Legit
Legit helps reporters identify and verify information from sources on the ground at breaking news events. When an on-the-scene witness posts photos, videos or more online via social media, Legit lets reporters:
- Identify geotagged tweets close to a breaking news event's location
- Queue tweets from a breaking news scene for verification
- Reach out to breaking news witnesses who are posting to social media
Future Ideas
- Hoax bot - for false items, tweet at people who retweet this.
- Different/better sorting criteria
- Adjustable sorting weights
- Combining tweets from multiple keywords
- More social sources (instagram, reddit)
- Management of rate limiting
- Outputs: dashboard for editorial use, quick view for reader use, auto-creation of storify
