

all the Social Network channels as it is impossible to report on December 2016 since this deliverable

needs to be prepared and submitted before the end of the month. We aim to include all

dissemination activities, also presentations or publications done in December 2016 as far as

possible. (If any major activitiies (especially regarding activities on the website and social media

outreach) take place in the last days of 2016 or beyond, we will include them accordingly in the final

review presentation.) Per dissemination tool/channel we describe the purpose and the status of the

tool/channel at the time of reporting. We have analyzed the reported numbers (when available) and

have drawn respective conclusions thereof (if feasible).

2.1 Website

The REVEAL website is designed as a ‘a place to return to’ with key information about the latest

developments of the project, news about verification (from tools to initiatives to the market and its

actors) as well as information about the project partners, public deliverables, publications, events,

etc. The website includes descriptions and links to tools that have been developed in the project,

research papers, presentations, videos and demos elaborating on the scenarios and research

challenges addressed by REVEAL. The REVEAL website has been the main communication tool to

disseminate news, events and achievements.

In order to make the website a place to return to with a higher frequency of content for a focused

target audience, it has been designed in a ‘magazine-like style’.

The higher frequency of publications (compared to the ‘average’ EU research project website) is

achieved by a publication schedule for the dissemination leader (DW). It was aimed to publish new

content on a frequent basis (two to four publications per month on average). To do so, DW used the

following editorial formats:

Verify This Week – weekly articles. The editorial team collects interesting information

dealing with Social Media analysis and verification issues and writes up short articles

referring to external sources, issues of interest and the like. This has already proven to

generate a wider audience (also reaching outside the EC co-funded research context) that

visits the REVEAL website. Deutsche Welle writes up these articles and is in constant

exchange with all REVEAL partners in order to incorporate their input as well.

Research Reviews – the editorial team looks at what other people / projects are doing in the

Social Media analysis and verification field and reports about it.

Activities – REVEAL partners report about activities they undertake in the project context,

i.e. report about events they attended, their development work and results, and such. This

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Project outcomes – REVEAL partners report about their achievements in the project. This

varies from research done, lessons learned to descriptions of tools that have been

developed and how to use them.

The lead for all this is in the hands of DW, but all REVEAL project partners have been encouraged to

actively contribute and publish their own articles on the website. In addition to the above, the website

also keeps our target audiences informed about REVEAL’s intermediate and final results.

Figure 1: REVEAL website

We use PIWIK (the open source alternative to Google Analytics) to measure the traffic on the

REVEAL website.

The website is linked to other Social Media dissemination channels like Twitter and SlideShare.

Crosslinking of content between platforms is done to increase the impact of each single platform.

In this reporting period (01 April 2015 until 16 December 2016 – more will follow before the final

project review) we have published:

13 Verify This Week articles

46 other articles (in reverse order, with the newest article listed first):

o REVEAL Results Vol 1: Verification tools, knowledge and code

o Pants on fire: content verification tools and other ways to deal with the fake news

problem

o With REVEAL along the way of the customer journey

http://piwik.org/

http://revealproject.eu/reveal-results-vol-1-verification-tools-knowledge-and-code/

http://revealproject.eu/pants-on-fire-content-verification-tools-and-other-ways-to-deal-with-the-fake-news-problem/

http://revealproject.eu/pants-on-fire-content-verification-tools-and-other-ways-to-deal-with-the-fake-news-problem/

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o Rules, laws, implications …

o REVEAL @ NEM Summit

o REVEAL partners with First Draft News

o REVEAL @ First Draft partner meeting and NEM Summit

o REVEAL @ Monitoring Forum Munich on 7 Dec

o Automated Multimedia Verification @ MediaEval 2016

o REVEAL Workshop Review & Resources

o Few days to go – last minute chance to join (free!) REVEAL workshop

o REVEAL workshop on 16 Sept 2016

o Observational study – how do journalists really verify UGC?

o Dealing with UGC and its ownership – Interview with DW’s Head of Social Media

News

o Online Hate Speech & Content Policing

o A roadmap to the truth

o Preview: REVEAL at DW Global Media Forum

o Predicting News Popularity by Mining Online Discussions

o Delfi revisited: The MTE & Index.hu v. Hungary case

o Automating Verification? IJF 2016

o Event time

o How to find breaking news on Twitter

o Year 2 – View & Read Some Project Highlights

o Geoparse Benchmark Open Dataset

o Best Wishes to All!

o REVEAL at EC’s Media Literacy EG Meeting

o REVEAL @ WIFS 2015

o The Deutsche Welle Image Forensics Dataset

o ICT 2015 revisited

o REVEAL @ ICT 2015

o Semi-Automated Extraction of Attributed Verification and Debunking Reports from

Social Media

o UGC in News @ Prix Italia

o Send in the Robots: Automated Journalism and its Potential Impact on Media

Pluralism

o Preview: REVEAL @ Prix Italia

o news:rewired revisited

o REVEAL @ news:rewired

o REVEAL expert seminar on the Right to be Forgotten (RTBF)

o Delfi AS vs Estonia

o REVEAL at CBMI 2015

o Meet(ing) the Verified Pixel Project

o UPDATE: Web Multimedia Verification Workshop

o REVEAL @ EBU TV Assembly

o Multimedia Forensic Investigations

o REVEAL @ Pacific Asia workshop on Intelligence and Security Informatics (PAISI)

o REVEAL @ News Impact Summit

http://revealproject.eu/rules-laws-implications/

http://revealproject.eu/reveal-nem-summit/

http://revealproject.eu/reveal-partners-with-first-draft-news/

http://revealproject.eu/reveal-first-draft-partner-meeting-and-nem-summit/

http://revealproject.eu/reveal-monitoring-forum-munich/

http://revealproject.eu/automated-multimedia-verfication-mediaeval-2016/

http://revealproject.eu/reveal-workshop-review-resources/

http://revealproject.eu/less-than-1-month-to-go-register-for-free-reveal-workshop-now/

http://revealproject.eu/reveal-workshop-on-16-sept-2016/

http://revealproject.eu/observational-study-how-do-journalists-really-verify-ugc/

http://revealproject.eu/dealing-with-ugc-and-its-ownership-interview-with-dws-head-of-social-media-news/

http://revealproject.eu/dealing-with-ugc-and-its-ownership-interview-with-dws-head-of-social-media-news/

http://revealproject.eu/online-hate-speech-content-policing/

http://revealproject.eu/a-roadmap-to-the-truth/

http://revealproject.eu/preview-reveal-at-dw-global-media-forum/

http://revealproject.eu/predicting-news-popularity-by-mining-online-discussions/

http://revealproject.eu/delfi-revisited-the-mte-index-hu-v-hungary-case/

http://revealproject.eu/automating-verification-ijf-2016/

http://revealproject.eu/event-time/

http://revealproject.eu/how-to-find-breaking-news-on-twitter/

http://revealproject.eu/year-2-view-some-of-the-highlights/

http://revealproject.eu/geoparse-benchmark-open-dataset/

http://revealproject.eu/best-wishes-to-all/

http://revealproject.eu/reveal-at-ecs-media-literacy-eg-meeting/

http://revealproject.eu/reveal-wifs-2015/

http://revealproject.eu/the-deutsche-welle-image-forensics-dataset/

http://revealproject.eu/ict-2015-revisited/

http://revealproject.eu/reveal-ict-2015/

http://revealproject.eu/semi-automated-extraction-of-attributed-verification-and-debunking-reports-from-social-media/

http://revealproject.eu/semi-automated-extraction-of-attributed-verification-and-debunking-reports-from-social-media/

http://revealproject.eu/ugc-in-news-prix-italia/

http://revealproject.eu/send-in-the-robots-automated-journalism-and-its-potential-impact-on-media-pluralism/

http://revealproject.eu/send-in-the-robots-automated-journalism-and-its-potential-impact-on-media-pluralism/

http://revealproject.eu/preview-reveal-prix-italia/

http://revealproject.eu/newsrewired-revisited-2/

http://revealproject.eu/reveal-newsrewired/

http://revealproject.eu/reveal-expert-seminar-on-right-to-be-forgotten/

http://revealproject.eu/delfi-as-vs-estonia/

http://revealproject.eu/reveal-at-cbmi-2015/

http://revealproject.eu/meeting-the-verified-pixel-project/

http://revealproject.eu/update-web-multimedia-verification-workshop/

http://revealproject.eu/reveal-ebu-tv-assembly/

http://revealproject.eu/multimedia-forensic-investigations/

http://revealproject.eu/reveal-pacific-asia-workshop-on-intelligence-and-security-informatics-paisi/

http://revealproject.eu/reveal-news-impact-summit/




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Via PIWIK we have gathered the following data analysis for the REVEAL website:

Per Month 1st period 07.10.2013 – 17.06.2014

Per Month 2nd period 18.06.2014 – 31.03.2015

Current Reporting Period

01.04.2015 – 30.11.2016

Per Month 3rd period 01.04.2015 – 30.11.2016

Page views 1350 1544

31768 1588

Visits 226 660

16314 816

Average visit duration 5min17s 2min 46s

2min 1s 2min 1s

Actions per visit 5,2 2,6

2,2 2,2

Returning visits 46% 36%

4892 (30%) 30%

Average Visit duration returning visit 7min27s 4min 34s

3min 16s 3min 16s

Countries from which the website is visited 43 58

140 140

Table 1: Website - metrics

The reporting period used is 01 April 2015 – 30 November 2016 in order to be able to report

numbers per month, the numbers of the beginning of December 2016 reflect the numbers of

November 2016.

