Get Involved
There are many ways to get involved with MisinfoCon
MisinfoCon is a global movement focused on building solutions to online trust, verification, fact checking, and reader experience in the interest of addressing misinformation in all of its forms.
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Ways to Get in Touch
If you want to join this growing global movement, here are some starting points:
- Newsletter: For biweekly updates on events, news, articles and opportunities, please hop on our email list
- Twitter: For real time updates, we’re also on Twitter
- Slack: To join the Slack channel, shoot a quick email to contact at hackshackers dot com with “Join MisinfoCon Slack” in the subject line
- Medium: You can follow us here on Medium for essays, blog posts and updates on MisinfoCon.com
Live Events
Various events have featured talks by people leading initiatives to fight misinformation, discussions bringing together key themes and challenges, and town hall-style conversations that brought the big picture into focus. We also share demos of tools being developed to help journalists, newsrooms, and readers make better sense of the information around them.
The second in-person gathering was MisinfoCon at MozFest, Mozilla’s open web festival, in London, in October 2017. The event focused on three areas critical to the fight against misinformation: literacy and critical thinking, data and metrics, and global responses to misinformation.
Since then, we’ve had gatherings in Washington, D.C.; Kyiv, Ukraine; and a return to MozFest in London. We also co-sponsored CredCon, the first credibility hackathon, in Austin, Texas.
Members of the community in Scotland and Cambridge held their own MisinfoConX and CredConX, local versions of the larger summits.
MisinfoCon always wants to hear from community members about ideas for new events.
News from the Misinformation Space
We host essays, blog posts and updates on the MisinfoCon website and share them via our biweekly newsletter.
If you are working on a project, have done some research, or feel that you could contribute in another way, send us a pitch. A typical story is between 700 and 1,000 words.
