This article explains:

The Shared Feed is a collaborative tool designed to enable partner organizations to share data, insights, and analysis in a structured manner. It allows workspaces to combine their data into a single shared view, providing a diverse perspective on information trends, narratives, and fact-checking efforts across different regions, languages, and contexts.

The Shared Feed is a versatile and powerful tool, designed to enhance collaboration and deepen the understanding of information flows in an increasingly interconnected world. By sharing data through this centralized system, partners can better address the challenges posed by misinformation, disinformation, and evolving narratives in real time.

The Shared Feed enables multiple workspaces to collaborate more effectively, leading to richer insights and a broader understanding of information dynamics. Some of the key benefits include:

The core idea behind the Shared Feed is to provide partners with a customizable and collaborative environment for data sharing. Partners decide what they wish to share on the Shared Feed by creating custom lists, which act as keys for accessing and sharing specific data.

The data available in the Shared Feed depends on what each participating group chooses to share. This means that the completeness and diversity of the information can vary based on the contributions of each contributing workspace.

A flexible aspect of the Shared Feed is that partners can create multiple Shared Feeds with different organizations. This allows them to customize each feed according to specific needs, collaborations, or occasions, creating targeted data-sharing environments that fit their current focus or goals.

✨ PRO TIP: Sort the content of the Shared Feed by date, number of requests, and number of media, this way you can see trends and demands. And these may be the claims you'd like to fact-check first.

Custom lists serve as the gateway to the Shared Feed. Partners can create lists to define the types of content they want to contribute to the shared space. There are two ways to populate these custom lists:

These lists not only determine what data is shared but also control which content other workspaces can access within the Shared Feed.

Custom lists provide flexibility and granularity using filters, enabling partners to:

To create a custom list:

The types of data that can be shared on the Shared Feed initially include:

During regional or global events such as elections, conflicts, or health emergencies, third-party organizations (social media platforms, researchers, and other media organizations) need access to data in order to understand the misinformation landscape – but sourcing that data is difficult.

With Shared Feeds, organizations managing tiplines on Check can collaborate with one another to create a 'feed of fact-checks'. Each organization can select fact-checks from its own workspace and collectively create a feed of content that can then be accessed via API by a third-party organization.

Shared Feeds can be created to build a resource about specific topics – a health crisis, a political event, etc – or they can be maintained by organizations interacting with different demographics in the same country in order to provide a comprehensive information resource at the national level.

If the shared feed is distributed to a third-party service that has its own users, those users can query the shared feed. For example, if a government body in India has a tipline bot with an audience but does not have a fact-checking service, a Shared Feed can be used to deliver fact-checks. In this case:

Partners often share fact-checks, user-generated requests for verification, and media that has been flagged for further review. This data can include text, images, and videos that are central to understanding ongoing narratives.

Yes. Partners have full control over what they share through the Shared Feed. By using custom lists, you can decide precisely what data is available to other workspaces. This ensures that you only share information that aligns with your organization’s goals and privacy standards.

When sharing data such as Tipline requests, other partners will not be able to see user information. This allows for collaboration without compromising user privacy, ensuring that shared data complies with relevant data protection standards.

The Shared Feed does not support in-app cross-workspace communication or messaging between teams outside of sharing data. If partners need to discuss specific items or coordinate outside of data-sharing, they will need to use other communication tools.

It does not include built-in data analytics tools. Partners who wish to perform deeper analysis on shared data will need to export the data for analysis using external platforms.

Tags will only start pulling items (queries or fact-checks) that are received or imported/created after the tag has been created and don’t pull items retrospectively. If you need.

Once a Shared Feed is established, partners can start collaborating and using the insights it provides. With a single view into multiple Tiplines, each workspace can:

1- Create a custom tag (if there isn’t already a tag(s) you wish to use). You can do this by clicking: Settings > Tags > New tag

Next add a “name” or title for your tag and set up the query by selecting the following conditions:

If: Content contains one or more of the following keywords and add the keywords you wish to use. These are comma-separated with a space after the comma (e.g. Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Kamala Harris)

Click the 2nd + Add condition button and choose Or. You will need to do the same thing for the following conditions: Extracted text contains keyword and Request contains one of more of the following keywords. Your tag query should look like this:

Click on Save tag when you are done.

2- Create a custom list to pull in items with the relevant tag(s).

Go to Tipline > All media and selection Tag from the drop down menu. Choose the tag(s) you wish to include and click Apply.

Don’t worry if nothing shows as it takes some time for Check to start tagging the content and for it to appear.

Now click the + sign next to Custom Lists to create a new list with the selected tag(s).

Give your list a name and click Create List.

3- Create a Shared Feed

Click on the 3rd icon on the left, which is the Shared Feed space.

If you have been invited to a shared feed, it should appear under SHARED FEEDS. To create a new feed, click on Create shared feed at the top-right corner.

You will need to add a title, choose what date is shared in the feed (published fact-checks, media, claims and requests or both).

Scroll down to choose the custom list you just created.

Add the emails of the people who you wish to contribute to the feed. Please note: you only need to send an invite to one person from each workspace.

Click save when you are done.

Now your shared feed is ready and will start collecting data from the participating custom lists.