The numbers clearly show that the website has been very well visited over this reporting period. All

target KPIs that have been determined at the start of the project have been met. In comparison to

the previous period of reporting of visits per month we have an increase of 24%.

The average visit duration went down from 2 minutes and 46 seconds to 2 minutes and 1 second

and the actions per visit went from 2,6 to 2,2 actions. This can indicate that the access channels to

the REVEAL website have become clear over time and the users know what information to find

where. The majority of visitors do not need to browse on the REVEAL website anymore to find what

they are looking for. Also the fact that articles are directly linked in Twitter brings users directly to

what they are interested in. Any other action taken on the website is a bonus. A high bounce rate

(users leaving the website from the entry page without further browsing) of around 65% for our most

popular content supports the theory that users access the REVEAL website in a very targeted way.

They read the article they have been pointed to and then move away from the website again.

For the period under consideration, there are 30% of returning visitors, which sums up to 4892 visits

for this period. That shows that we have succeeded in our strategy to make the website a place to

return to. Returning visitors are also more engaged with the website, which is indicated by the longer

average time per visit spent on the website.

In total, the website has been visited by people residing in 140 countries. Visitors do not only come

from Europe, but also from further afield. This is an indicator that both the REVEAL project and the

topic / R&D challenges are clearly of global (or general) interest. (Note: In this context, it needs to be

stated that the visitor location analysis is based on the preferred language that viewers use in their

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Figure 2: Website - visits over time

There is a clear peek in visitors visible on the 7th of June 2016. This seems to originate from a

combination of factors:

First Draft News appealed to their Twitter network to contribute to a survey that REVEAL had

published to better understand the issues around social media verification.

The ARD had just published a blog post in which they explained how they have verified

social media content around a bomb attack in Istanbul for which they used a methodology

described in the REVEAL publication ‘How to find breaking news on Twitter’.

The REVEAL consortium had a consortium meeting in Southampton and was sharing their

progress with the world via Twitter, frequently pointing to the latest articles on the REVEAL

website.

The data on unique visitors per day shows that we are reaching a professional audience that is

visiting the REVEAL website mostly during office hours. On weekends, usage of the website is

significantly lower.

Figure 3: Website - visits by day of week

The analysis of where our visitors originate concerning Social Networks shows that the REVEAL

presence is mainly found via Twitter (1266 visits). It can be concluded that the strategy to have

Twitter and the REVEAL website strengthen each other seems to work well. The amount of users

that find us via Facebook (252 visits) and LinkedIn (34 visits) are low. However, from the outset it

was our strategy to clearly concentrate resources and activities on a well-established and regular

Twitter presence, and use other Social Networks less actively, but with a more static presence.

https://twitter.com/firstdraftnews/status/739728990341103616

http://blog.tagesschau.de/?p=14148

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Figure 4: Website - access via Social Media

The visitor map shows that the REVEAL website is most frequently visited from the US and

Germany. It needs to be noted that the visitor location analysis is based on the preferred language

that viewers use in their browser. It furthermore has to be stated that a highly engaged verification

community resides in the US. The map shown below shows that REVEAL also reaches target

audiences outside the EU.

Figure 5: Website - visitor map

Apart from the numbers presented above it is interesting to see what content on the REVEAL

website is most popular. The six most visited content items are listed below. It is interesting to note

that in the final reporting period the sub-sites ‘About REVEAL’ and ‘Project Partners’ have risen in

popularity (besides our more detailed articles). This indicates a further interest in the development of

the REVEAL project.

Also the article ‘REVEAL Workshop on 16 September 2016’ is very well read. This article is

particularly interesting as it invites our target audience to the final REVEAL workshop where we have

presented multiple tools resulting from the project. These tools were listed in the article ‘REVEAL

Workshop Review & Resources’ which was read a total of 456 times.

In the first phase of dissemination, we have created a large user base of the website and general

awareness for the topic of verification and the verification landscape in general, for example with the

‘Verify This Week’ articles.

In the second phase of dissemination activities the aim was to engage our users more and present

project results as well as discuss issues of topical interest. Both detailed articles with a focus on

hands on implementation of verification processes and more generic articles as well as public

deliverables were published. In this phase we also moved away from the ‘Verify this Week’ format

because First Draft News emerged as the biggest hub for Social Media verification knowledge

sharing. REVEAL managed to turn this development around and publish an article on the First Draft

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News website and support each other’s work on Twitter. REVEAL also became member of the First

Draft News Partner Network.

In the third phase of dissemination activities REVEAL managed to really engage with its audiences,

for example via ‘calls for action’ via the website and Twitter, and share hands on working processes

for dealing with UGC and tools that journalists can instantly use in their daily workflow.

The popularity of the articles confirms the effectiveness of the dissemination phases that we use as

guidelines for the dissemination activities of REVEAL. We have clearly shaped and exploited phase

3 – Impact. For further details see the table below (reporting period from 01 April 2015 until 30

November 2016).

Article Page views

1 REVEAL | About REVEAL 1217

2 REVEAL | Project Partners 1156

3 REVEAL | REVEAL Workshop on 16 September 2016 1143

4 REVEAL | News 907

5 REVEAL | How To Find Breaking News On Twitter 856

6 REVEAL | Publications 685

Table 2: Website - most popular content

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2.2 Twitter

Twitter is extremely useful to inform and engage with our target audiences and their respective

communities. Being part of the right communities has proven to be crucial for dissemination via

Social Media platforms. Information about the latest updates on the website, new events,

discussions and news about the verification sphere (tools, initiatives, projects, services, strategies,

players etc.) have regularly – almost on a daily basis - been provided via Twitter.

Via Twitter it is also easy for our followers to engage with the REVEAL project, either by following,

mentioning, retweeting or commenting on our tweets or by following up our calls to action and

contribute to questionnaires, test prototypes and give feedback on the work done.

Figure 6: REVEAL Twitter channel




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Via Twitonomy the following data analysis for the REVEAL Twitter channel has been gathered:

Reporting period

1st period

21.11.2013 – 17.06.2014

2nd

period 21.11.2013 – 31.03.2015

Current period 21.11.2013 – 14.12.2016

Tweets 107 1268 3158

Followers 101 361 975

Retweets of our tweets 46 (43%) 262 (21%) 857 (27%)

Retweets of our retweeted tweets

1

120 (score = 2.63) 677 (score = 2.58) 2711 (score = 3.16)

Mentions2 64 (score = 0.6) 543 (score = 0.43) 1620 (score = 0.51)

Favorited tweets 28 (26%) 216 (17%) 785 (25%)

Table 3: Twitter - metrics

Looking at the above data we can conclude the following: After 38 months we have a follower base

on Twitter of 975 account holders. This follower base is interested in what we have to say (indicating

that we have achieved becoming an authority), which can be derived from the percentage of

retweets: 27% of our tweets are being retweeted. Then, the follower base of our followers have

retweeted those tweets a total of 2711 times. This implies a factor 3.16 to the amount of retweets.

We have been mentioned 1620 times and 785 (25%) of our tweets have been “favourited”, indicating

the relevance of what we have to say and the engagement with our audience. All of this gives us a

potential reach of 2.038.126 views (total aggregate number of followers of the people who mentioned

@REVEALEU).

The number of followers, retweets and mentions have increased every year indicating that Twitter

was precisely the right Social Media channel for the REVEAL project to engage with its audience.

The numbers are excellent indicating that our audience has been able to find us and our work and

values our contribution to the challenges that the media industry faces relating to trust and truth in

the digital age.

All initially set targeted KPIs have been reached. What needs to be mentioned specifically is that a

follower base of around 1,000 for an EU-funded research project can be considered very

satisfactory.

1 Average number of retweets for REVEAL tweets by others. The higher this number, the more the user is considered a

valuable source of information by others.

2 Average number of favorites for REVEAL favourited by others. The higher this number, the more the user is considered a

valuable source of information by others.

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Figure 7: Twitter - Tweets most retweeted

Apart from having 975 followers it is most interesting to see who these followers are, and whether

they belong to our target audience, meaning influencers whom we have been trying to reach. Below,

we present an overview of REVEAL’s most influential followers (those who have the most followers

themselves). This overview shows that there is a valuable mix of many of our target audiences;

journalists, people working for the European Commission, Social Media managers, computer

scientists and authorities / experts on the topic Social Media Verification (e.g. people like Mark Little,

Henk van Ess and Craig Silverman). It is also interesting to notice that the REVEAL project is

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Figure 8: Twitter - most influential followers

The REVEAL Twitter channel has proven to be very efficient to engage with our audiences. Below

we present a small selection of tweets of which we are particularly proud. They give a flavor of what

we got up to and illustrate the engagement with top influencers among our target audience.




