Storyful’s New Investigative Reporting Unit Helps Publishers Dig into Social Media

Posted Wednesday, October 23, 2019 2:32 pm

Laura Hazard Owen | Nieman Lab

The Islamic State on TikTok. Child sex abuse on Facebook. The trolling of Meghan Markle.

What do these stories—published by The Wall Street Journal, The Times of London, and Sky News—have in common, besides a certain grim 2019-ness? They all used data from social media agency Storyful’s nascent investigative unit, which officially launched this month as Investigations by Storyful...

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