How the UK Department for Culture, Media & Sport use Pulsar to detect misinformation narratives
- Government
Practically every conversation taking place online is affected by misinformation. Recognising it when it appears, and acting decisively to counter it, is therefore an increasingly important priority for organizations.
And when that conversation centres on one of the largest cultural moments in a nation’s recent history, with the organization in question responsible for monitoring threats to public safety and the proliferation of harmful online narratives, it becomes a greater priority still.
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) is a government body with myriad responsibilities across these three areas. In 2023, these included monitoring the online conversation around the coronation of King Charles III.
Kieran Moriarty, Senior Communications Officer at DCMS, utilised Pulsar to understand how different audiences spoke and behaved online when discussing the coronation.
In this case study, you’ll discover how the DCMS use Pulsar to:
- Discover which misinformation narratives take root amongst global & domestic audiences
- Map how the interplay between traditional and social media sees these narratives mutate and find new audiences
- Use Pulsar’s NewsGuard integration to understand how exposed a conversation is to non-credible news sources
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This article was created using data from TRAC
