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Newsq: newsq is an initiative of the tow-knight center for entrepreneurial journalism at the craig newmark graduate school of journalism and supported by hacks/hackers. Newsq seeks to elevate quality journalism when algorithms rank and recommend news articles online. We approach this problem by engaging in design thinking activities in collaboration with technology, journalism, academia and other communities. Through our participatory approach, we hope to promote constructive steps towards solutions that drive financial support towards quality news and away from disinformation, and misinformation.

Local events: hacks/hackers is one of the leading conveners around misinformation work in the world cofounding the credibility coalition, misinfocon and credcon, all interdisciplinary activities that draw together a worldwide network to combat misinformation both physically and virtually. Hacks/hackers and the credibility coalition have regularly held 150-person credcon and misinfocon events in cities around the world, including london, kyiv, austin, Texas, Washington, d.c., cambridge, and scotland. Past sponsors and partners have included facebook, microsoft, mozilla, the knight foundation, irex, craig newmark, the jsk fellowship at stanford, the wikipedian community, and the nieman foundation. Hacks/hackers events are diverse, grassroots, open conferences that welcome anyone who would like to participate. Hacks/hackers holds events around the world ranging from panels, talks, and "pub nights" to more elaborate all-day conferences and hackathons.

Misinformation work: hacks/hackers is committed to being a thought leader in information integrity. Our largest current project is on vaccine misinformation, which has received support from the national science foundation. We also engage with the wikimedia community, supporting robust collaboration in making accurate information free and widely available to interested publics. In addition, we incubate projects in areas such as fact-checking (news detective) and artificial intelligence (including offering workshops to train and educate journalists in its use).