by Sentinel Project | Sep 6, 2022 | General News, Misinformation, Technology
How do we know that something we hear or read is accurate? What conventions or practices help us to establish whether a new piece of information is true or false? What is the harm in repeatedly receiving incorrect information? It seems as though it is becoming harder...
by Nishadi Gunatilake | Apr 24, 2022 | Early Warning, General News, Misinformation, Sri Lanka, Technology
The Sentinel Project ran a pilot misinformation management project in Sri Lanka from July 2021 to December 2021. This article examines the trends and patterns of misinformation observed in 2021 as a result of the project’s monitoring work, summarises some of the...
by John Green Otunga | Feb 28, 2022 | Early Warning, Kenya, Misinformation, Technology, Una Hakika
The Sentinel Project is building a network of like-minded stakeholders to collaborate on preventing and mitigating violence related to Kenya’s 2022 general election. Often seen as a beacon of stability in its region, political upheaval in Kenya can have ramifications...
by Raashi Saxena | Jan 31, 2022 | Conferences, Early Warning, Technology
The Sentinel Project recently organised a workshop at the 16th annual UN Internet Governance Forum held in Katowice, Poland. Our session titled “The Challenges of Online Harms : Can AI moderate Hate Speech?” brought together human rights experts with...
by The Sentinel Project | Aug 31, 2021 | Early Warning, General News, Technology
Building on the extensive work of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s Xinjiang Data Project, the Sentinel Project is working to analyze satellite imagery of locations of alleged detention and re-education facilities within the Xinjiang region. These...
by The Sentinel Project | Apr 16, 2021 | Early Warning, Misinformation, Somalia, Technology
With contributions from Ahmed Gelle of the Manaal Relief Foundation The Sentinel Project recently launched a misinformation management pilot project together with an organization in Somalia called the Manaal Relief Foundation (MRF). The pilot project is taking place...
by Christopher Tuckwood | Sep 30, 2020 | Conferences, General News, South Sudan, Team Announcements, Technology, Una Hakika
We recently expanded our Una Hakika misinformation management project to Kakuma Refugee Camp and nearby areas of northwestern Kenya. Our goal is to support refugees and host communities in stopping the spread of harmful rumours and misinformation that contribute to...
by Drew Boyd | Sep 9, 2019 | Burma, General News, Situations of Concern, Technology
The Sentinel Project currently operates Peaceful Truth (www.peacefultruth.org), which is an action-research initiative in Mandalay, Myanmar focused on misinformation management and funded by the International Development Research Centre. Peaceful Truth currently...
by Timothy Quinn | Apr 3, 2019 | Technology
I’m often asked whether the world is a more hateful place today than it was yesterday. Are current levels of intolerance and xenophobia statistically meaningful – waypoints on the road to some grim Mad Max world of hypertribalism? It’s a difficult question...
by Christopher Tuckwood | Mar 8, 2019 | General News, Hagiga Wahid, Situations of Concern, South Sudan, Team Announcements, Technology, Uganda, Una Hakika
“A refugee heard that someone back in South Sudan had come with soldiers to kill his family so he prepared his community to go and fight the people in another camp and take revenge on the perpetrator’s community.” Reported to the Sentinel Project team in...
by Timothy Quinn | Jan 31, 2019 | Technology
pilotfish n. A small fish which swims alongside a shark in a symbiotic relationship, devouring parasites in return for protection Wikipedia When we relaunched Hatebase at the end of last year, we deployed not only a wealth of new data attributes (e.g. targeted groups,...
by Timothy Quinn | Dec 11, 2018 | Technology
If you’ve connected with the Hatebase API in the past, you’ll notice a number of changes with v4; we’ve updated our authentication and added several new data attributes, including specific targeted groups, so any code you’ve written to...