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Figure 9: Tweets showing engagement with diverse REVEAL target audiences




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Figure 10: Tweets showing impact with diverse REVEAL target audiences

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2.3 SlideShare / Presentation Channels

Presentations used for public appearances are made available via the REVEAL SlideShare account

and / or the REVEAL website. It is aimed to give the viewer a deeper insight into the project and the

individual aspects of it. Over this reporting period (01 April 2015 - 13 December 2016) we have

published 13 new presentations on the REVEAL SlideShare channel:

Presentation Views

Geoparsing and Real-time Social Media Analytics - technical and social challenges 82

Veracity & Velocity of Social Media Content during Breaking News 262

REVEAL Project - Trust and Credibility Analysis 359

"Extracting Attributed Verification and Debunking Reports from Social Media: MediaEval-2015 Trust and Credibility Analysis of Image and Video"

299

Prix Italia 2015 - Verification in Social Newsgathering 254

Verification of UGC/Eyewitness Media: Challenges and Approaches 385

Web image size prediction for efficient focused image crawling 619

News-oriented multimedia search over multiple social networks 395

WWW2015 - RDSM2015 Workshop - Trust and Credibility Analysis 643

Geotagging Social Media Content with a Refined Language Modelling Approach 403

Mediarevealr: A social multimedia monitoring and intelligence system for Web multimedia verication

593

Cross-Media Konferenz "Think Cross - Change Media" in Magdeburg, Germany 530

News Impact Summit - Verification, Investigation and Digital Ethics – Hamburg, Germany

357

Table 4: SlideShare - metrics

These presentations are about work done in the REVEAL project and are either published on or

linked to from the REVEAL SlideShare channel. All KPIs for SlideShare (see page 22 of D8.2.1)

have been met.

2.4 YouTube / Video Productions

The REVEAL YouTube channel already contains ten videos in total. In this reporting period (01 April

2015 - 30 November 2016) four more videos have been published by or about REVEAL. To date (15

December 2016), all videos combined have been viewed 1749 times in total.

http://www.slideshare.net/revealeu

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Via YouTube we have gathered the following data for the REVEAL YouTube channel:

Video Views

Observational study - how do journalists really verify user generated content? 107

REVEAL | Year 2 84

The #UGCxperiment | EBU SkillsXchange 141

Jochen Spangenberg: Sourcing and verifying stories on social media 115

IRSS 2014 Overview 345

Interview | REVEAL @ NewsXchange 128

REVEAL Team @WWW'14 | SNOW workshop 41

Interview with Jeff Jarvis on Social Media in Journalism 558

EC co-funded project REVEAL 230

Table 5: YouTube metrics

A highlight that needs to be specifically mentioned should be that we had the opportunity to do a

video interview with Jeff Jarvis (author of ‘What Would Google Do?’ and the blog buzzmachine,

professor at City University of New York and a journalist) on the topic “Social Media in journalism” at

the Global Media Forum 2014 in Bonn.

The last video produced is an explainer piece about the observational study that was done by IT Inno

at Deutsche Welle in order to get better insight into the daily verification processes of journalists.

Figure 11: YouTube – Observational study video

https://twitter.com/jeffjarvis

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2.5 Dissemination Events

An important part of the dissemination activities has been to participate in national and international

events such as conferences, trade fairs, workshops, summer schools and the like.

The following list is an overview of presentations and participations of the consortium or individual

participants in the context of REVEAL from 01 April 2015 until 15 December 2016.

Scheduled for 5 January 2017 (taking place outside the REVEAL timeframe): Symeon

Papadopoulos (on behalf of CERTH) will present the REVEAL Disturbing Image Detector in

a Demo session at the MMM2017, Reykjavik, Iceland. The demonstration will showcase the

tool functionalities and application potential both as a stand-alone tool and as an integrated

REVEAL component.

13 December 2016: Jochen Spangenberg attended the last News Impact Summit of 2016,

organised by the European Journalism Centre and supported by Google News Lab, held in

Amsterdam. The day's topic: "Emotions and Digital Storytelling." REVEAL has been

a partner of the conference series since March 2015.

12 December 2016: Jun Sun of Uni Koblenz attended a workshop at the ICDM2016

conference (IEEE International Conference on Data Mining) and presented the use case of

network user-role analysis in REVEAL and its underlying techniques.

7 December 2016: REVEAL was represented at the Monitoring Forum 2016 in Munich,

Germany, with an information booth. The REVEAL partner Software AG was there to

showcase the REVEAL enterprise application and get in contact with Social Media and

community managers, analysts, strategists, and influencers.

23-24 November 2016: REVEAL was represented at the NEM Summit 2016 in Porto,

Portugal, with an information booth. The stand was staffed by Nikos Sarris of ATC and

Jochen Spangenberg of DW. At times, Petter Bae Brandtzæg of Sintef and Paul Walland of

ITInnovation also joined in. They showcased project results and engaged with attendees of

the summit and NEM Initiative members.

26 October 2016: demonstration of REVEAL and TruthNest in the SciFy Academy Open

Data in Athens. By Nikos Sarris (ATC). Presentation photos and video (in Greek)

available here.

20-21 October 2016: Verifying Multimedia Use Task @ MediaEval 2016, Hilversum,

Netherlands. A REVEAL team including Stuart E. Middleton (ITINNO) and Christina Boididou

and Giorgos Kordopatis-Zilos (CERTH) competed in automated verification tasks. More

information here.

20 October 2016: presentation of geotagging approach on the related MediaEval Placing

Task @ MediaEval 2016, Hilversum, Netherlands. By Giorgos Kordopatis-Zilos (CERTH).

Presentation available here.

16 October 2016: presentation of In-depth Exploration of Geotagging Performance,

Amsterdam, Netherlands. By Symeon Papadopoulos (CERTH). Presentation available here.

http://mmm2017.ru.is/

https://newsimpact.io/

http://ejc.net/

https://newslab.withgoogle.com/

https://newsimpact.io/partners

http://icdm2016.eurecat.org/

http://icdm2016.eurecat.org/

http://www.monitoring-forum.de/

http://nem-initiative.org/nem-summit/

https://nem-initiative.org/

http://www.scify.gr/site/el/scify-academy/past-academies/150-past-academies/423-14th-scify-academy-anoixta-dedomena-tora

http://www.multimediaeval.org/mediaeval2016/



http://www.slideshare.net/sympapadopoulos/placing-images-with-refined-language-models-and-similarity-search-with-pcareduced-vgg-features

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11 October 2016: UK ESRC seminar series – Microenterprise, technology and big data

Southampton, UK. Stuart E. Middleton (ITINNO) presented the REVEAL project to the UK

social science research community. Presentation available here.

26-27 September 2016: ICT Proposers Day in Bratislava, Slovenia. Nikos Sarris (ATC) and

Jochen Spangenberg (DW) attended and discussed sustainable use and exploitation

possibilities of REVEAL project outcomes.

16 September 2016: REVEAL Social Media Verification Workshop 2016 in Athens, Greece.

This was the big and ultimate REVEAL workshop. It included two keynote speeches (one by

Sam Dubberley of Eyewitness Media Hub, one by Dhruti Shah of the BBC) and

presentations by the REVEAL, InVID and Pheme projects, knowledge sharing and demos of

results of the three projects.

12-14 September 2016: “Social Media Verification Challenges, Approaches and

Applications”, keynote speech by Yiannis Kompatsiaris on the 3rd Internet Science

conference. Florence, Italy.

5-8 September 2016: Konstantinos Bougiatiotis presented the work on “Author Profiling

using Complementary Second Order Attributes and Stylometric Features”, at CLEF 2016

(Conference and Labs of the Evaluation forum). Évora, Portugal.

5 September 2016: Presentation by Jochen Spangenberg (DW) entitled “Handling the Truth:

UGC Data in News. Benefits & Challenges” at First International SoBigData Workshop, in

conjunction with TPDL 2016 conference. Hanover, Germany.

27-29 June 2016: Jochen Spangenberg represented REVEAL at the Second European

Media & Information Literacy Forum in Riga, Latvia. The event was organised by UNESCO

in co-operation with the European Commission. Jochen participated on a panel and gave a

presentation, outlining practices and challenges regarding verification of eyewitness media.

Here’s the agenda.

20-22 June 2016: REVEAL was presented at the International Conference on Distributed

and Event-Based Systems (DEBS), a conference attended by experts worldwide in the area

of event processing in big data, complex event processing, middleware infrastructures, and

applications. Christos Vlassopoulos form NCSR “Demokritos” presented work on detecting

the top active posts and the most popular comments in a streaming social network medium,

with on-line algorithms.

