This is a running list of research papers and media we consumed, got inspired by and synthesized in the creation of Viral Spiral. We hope that our background research can serve as a jumping off point for other interventions.
The reward mechanisms of posting on social media are gamified to begin with - so why not a game that deals with just that?
Informed Interventions on misinformation require greater contextual story telling. Social media archives are an important resource in the process.
We tried image hashing on 10k images from our archive and had promising results.
