Also part of the NSF Convergence Accelerator Track F program was this project to the nonprofit group Meedan. Named “Co-Insights,” this was a software platform development project to “enable community, fact-checking, and academic organizations to work together to respond effectively to harmful misinformation targeting minoritized communities.”

Initially, Co-Insights was focused on Asian-American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities and focused “on detecting, mitigating, and preventing societal harms arising from misleading narratives, persistent stereotypes, and other patterns of deception.” It involved a combination of ethnography and discourse analysis from the social sciences with large-scale data mining and machine learning approaches to claim “matching holds significant promise to (a) scale up manual misinformation work, (b) identify and create taxonomies of misleading narratives, and (c) create data-efficient approaches to training machine learning models.”