13-15 June 2016: REVEAL was presented at Deutsche Welle’s Global Media Forum, an

event attended by more than 2,000 people from all over the world. Representatives from DW

and ATC held a number of hands-on workshops in a dedicated area that was accessible

throughout this prestigious 3-day event. REVEAL was represented by Nikos Sarris (ATC)

and Julia Bayer, Ruben Bouwmeester and Jochen Spangenberg (all of DW). Aditionally,

Jochen Spangenberg spoke on a panel entitled “Fact and fancy – how verification can

protect our news.” This took place on Monday, 13 June 2016.

6-9 June 2016: REVEAL was presented by Yiannis Kompatsiaris at the International

Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR), a conference attended by more than 100

experts worldwide in the area of multimedia analysis and retrieval. Yiannis demonstrated a

system for Multimodal Event Detection and Summarization in Large Scale Image Collections

in a dedicated demo session.

http://www.slideshare.net/revealeu/geoparsing-and-realtime-social-media-analytics-technical-and-social-challenges

https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/ict-proposers-day-2016


http://www.slideshare.net/kompats/social-media-verification-challenges-approaches-and-applications

http://www.slideshare.net/kompats/social-media-verification-challenges-approaches-and-applications

http://insci2016.complexworld.net/

http://insci2016.complexworld.net/

http://clef2016.clef-initiative.eu/

http://www.sobigdata.eu/events/1st-international-sobigdata-workshop

http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/media-development/media-literacy/global-alliance-for-partnerships-on-media-and-information-literacy/second-european-media-and-information-literacy-forum/

http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/media-development/media-literacy/global-alliance-for-partnerships-on-media-and-information-literacy/second-european-media-and-information-literacy-forum/

http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CI/CI/pdf/Events/mil2016_latvia_forum_programme.pdf

http://www.ics.uci.edu/~debs2016/index.html

http://www.ics.uci.edu/~debs2016/index.html

http://www.dw.com/en/global-media-forum/global-media-forum/s-101219

http://www.dw.com/en/fact-and-fancy-how-verification-can-protect-our-news/a-19197673

http://www.dw.com/en/fact-and-fancy-how-verification-can-protect-our-news/a-19197673

http://www.icmr2016.com/

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17 May 2016: Markos Zampoglou spoke at the “Social Media in the Newsroom (SMNews)”

Workshop, in the context of the ICWSM 2016 conference in Cologne, Germany. His talk was

entitled “Web and Social Media Image Forensics for News Professionals”. It included

presenting recent progress on the REVEAL Media Verification Assistant service. The

presentation was delivered to an audience of experts from the fields of computer science,

social media analytics, and journalism.

6 May 2016: Jochen Spangenberg spoke at the EU-SEA Big Data Summit. While his talk on

6 May was on the topic “Big Data in Media: Focus on Journalism and News”, preceding the

two-day conference, he hosted a verification session and presented to an audience of about

180 people from the media and telco industry on 4 May.

12 April 2016: three REVEAL papers were accepted for presentation at SNOW 2016, a one-

day workshop that took place in Montreal, Canada. The workshop was held in conjunction

with the 25th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2016). Abstracts of the

REVEAL papers can be found on the workshop website.

7 April 2016: Deutsche Welle’s Jochen Spangenberg spoke on a panel at the International

Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy. The topic: how can technology support journalists with

verification. Session title: Automating verification: how far can we go? There’s a video of the

entire session available, plus a blog post on the REVEAL home page.

16 March 2016: Nikos Sarris of ATC and Irene Matzakou of INTRASOFT presented

REVEAL at the EC’s Info Day on Media and Content Convergence in Brussels. There was

also a REVEAL poster session, and attendees used the opportunity to discuss the current

state of affairs of the REVEAL applications with Nikos and Irene.

16-18 March 2016: Marc Dorchain and Gabi Strobel of SAG presented REVEAL at the 2016

CeBIT in Hanover. They answered questions of an interested audience and showcased

SAG’s REVEAL work. SAG had stand C11 in Hall 4 (More information about SAG’s CeBIT

presence can be found here).

4 March 2016: Linda Rath-Wiggins and Jochen Spangenberg attended the Crossmedia Day

2016 in Leipzig, Germany. They showcased the prototype and concept of the REVEAL

journalism application, and discussed verification issues and challenges all day with a

journalism-centric audience.

1 December 2015: Jochen Spangenberg of DW participated and presented at the Media

Literacy Expert Group Meeting of the European Commission, Directorate-General for

Communications Networks, Content and Technology, in Brussels. More information about

the day, speakers and topics can be found on the event website.

16 November 2015: Markos Zampoglou of CERTH-ITI talked about Social Media

Verification at the Thematic Meeting “Multimedia Truthfulness Verification in Legal

Environment and Social Media”, colocated with WIFS 2015, in Rome, Italy. At the same

event, DW’s Jochen Spangenberg gave a presentation about the relevance of Social Media

for the news business. The audience consisted of academics, legal experts and industry

representatives. For more information see the meeting’s homepage.

20-22 October 2015: REVEAL was represented at the ICT 2015 in Lisbon, Portugal, with its

own stand.

http://newslab.insight-centre.org/smnews16/

http://newslab.insight-centre.org/smnews16/

http://www.icwsm.org/2016/index.php

https://www.facebook.com/euseabigdatasummit/

http://www.snow-workshop.org/2016/accepted-papers-2/

http://www.snow-workshop.org/2016/

http://www2016.ca/

http://www.snow-workshop.org/2016/accepted-papers-2016/

http://www.journalismfestival.com/

http://www.journalismfestival.com/

http://www.journalismfestival.com/programme/2016/automating-verification-how-far-can-we-go

https://youtu.be/3KyhvNXuDKY

https://youtu.be/3KyhvNXuDKY

http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en/news/ict19-2017-media-and-content-convergence-info-day

http://www.cebit.de/home

http://www.softwareag.com/corporate/community/uni/events/cebit/

http://www.netzwerk-medien-trainer.de/4-crossmedia-tag-programm-2/

http://www.netzwerk-medien-trainer.de/4-crossmedia-tag-programm-2/

http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/media-literacy

http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/media-literacy

http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/news/meeting-media-literacy-expert-group

http://www.wifs2015.org/

http://www.wifs2015.org/thematic_meeting.html

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21 September 2015: REVEAL’s / DW’s Jochen Spangenberg participated in a 3-hour panel

discussion at Prix Italia entitled News and User Generated Content. Jochen also gave a

presentation on the topic of UGC verification. Also on the panel: Malachy Browne of

Reported.ly; Anne-Marie Lupu-Morel of the EBU; Julien Pain of France 24; Adam Rendle of

Taylor Wessing; and Dhruti Shah of the BBC. The session was moderated by Jenni Sargent

of EyewitnessMediaHub / First Draft News and Tom Trewinnard of Checkdesk / Meedan.

18 July 2015: REVEAL was presented at the Global Communication Association’s Annual

Conference GCA2015 in Berlin by Jochen Spangenberg (DW), who gave a talk there entitled

User-generated Content and its Implications for Journalism – Focus Verification.

16 July 2015: Jochen Spangenberg of Deutsche Welle presented REVEAL and issues of

verification of eyewitness media at news:rewired in London. This was followed by a panel

discussion with Dhruti Shah of BBCNews / BBC_HaveYourSay and James Neufeld of

SAMdesk. The session’s title: “Sourcing stories on social media.” You can view Jochen’s

slides and listen to an on-demand audio of his speech on the news:rewired website.

29 June 2015: REVEAL carried out a workshop entitled “Web Multimedia Verification” at the

ICME 2015 conference in Torino, Italy. It was jointly organized with the co-funded research

projects MAVEN and REWIND (now completed). In addition to the workshop coordination,

REVEAL was represented with a keynote speech by Jochen Spangenberg, Deutsche Welle

entitled User Generated Content and its Implications for Journalism – Focus on Verification

and a paper presentation entitled Detecting Image Splicing in the Wild, by Markos

Zampoglou of CERTH-ITI. Further details can be found on the workshop website.

10-12 June 2015: Katerina Andreadou of CERTH presented REVEAL at CBMI 2015 in

Prague. She delivered two presentations. Both are available online: Web image size

prediction for efficient focused image crawling & News-oriented multimedia search over

multiple social networks

8-11 June 2015: Symeon Papadopoulos of CERTH presented REVEAL at ICCSS in

Helsinki. The presentation can be accessed here: Learning to Classify Users in Online

Interaction Networks

3 June 2015: Presentation by Jochen Spangenberg (DW) at EUROVISION’s 21st TV

Assembly, operated by EBU, hosted by BBC North in Salford, UK. A summary can be found

here.

13 May 2015: REVEAL was presented at the PAISI workshop, co-located with PA-KDD

2015 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The presentation by Symeon Papadopoulos of CERTH

on a “Social multimedia monitoring and intelligence system for Web multimedia verification”

can be found here. His other presentation was entitled “Geotagging Social Media Content

with a Refined Language Modelling Approach” and is also available online.

