About: Meedan

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Meedan is a technology not-for-profit that builds software and programmatic initiatives to strengthen journalism, digital literacy, and accessibility of information online and off. Meedan builds Check, an open-source software platform for fact-checking and content annotation and runs Health Desk, a service that brings together public health professionals to provide expertise and summaries of challenging public health concepts on-request for journalists, fact-checking organizations, and media outlets. Meedan also runs Check Global, a project to improve digital literacy, community-building and political engagement skills for citizen journalists, activists, journalism students, civil society organizations and human rights defenders through training, programming and research and the Digital He

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  • Meedan is a technology not-for-profit that builds software and programmatic initiatives to strengthen journalism, digital literacy, and accessibility of information online and off. Meedan builds Check, an open-source software platform for fact-checking and content annotation and runs Health Desk, a service that brings together public health professionals to provide expertise and summaries of challenging public health concepts on-request for journalists, fact-checking organizations, and media outlets. Meedan also runs Check Global, a project to improve digital literacy, community-building and political engagement skills for citizen journalists, activists, journalism students, civil society organizations and human rights defenders through training, programming and research and the Digital Health Lab, which focuses on applied research and policy for improving the quality and equity of online health information. (en)
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  • 501(c)3 non-profit
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  • Jon Corshen Hanan Heakal Tim Hwang Zeynep Tufekci Maria Ressa (en)
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  • 2005 (xsd:integer)
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  • San Francisco, CA (en)
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  • Ed Bice (en)
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  • Founder, CEO, Chairman (en)
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  • Non-Profit Organization (en)
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  • Meedan is a technology not-for-profit that builds software and programmatic initiatives to strengthen journalism, digital literacy, and accessibility of information online and off. Meedan builds Check, an open-source software platform for fact-checking and content annotation and runs Health Desk, a service that brings together public health professionals to provide expertise and summaries of challenging public health concepts on-request for journalists, fact-checking organizations, and media outlets. Meedan also runs Check Global, a project to improve digital literacy, community-building and political engagement skills for citizen journalists, activists, journalism students, civil society organizations and human rights defenders through training, programming and research and the Digital He (en)
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  • Meedan (en)
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