Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

             As a part of the ODU Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) site in disinformation detection and analytics, we began research into querying certain sites for evidence of correct attribution of a tweet as a part of the “ Did They Really Say That? ” project. One site that proved to be particularly useful for this project was Politwoops , a project created by Propublica which serves as an archive for deleted tweets made by accounts belonging to political officials. Politwoops only tracks the accounts of candidates and current elected officials.  Since this project focuses on verifying attribution for social media posts, Politwoops serves as a particularly fruitful source of evidence for us. For one, the existence of a tweet on Politwoops serves as direct evidence that a tweet was actually made. It is also worth noting that even though Politwoops is limited to tracking only political officials, it still serves a valuable ...