Please note: in the list above, we did not list presentations or appearances that were made in

conjunction with a publication. In other words: the publications listed in chapter 2.6 Papers &

Publications below were often accompanied by a respective presentation. If that was the case,

the presentation accompanying a publication listed in chapter 2.6 is not listed again in this

chapter.

http://www.prixitalia.rai.it/2015/Lists.aspx?section=blog&lang=eng

http://gca2015.com/

http://gca2015.com/

https://twitter.com/dhrutishah

https://twitter.com/BBCNews

https://twitter.com/BBC_HaveYourSay

https://twitter.com/jamesaneufeld

http://samdesk.io/

https://www.newsrewired.com/2015/07/20/slides-and-audio-sourcing-stories-on-social-media/

http://www.icme2015.ieee-icme.org/index.php

http://www.maven-project.eu/

http://www.rewindproject.eu/

https://sites.google.com/site/wemuv2015/

http://siret.ms.mff.cuni.cz/cbmi2015/

http://www.slideshare.net/revealeu/web-image-size-prediction-for-efficient-focused-image-crawling

http://www.slideshare.net/revealeu/web-image-size-prediction-for-efficient-focused-image-crawling

http://www.slideshare.net/revealeu/multi-osnmediasearch

http://www.slideshare.net/revealeu/multi-osnmediasearch

http://www.iccss2015.eu/

http://www.iccss2015.eu/

http://de.slideshare.net/sympapadopoulos/learning-to-classify-users-in-online-interaction-networks

http://de.slideshare.net/sympapadopoulos/learning-to-classify-users-in-online-interaction-networks

http://www3.ebu.ch/contents/events/2015/06/21st-eurovision-tv-assembly.html

http://www3.ebu.ch/contents/events/2015/06/21st-eurovision-tv-assembly.html

http://revealproject.eu/reveal-ebu-tv-assembly/

http://de.slideshare.net/revealeu/mediarevealr-a-social-multimedia-monitoring-and-intelligence-system-for-web-multimedia-verication

http://de.slideshare.net/sympapadopoulos/reveal-geotagging

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Figure 12: Impressions of the REVEAL final workshop in Athens. Images by Jochen Spangenberg.

Figure 13: Impressions of multiple events where REVEAL was presented

2.6 Papers & Publications

Project results are being collected and processed continuously as achievements are made, in order

to present them properly to the scientific community as well as to the general public. An important

way to pass on what is being achieved in and with REVEAL is via means of publications.

All papers and other publications (e.g. book chapters, company magazines) that are produced in the

project’s lifetime have been listed on the REVEAL website (if possible from a legal/copyright

perspective, they will also be made accessible from there). For the whole project period this resulted

in a total of 64 scientific papers and publications.

2.6.1 Scientific papers and publications

The following scientific papers and publications have been produced in this reporting period (M18-

38):

“Assessing Trustworthiness in Social Networks using Run-Time Event Recognition.”

By Christos Vlassopoulos, Alexander Artikis and Georgios Paliouras. Proceedings of

International Workshop on Mining Actionable Insights from Social Netwoks. 6-10 February

2017, Cambridge, UK.

“A web-based service for disturbing image detection.” By Markos Zampoglou, Symeon

Papadopoulos, Yiannis Kompatsiaris and Jochen Spangenberg. Accepted conference paper

for MMM2017, the 23rd International Conference on Multimedia Modeling. 4-6 January

2017, Reykjavik, Iceland. Publication forthcoming (the submitted version is available here).

http://revealproject.eu/publications/

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“Short Guide to Gamification Findings of the REVEAL Project and Practical

Application in Enterprise Online Communities.” By Dorchain, Marc, Strobel, Gabriele

and Scheid, Martin. December 2016. Available at SSRN here.

“Trust and Distrust in Online Fact-Checking Services.” By Brandtzaeg, P.B., & Følstad,

A. (Accepted for publication). Communications of the ACM. 2016.

“Verifying Multimedia Use at MediaEval 2016.″ By Boididou, C., Middleton, S.E.,

Papadopoulos, S., Dang-Nguyen, D.T., Riegler, M., Boato, G., Petlund, A., Kompatsiaris, Y.,

MediaEval 2016 workshop, Hilversum, Netherlands, October 2016.

“The VMU Participation @ Verifying Multimedia Use 2016.” By Boididou, C.

Papadopoulos, S. Middleton, S.E. Nguyen, D.T.D. Riegler, M. Petlund, A. Kompatsiaris,

Y. MediaEval 2016 workshop, Hilversum, Netherlands, October 2016.

“Placing Images with Refined Language Models and Similarity Search with PCA-

reduced VGG Features.” By Kordopatis-Zilos, G., Popescu, A., Papadopoulos, S.

Kompatsiaris, Y., MediaEval 2016 workshop, Hilversum, Netherlands, October 2016.

“In-depth Exploration of Geotagging Performance using Sampling Strategies on

YFCC100M” By Kordopatis-Zilos, G., Papadopoulos, S., Kompatsiaris, Y., Proceedings of

the 2016 ACM Workshop on Multimedia COMMONS, pp. 3-10, ACM, New York, NY.

“Did the Romans get it right? What Delfi, Google, eBay, and UPC TeleKabel Wien have

in common.” By P. Valcke, A. Kuczerawy, PJ Ombelet. Chapter in Taddeo,

Mariarosaria, Floridi, Luciano (Eds.): The Responsibilities of Online Service Providers,

Springer International Publishing 2017 (forthcoming). Already available on SSRN here.

“Supervising Automated Journalists in the Newsroom: Liability for Algorithmically

Produced News Stories.” By PJ. Ombelet, A. Kuczerawy, P. Valcke, Forthcoming in Revue

du Droit des Technologies de l’Information (Fall 2016). Available here.

“Predicting User Roles in Social Networks using Transfer Learning with Feature

Transformation”. By Sun, J., Kunegis, J., & Staab, S. (2016). Accepted paper of the ICDM

International Workshop on Data Mining in Networks in Barcelona, 12 December 2016.

“Young journalists and networked individualism: Time collapse among younger

journalists in social media.” By Brandtzaeg, P.B., & Chaparro Domínguez, M, A..

Accepted paper of ECREA the 6th European Communication Conference, Prague, 9-12

November 2016.

“Social media users’ perception of the trustworthiness and usefulness of online fact-

checking services.” By Brandtzaeg, P.B., & Følstad, A. (2016). Accepted paper of the

International Symposium on Media Innovations in Oslo, 13-14 October 2016.

“Author Profiling using Complementary Second Order Attributes and Stylometric

Features.” By Konstantinos Bougiatiotis and Anastasia Krithara. Working Notes of CLEF

2016 – Conference and Labs of the Evaluation forum. Évora, Portugal, 5-8 September

2016. Full version available here.

“Towards Dynamic Classification Completeness in Twitter.” By Dimitrios Milioris. IEEE

European Signal Processing Conference, Aug 2016, Budapest, Hungary. Paper available

here.

https://ssrn.com/abstract=2869679




http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2839213


http://damnet.reading.ac.uk/

http://www.ecrea2016prague.eu/

http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/research/center/media-innovations/symposium/2016%20Symposium/



http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1609/16090836.pdf

http://www.eurasip.org/Proceedings/Eusipco/Eusipco2016/papers/1570251442.pdf




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“An exploratory analysis of news trends on twitter.” By Konstantinos Bougiatiotis,

Anastasia Krithara, Georgios Paliouras and George Giannakopoulos. In Natural Language

Processing meets Journalism Workshop, International Joint Conference on Artificial

Intelligence 2016. USA, New York City, 10 July 2016.

“Unsupervised Classification in Twitter based on Joint Complexity.” By Dániel Kondor,

Dimitrios Milioris. International Conference on Computational Social Science (ICCSS), June

2016, Chicago, USA. Paper available here.

“Topic Detection Completeness in Twitter: Is it Possible?” By Dimitrios Milioris, Dániel

Kondor. International Conference on Computational Social Science (ICCSS), June 2016,

Chicago, USA. Paper available here.

“Emerging journalistic verification practices concerning social media.” By Brandtzaeg,

P.B., Lüders, M., Spangenberg, J., Rath-Wiggins, L., & Følstad, A. Journalism Practice

(2016). 10(3), 323-342. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2015.1020331. Open access

version available here. (An online version was first published in 2015)

“Online Learning of Event Definitions.” By Nikos Katzouris, Alexander Artikis and

Georgios Paliouras. In Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP), special issue for

the 32nd International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2016), New York City, USA.

Accepted Paper available here.

“A Large-Scale Evaluation of Splicing Localization Algorithms for Web Images.” By M.

Zampoglou, S. Papadopoulos and Y. Kompatsiaris. In: Multimedia Tools and Applications

(special issue on Recent Advances in Multimedia Security: Biometrics & Forensics).

