Building trust in media

CiteIt is developing new digital tools that help combat misinformation and selective quotations. These tools show the context surrounding the quoted media in order to build trust and understanding.

Think Tank Funding Disclosure

In a recent podcast, Adam Johnson considers what woulld happen if journalists disclosed the interests of "Think Tanks'" funders, arguing that if they did, most think tanks would shrink because the enterprise serves as a giant narrative laundering operation:

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This is a very liberal demand which is like can you at least disclose the people know and I think that's really where you give the game away because if they did that they would be far far less funded and far less influential because they kind of nominal or widely perceived neutrality or or kind of academia sheen or branding is what gives them power

Quote Context Disclosure

If the context of most quotes was accessible with the click of a link, there would be far less out-of-context quotations and more reader trust.

Demo articles:

1) Adam Johnson Examples

  1. 3 Media Tactics the Right Will Use to Undermine Brandon Johnson
  2. Washington Post Continues to Lie About Social Security and Life Expectancy

2) Video Citations

See how writers can cite both web articles and video transcripts

  1. JD Vance on War and Peace  (by Ken Klippenstin)   ← View example
  2. Who Blew Up the Nord Stream Pipelines? "Russia, Russia, Russia!  (by Matt Taibbi)


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Tim Langeman Tim Langeman

CiteIt Creator, History major, and Computer Programmer




.. ow we think they're mostly good they're funders are disperse enough or kind of Scrappy enough their website looks like that's usually good indicator they're they're not as venal um do you do you look like a geoc city okay you can come on citations and I think that it's it's a spectrum you sort of call it at a certain point and say okay this is kind of Crossing into a line of of kind of more oft corruption and that's why I think again this is kind of a we're not asking for Guillotines here right This is a very liberal demand which is like can you at least disclose the people know and I think that's really where you give the game away because if they did that they would be far far less funded and far less influential because they kind of nominal or widely perceived neutrality or or kind of academia sheen or branding is what gives them power it's what gives them purchase in media yeah and and I mean that kind of purchase is also dependent on really who the audiences are right I mean there's like your casual liberal New York Times New Yorker reader who sees expert commentary from a you know Center for defense priorities and trusted democracies you know and it's like oh okay like this person sounds like an academic they come from a university now they work to Think Tank and okay that's like that seems like a sound policy but the thing is like polls have shown namely a poll from 2018 by a UK firm that pulled American Media consumers cast from clay found that just 20% of American News consumers trust what think tanks have to say so really it's like what is the value of this expertise and it is this laundering of Corporations of anti- Labor Crusaders into the media laundering it through rep portaged laundering it through expert commentary and getting it right back to the very policy makers that are going to continue giving mon..

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