Accompanying code available here.

“Predicting News Popularity by Mining Online Discussions.” By Georgios Rizos,

Symeon Papadopoulos, and Yiannis Kompatsiaris. In Proceedings of the 25th International

Conference Companion on World Wide Web (WWW ’16 Companion). 2016. International

World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee, Republic and Canton of Geneva,

Switzerland, 737-742. Paper available here.

“Veracity and Velocity of Social Media Content during Breaking News: Analysis of

November 2015 Paris Shootings.” By Wiegand, S. Middleton, S.E.. Third Workshop on

Social News On the Web (SNOW-2016), WWW 2016, Companion of the 25th International

World Wide Web Conference (2016). Paper available here.

“Geoparsing and Geosemantics for Social Media: Spatio-Temporal Grounding of

Content Propagating Rumours to support Trust and Veracity Analysis during

Breaking News.” By S. Middleton and V Krivcovs. ACM Transactions on Information

Systems, (TOIS) – Special Issue on Trust and Veracity of Information in Social Media.

Volume 34, Issue 3, May 2016. 26 pages. DOI=10.1145/2842604. Paper available here. It

can also be downloaded for free here.

“Overview of the Special Issue on Trust and Veracity of Information in Social Media.”

By Symeon Papadopoulos, Kalina Bontcheva, Eva Jaho, Mihai Lupu, and Carlos Castillo.

ACM Trans. Inf. Syst. 34, 3, Article 14 (April 2016). Paper available here.

http://nlpj2016.fbk.eu/accepted-papers

http://nlpj2016.fbk.eu/accepted-papers

https://hal-polytechnique.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01299629

https://hal-polytechnique.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01299630

http://opensample.info/emerging-journalistic-verification-practices-concerning-social-media

http://opensample.info/emerging-journalistic-verification-practices-concerning-social-media

http://arxiv.org/abs/1608.00100

https://github.com/MKLab-ITI/image-forensics/tree/master/matlab_toolbox

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2890096

http://www.snow-workshop.org/2017/blog/2016/02/29/veracity-and-velocity-of-social-media-content-during-breaking-news-analysis-of-november-2015-paris-shootings/


http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/390820/





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“Classification Encryption via Compressed Permuted Measurement

Matrices.” By Dimitrios Milioris. IEEE International Workshop on Security and Privacy in Big

Data (BigSecurity), INFOCOM, April 2016, San Francisco, USA. Paper available here.

“Image Forensics on the Web and Social Media for News Professionals.” By M.

Zampoglou, S. Papadopoulos, Y. Kompatsiaris, R. Bouwmeester, J. Spangenberg. In

Proceedings of SMNews at ICWSM 2016. Paper available here.

“LiveRank: How to Refresh Old Datasets.” The Dang Huynh, Fabien Mathieu, Laurent

Viennot. Internet Mathematics, Taylor & Francis, 2015. <DOI:

10.1080/15427951.2015.1098756>. Paper available here.

“Multimodal Graph-based Event Detection and Summarization in Social Media

Streams.” By M. Schinas, S. Papadopoulos, G. Petkos, Y. Kompatsiaris, P. Mitkas. In

Proceedings of ACM Multimedia 2015. Paper available here.

“Media REVEALr: A social multimedia monitoring and intelligence system for Web

multimedia verification.” By K. Andreadou, S. Papadopoulos, L. Apostolidis, A. Krithara, Y.

Kompatsiaris. In Proceedings of PA-KDD workshop PAISI 2015. Paper available here.

Slides available here.

“Geotagging Social Media Content with a Refined Language Modelling Approach.” By

G. Kordopatis-Zilos, S. Papadopoulos, Y. Kompatsiaris. In Proceedings of PA-KDD

workshop PAISI 2015 . Paper available here. Slides available here.

“Visual Event Summarization on Social Media using Topic Modelling and Graph-

based Ranking Algorithms.” By E. Schinas, S. Papadopoulos, Y. Kompatsiaris, P.

Mitkas. In Proceedings of ICMR 2015. Paper available here.

“Web image size prediction for efficient focused image crawling.” In Proceedings of

CBMI 2015. By K. Andreadou, S. Papadopoulos, Y. Kompatsiaris. Paper available here.

Slides available. More information in a blog post here.

“News-oriented multimedia search over multiple social networks.” In Proceedings of

CBMI 2015. By K. Iliakopoulou, S. Papadopoulos, Y. Kompatsiaris. Paper available here.


“CERTH/CEA LIST at MediaEval Placing Task 2015.″ By G. Kordopatis-Zilos, A. Popescu,

S. Papadopoulos, Y. Kompatsiaris. In Proceedings of MediaEval 2015. Paper available here.


“The CERTH-UNITN Participation @ Verifying Multimedia Use 2015.″ By C. Boididou, S.

Papadopoulos, D.-T. Dang-Nguyen, G. Boato, Y. Kompatsiaris. In Proceedings of MediaEval

2015. Paper available here.

“Detecting image splicing in the wild Web.” By M. Zampoglou, S. Papadopoulos, Y.

Kompatsiaris. In Proceedings of ICME 2015 Workshop on Web Multimedia Verification

(WeMuV 2015). Paper available here. Slides available here.

“Verifying Multimedia Use at MediaEval 2015.″ By C. Boididou, K. Andreadou, S.

Papadopoulos, D.-T. Dang-Nguyen, G. Boato, M. Riegler, Y. Kompatsiaris. In Proceedings

of MediaEval 2015.

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7562124/

http://revealproject.eu/wp-content/uploads/SMNewsCERTH_DW_2-2.pdf

https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01251552/document


http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-18455-5_1


http://www.slideshare.net/sympapadopoulos/mediarevealr


http://www.slideshare.net/sympapadopoulos/reveal-geotagging


http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=7153609

http://blog.commoncrawl.org/2015/08/web-image-size-prediction-for-efficient-focused-image-crawling/


http://www.slideshare.net/sympapadopoulos/newsoriented-multimedia-search-over-multiple-social-networks

http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1436/Paper58.pdf

http://www.slideshare.net/sympapadopoulos/certhcea-list-at-mediaeval-placing-task-2015

http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1436/Paper56.pdf


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“Extracting Attributed Verification and Debunking Reports from Social Media: MediaEval-

2015 Trust and Credibility Analysis of Image and Video.” By Stuart E. Middleton. A

presentation and a paper published as part of the MediaEval-2015 challenge in Wurzen,

Germany.

“The Evolving Role of the Individual Under EU Data Protection Law.” By Brendan Van

Alsenoy. Published in ICRI Research Paper 23, August 10, 2015. Available on SSRN.

“Topic Detection and Compressed Classification in Twitter.” By Dimitrios Milioris,

Philippe Jacquet. IEEE European Signal Processing Conference, August 2015, Nice,

France. Paper available here.

“REVEAL Project – Trust and Credibility Analysis.” By Stuart E. Middleton. A

presentation held at RDSM-2015. A WWW-2015 workshop in Florence, Italy.

“Semi-Supervised Learning of Event Calculus Theories”. By Nikos Katzouris , Alexander

Artikis and Georgios Paliouras. Proceedings of the Doctoral Consortium of ECML/PKDD

2015.

A full list of all publications throughout the whole REVEAL project is available here on the project

website.

2.6.2 Other publications

Next to scientific publications and our project-controled channels (the REVEAL website, REVEAL's

social network channels etc) REVEAL is also disseminated via other channels, i.e. publications on

external websites, in company publications (of project partners and third parties), via interviews with

REVEAL partners and such like.. The following ‘other publications’ have been produced in this

reporting period (this overview might not be complete, as it is highly likely that some publications in

which REVEAL was mentioned escaped our attention):

Pants on fire: content verification tools and other ways to deal with the fake news

problem. Description of how REVEAL tools could be useful to address the phenomenon of

‘fake news’, in a blog post of the CiTiP – KU Leuven directed to researchers, legal experts

and policy advisors. Published on 13 December 2016 (the article also appeared on the

REVEAL website in a slightly modified form on the same date).

The perils of app development – compliance with API Terms & Conditions. Summary of

the research findings in the area of compliance with the API Terms and Conditions of the

social media platforms targeted by REVEAL, in a blog post of the CiTiP – KU Leuven

directed to researchers, legal experts and policy advisors. Published on 15 November 2016.

Meetings of the Media Literacy Expert Group. Press release by the European

Commission reporting about the respective meetings. Last updated on 15 November 2016.

(REVEAL was represented in the November 2015 meeting and mentioned in the respective

communication).

Tool for journalists: REVEAL Project's tweet verification assistant. Article about the

‘tweet verification assistant’ tool developed in the REVEAL project. Published on

journalism.co.uk on 28 September 2016.

REVEAL and InVID partnering with First Draft News. Press release by DW Innovation

about REVEAL and InVID joining the First Draft News Partner Network. Published on the

DW Innovation blog on 16 September 2016

http://de.slideshare.net/revealeu/extracting-attributed-verification-and-debunking-reports-from-social-media-mediaeval2015-trust-and-credibility-analysis-of-image-and-video

http://revealproject.eu/wp-content/uploads/ME2015_UoS_ITI_workingnotes_v2.pdf


http://www.eurasip.org/Proceedings/Eusipco/Eusipco2015/papers/1570101209.pdf

http://de.slideshare.net/revealeu/reveal-project-trust-and-credibility-analysis

http://revealproject.eu/publications/

https://www.law.kuleuven.be/citip/blog/pants-on-fire-content-verification-tools-and-other-ways-to-deal-with-the-fake-news-problem/

https://www.law.kuleuven.be/citip/blog/pants-on-fire-content-verification-tools-and-other-ways-to-deal-with-the-fake-news-problem/

https://www.law.kuleuven.be/citip/blog/the-perils-of-app-development-compliance-with-api-terms-conditions/

https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/meetings-media-literacy-expert-group

https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/tool-for-journalists-reveal-project-s-tweet-verification-assistant/s2/a678187/

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First Draft Partner Network. Press release by First Draft News about their Partner Network,

in which REVEAL is a member. Published on First Draft News website in September 2016.

Facebook and Twitter join coalition to improve social media newsgathering. Reporting

by the Guardian on the First Draft Partner Network. Published on theguardian.com on 13

September 2016.

INTRASOFT leading Social Media verification Project for journalists and enterprises.

Press release by INTRASOFT promoting the REVEAL workshop in September 2016.

Published on the INTRASOFT website on 29 August 2016.

Media & Learning News. REVEAL mentioned as a European project supporting social

media verification in the Media and Learning News Newsletter, dated 11 August 2016.

Published by the Media & Learning Association.

Anschlag in Istanbul: Verifikation via Youtube und Twitter. Article about hands-on

verification by the ARD / tagesschau.de (main German news bulletin) in which they follow

REVEAL guidelines for finding breaking news on Twitter. Published on the blog of

tagesschau.de on 7 June 2016.

Innovative trust model to help journalists verify social media content. Article about the

novel solutions to assist journalists in assessing the accuracy of eyewitness media that have

been developed in the REVEAL project. Published on Phys.org on 19 May 2016.

Trübe Quellen. Review of REVEAL paper. Published on European Journalism Observatory

website on 9 May 2016.

Trübe Quellen. Review of REVEAL paper. Published on tagespiegel.de on 8 May 2016.

DW drives innovative solutions for verifying online content. Press release by Deutsche

Welle about the start of Verify Media as a spin-off of the REVEAL project. Published on

DW.com on 11 March 2016.

How to find breaking news on Twitter. Article on First Draft News in which tips and tricks

on how to search Twitter for breaking news are explained. Published on First Draft News

website on 19 February 2016.

Here’s how to stop Twitter’s new timeline affecting your newsgathering. Article about

the use of Twitter for journalism in which REVEAL research on keywords for finding breaking

news in Twitter is referred to. Published on First Draft News website on 10 February 2016.

Will verification kill fact-checking? Article in which Nikos Sarris (ATC) is interviewed

about the REVEAL project. Published on Poynter.org on 21 October 2015.

How the REVEAL Project aims to help journalists verify eyewitness media. Article

about the work done in the REVEAL project. Published on journalism.co.uk on 9 October

2015.

REVEAL and PHEME: Telling fact from fiction on social networks. Press release by the

EC about the collaboration between the two EC funded research projects REVEAL and

PHEME. Published on the Digital Single Market website on 12 August 2015.

https://firstdraftnews.com/partners-network/

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/sep/13/facebook-twitter-social-media-newsgathering

https://www.intrasoft-intl.com/news/intrasoft-leading-social-media-verification-project-journalists-and-enterprises

http://media-and-learning.eu/files/newsletter/Media-and-Learning-News_2015-08.pdf

http://media-and-learning.eu/

http://blog.tagesschau.de/?p=14148

http://phys.org/news/2016-05-journalists-social-media-content.html

http://de.ejo-online.eu/digitales/truebe-quellen

http://www.tagesspiegel.de/medien/media-lab-truebe-quellen/13566080.html

http://blogs.dw.com/insider/tag/verify-media/

https://firstdraftnews.com/how-to-find-breaking-news-on-twitter-social-media-journalism/

https://firstdraftnews.com/heres-how-to-stop-twitters-new-timeline-affecting-your-newsgathering/

http://www.poynter.org/2015/will-verification-kill-fact-checking/379435/

https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/how-the-reveal-project-aims-to-help-journalists-verify-eyewitness-media/s2/a572616/

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Look inside our toolbox for verification and analysis tips. Article about the verification

processes used at Deutsche Welle in which REVEAL impact at DW is reflected. Published

on dw.com on 21 June 2015.

Verifeye Media wants to bring ethics back into eyewitness news. Article pointing to

REVEAL as a research initiative investigating the issues around using UGC for reporting

from an academic standpoint. Published on Journalism.co.uk on 1 June 2015.

New DW app will have geolocated push alerts for eyewitness media. Article on

implementation of an ‘eyewitness channel’ in the new DW App in which REVEAL is

mentioned. Published on Journalism.co.uk on 20 May 2015.

Verification, Investigation and Digital Ethics. A round up by the Europen Journalism

Centre of the News Impact Summit Hamburg, Germany on 31 March 2015 in which REVEAL

was a partner. Published on the conference website.

Figure 14. Article about REVEAL Project’s tweet verification assistant on journalism.co.uk

http://www.dw.com/en/look-inside-our-toolbox-for-verification-and-analysis-tips/a-18529678

https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/new-deutsche-welle-app-will-have-geolocated-push-alerts-for-eyewitness-media/s2/a565171/

https://newsimpact.io/summits/hamburg

https://newsimpact.io/summits/hamburg#partners




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Figure 15: Press release by INTRASOFT with a status update of the REVEAL project

Figure 16: Press release by First Draft introducing their Partner Network




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2.7 Physical Dissemination tools

In the chapters that follow “physical” dissemination tools that have been developed within the

reporting period are described.

2.7.1 Banners

In order to boost REVEAL’s presence at conferences and trade fairs, two banners were developed:

one per use case of the REVEAL project (journalism and enterprise).

We have produced the banners in order for the audience to create an initial visual interest in the

project (an "eye-catcher"). This is done by making use of a large, topic-based image in combination

with clear, high-level information with a convincing marketing text, namely ‘Social Media

Management Made Easy’ and ‘Social Media Verification Made Easy’, triggering interest. More

detailed information about the REVEAL project is then provided by a REVEAL representative or a

presentation that is given. The design is fitting in with the overall project identity (created at the

outset of the project and described in great detail in Deliverable D8.2.1). The banners are supported

in visual identity by the flyers ("giveaways") that have also been developed.

Figure 17: REVEAL banners for Enterprise and Journalism use cases

2.7.2 Flyers After the initial REVEAL brochure had proven its value to inform our audiences about the aims of the

project, there then followed the need to inform audiences at trade fairs and conferences about the

updated aims and status of the REVEAL project. These new flyers have been made to support the

banners, but also function in their own right. They contain information about the specific use cases

and aims of the project, and provide information about how REVEAL is striving to achieve its aims.

Next to that, of course, clear contact information for anyone in need of more specific information is

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Figure 18: REVEAL A5 flyers for Enterprise and Journalism use cases

3 Collaboration with other projects, initiatives and people

Collaboration with other projects and initiatives (both being EU co-funded and not) often leads to new

insights or a head start in research or software development efforts. Exchanging ideas, findings and

approaches furthermore results in cross-fertilization, while also being important for respective

dissemination efforts. Especially, the latter leads to significant impact and awareness in industry – all

paving the way for subsequent uptake of research results. REVEAL has made full use of these

opportunities and feels it has achieved major results in this respect in the reporting period by

collaborating with individual projects on a project-to-project level, (e.g. by exchanging insights and

know-how) as well as being present at respective events and collaborate more broadly there (e.g. at

events such as the New European Media Summit in Porto, Portugal in November 2016; participation

in the MediaEval challenge in October 2016; or the big REVEAL workshop that was organized with

projects PHEME and InVID in Athens, Greece, in September 2016).

On the REVEAL website in the section ‘Related EU Projects’, we present a list of research projects

and activities in the REVEAL cluster and topical area that deal with related topics and have been of

interest for collaboration. Working contacts have been maintained with, among others, the ongoing

projects PHEME, Sense4us, HUMANE and the European Centre for Social Media. Results from

terminated projects in which REVEAL partners had been involved (e.g. SocialSensor) continued to

be taken into account for REVEAL developments.

Below, we provide some highlights and extracts of REVEAL's collaboration activities (please note:

some of what is featured below has also been included in the previous Dissemination report – but as

some of these collaborations have been ongoing, we thought it wise to include it here again for the

sake of completeness).



http://revealproject.eu/related-projects/

http://www.pheme.eu/

http://www.sense4us.eu/

https://humane2020.eu/

http://www.socialmediacentre.eu/

http://www.socialsensor.eu/




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REVEAL continued to be an active participant in and contributor to the European Centre for Social

Media.

Together with PHEME, REVEAL manned a shared stand / booth at the ICT 2015 event “Innovate,

Connect, Transform” in Lisbon in October 2015.

Together with CEA (France) from USEMP, CERTH has collaborated on the problem of multimedia

geotagging. The joint effort has led to a top geotagging performance (in terms of precision) in the two

recent editions of the MediaEval Placing task (2015/2016).

In the EC H2020 project HUMANE, REVEAL (among other case studies) was studied from the

aspect of a human-machine network in order to validate the HUMANE typology and methodologies

proposed.

Furthermore, REVEAL project partners continued to be active participants in other projects, co-

funded by the EC, that cover related research areas. Those to mention are especially EUMSSI,

MultiSensor, InVID and USEMP. Exchanges with these projects continued on various levels. For

example Nikos Sarris (ATC) is a member of the advisory board in InVID.

Aleksandra Kuczerawy (KU Leuven) was invited, based on her work in REVEAL, to participate in the

works of the Expert Committee of the Council of Europe that works on a draft recommendation on

Internet intermediaries and the preparation of a study on human rights dimensions of automated data

processing techniques (in particular algorithms) and possible regulatory implications.

Additionally, the REVEAL project kept up and extended collaborations with tech start-ups, verification

initiatives and platforms like Scribble Live, Emergent.info (now no longer operational) SAMdesk.io,

tame.it, Eyewitness Media Hub, Storyful, Bellingcat, First Draft News, The EBU's Eurovision network,

journalism.co.uk, the ARD Innovation network of German public broadcasters, GoogleNewsLab, The

European Journalism Centre (especially its News Impact Summit series), to name but a few.

REVEAL continued and intensified discussions with representatives of those named above about the

state of the art, working processes, data and information exchanges, best practices, verification

software and collaborative activities in order to inspire and be inspired. Numerous exchanges took

place and found their way into each other's working practices and approaches (to take just one

example: DW representatives are active members and recipients of information from the EBU's

verification network, while DW's REVEAL staff, in return, update the EBU's Eurovision team as well

as individual public broadcaster members with REVEAL achievements.)

Finally, a lot is about people, as we also mentioned in the previous Dissemination Deliverable! This

is especially so when it comes to reaching out to the business community. REVEAL is proud to say

that we have further extended our partner network and intensified existing contacts, all of them on a

personal basis guided by trust and respect for one another. Contacts with leading figures from the

verification sphere that have been intensified in the reporting period include (small extract):

Craig Silverman formerly of emergent.info and a fellow at the Tow Centre for Digital

Journalism at Columbia University, now Managing Editor of Buzzfeed Canada

Fergus Bell formerly of Samdesk.io, formerly Social Media editor at news agency AP, now

with his own consultancy Dig Deeper.

Denis Teyssou of French news agency AFP

Trushar Barot, and Matthew Eltringham of the BBC



http://www.pheme.eu/

https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/ict2015-innovate-connect-transform-lisbon-20-22-october-2015

https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/ict2015-innovate-connect-transform-lisbon-20-22-october-2015

http://www.usemp-project.eu/

http://www.multimediaeval.org/mediaeval2016/placing/index.html

https://humane2020.eu/

http://www.eumssi.eu/

http://www.multisensorproject.eu/

http://www.invid-project.eu/

http://www.usemp-project.eu/

https://www.coe.int/en/web/freedom-expression/committee-of-experts-on-internet-intermediaries-msi-net-

http://www.scribblelive.com/

http://www.emergent.info/

http://www.samdesk.io/

https://tame.it/

https://medium.com/@emhub

http://storyful.com/

https://www.bellingcat.com/

https://firstdraftnews.com/

https://www.eurovision.net/content-offers/news-exchanges/exchanges.php

https://www.journalism.co.uk/

http://blogs.dw.com/innovation/tag/ard/

https://newslab.withgoogle.com/

http://ejc.net/

https://newsimpact.io/

https://twitter.com/CraigSilverman

https://twitter.com/fergb

http://digdeepermedia.com/#intro

https://twitter.com/dteyssou

https://twitter.com/Trushar

https://twitter.com/mattsays




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Michael Wegener of Germany’s main news program tagesschau (ARD Aktuell)

Malachy Brown of the New York Times (formerly @reportedly and before that Storyful)

Tom Trewinnard of @Meedan

Eliot Higgins of Bellingcat

Hauke Janssen of German news magazine “Der Spiegel“

Anne-Marie Lupu of the European Broadcasting Union

Steffen Konrath of Liquid Newsroom

Sam Dubberley, Jenni Sargent and Claire Wardle of Eyewitness Media Hub (the latter acting

as Research Director at the Tow Centre for Digital Journalism at Columbia University from

May 2015 – Nov 2016, thereafter joining First Draft News full-time. Jenni Sargent also works

as managing editor of First Draft News in addition to her work with Eyewitness Media Hub)

Wilfried Rütten and Rina Tsubaki of the European Journalism Centre

Eoghan mac Suibhne of Storyful

Charlie Becket of the POLIS Institute at the London School of Economics

Newly established contacts in the reporting period include (but are not limited to):

Alex Murray, Mark Frankel and Dhruti Shah of the BBC

Mark Little, formerly CEO of Storyful and thereafter, until Nov 2016, at Twitter

Aine Kerr of Facebook

Mandy Jenkins of Storyful

Matt Cooke and Isa Sonnenfeld of Google News Lab

Wolfgang Wichmann and Chris Tanneberger of tagesschau / ARD Aktuell

Adam Thomas of the European Journalism Centre (who took over from Wilfried Rütten in

December 2016)

Majd Kalifeh of VRT Belgium

and many, many more.

As a final note we would like to state that some collaboration activities are also being carried out as

part of Task 8.4, namely “REVEAL community building”, led by project coordinator INTRASOFT.

https://twitter.com/wegener_michael

https://twitter.com/malachybrowne

https://twitter.com/Tom_El_Rumi

https://twitter.com/EliotHiggins

https://twitter.com/derspiegel

https://twitter.com/AMLoOpOo

https://twitter.com/StKonrath

https://twitter.com/samdubberley

https://twitter.com/Jennisarge

https://twitter.com/cward1e

https://twitter.com/wilfriedruetten

https://twitter.com/wildflyingpanda

https://twitter.com/buileshuibhne

https://twitter.com/CharlieBeckett

https://twitter.com/leguape

https://twitter.com/markfrankel29

https://twitter.com/dhrutishah

https://twitter.com/marklittlenews

https://twitter.com/AineKerr

https://twitter.com/mjenkins

https://twitter.com/mattcooke_uk

https://twitter.com/isasun

https://twitter.com/Wolllvieh

https://twitter.com/Tanne

https://twitter.com/datatheism

https://twitter.com/wilfriedruetten

https://twitter.com/Majd_Khalifeh




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4 Summary and Conclusions

This document comprises the third and final edition of the dissemination reporting for the REVEAL

project. It presents the dissemination activities that have been undertaken in the reporting period,

what dissemination materials have been produced, extracts of how and where REVEAL was

communicated (via project channels and third party channels) and what effects were achieved in the

course of the reporting period from April 2015 (M18) up to the end of the project's lifetime in

December 2016 (M38).

To recap, let us look back at REVEAL's dissemination strategy as it was outlined in greater detail in

the first dissemination Deliverable D8.2.1. The strategy consisted of the following three phases that

largely corresponded to REVEAL's three project years, but also had some overlaps. The phases

were:

Phase 1 – General Awareness & Reputation

Phase 2 – Engagement

Phase 3 - Impact

In Deliverable D8.2.2, we then reported about activities and achievements from M9 until M18 (until

May 2015). Having started with a number of awareness and reputation building activities in that

reporting period, we then shifted the focus of our activities to engaging more with the REVEAL target

audience.

The reporting period under consideration in this Deliverable (D8.2.3) now reports about activities

from M18 to M38 of the project. In this period we initially continued the deepened engagement with

our audience, while the focus then slowly shifted to what we had labelled as the "Impact Phase".

Looking at what we did overall and produced as well as initiated ourselves in terms of project

dissemination, the results we achieved, and judging by invitations we received in the reporting period

(e.g. to participate in expert networks, to attend conferences as speakers, to (co)author papers,

reports and articles, to be featured by third parties in their publications) – all this in tandem with the

contributions we made – we feel that we can convincingly (and proudly) say that full impact has been

achieved.

REVEAL is "there to stay" and its legacy will live on! This will be the case through individuals who

participated in the REVEAL project who will continue to be involved in future UGC verification

initiatives and activities, and tangible project outcomes such as software, code, know-how,

publications and such like. From the REVEAL consortium's point of view, we are of the opinion that

we have exceeded our initially set goals and delivered outstanding value for money in terms of

dissemination.

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