Hacks/Hackers #28 - Trolls & Journalism, Image Verification

Dear Hacks & Hackers crowd,

(Remember to go through the courtyard at the venue)

We have a wonderful Hacks/Hackers evening lined up this month in collaboration with Sourcefabric (http://www.sourcefabric.org/) and n-ost (http://www.n-ost.org/), around a project of the Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung (http://www.bpb.de/): Shift_Shape_Mobilize - a tools & skills workshop for bloggers.

Join us as the temperatures drop, and be warmed by the enthusiasm of our community as we discuss the intersection between Technology and Journalism.

Arzu Geybulla (http://www.arzugeybulla.com/) (@arzugeybulla) - is a journalist, blogger (http://flyingcarpetsandbrokenpipelines.blogspot.com/)and political activist from Azerbaijan. Due to her outspoken voice against the current government in Azerbaijan she has been the target of several trolls on social media. Her work focuses on peace-building and understanding in the South Caucasus. She will talk about how government trolls can affect freedom of speech online.

Linus Neumann (http://www.linus-neumann.de/) (@linuzifer) - As a psychologist, Linus is watching communication over the internet with a mix of fascination, sarcasm and despair. He works in an IT security company and is a speaker of the Chaos Computer Clubs. He's behind the weekly podcast Logbuch:Netzpolitik (http://logbuch-netzpolitik.de/), together with the famous German podcaster Tim Pritlove, and he's a regular contributor on netzpolitik.org (https://netzpolitik.org/author/linus/). He will talk about how to keep cool on social media and how technology can help defend ourselves from trolls online.

Douglas Arellanes (http://www.sourcefabric.org/en/home/team) (@dougiegyro) - One of the founders of Sourcefabric (http://www.sourcefabric.org/), Douglas is an American expatriate who has lived in the Czech Republic since 1992 Doug is a member of the board of Huridocs, a Geneva-based NGO serving human rights organisations, and a Saturday morning DJ on Prague's Radio 1. He will talk about how image verification in the newsroom and present Verified Pixel (http://www.verified-pixel.com/), an open source tool that unifies several popular existing image verification tests into an automated workflow.

** If you feel like staying late there will be a free showing of "Domino Effect" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FakcwZ0bCTo) by Elwira Niewieranat 9.30pm in the same venue. **

As always, if you can help us find speakers, hosts or have a burning desire for a specific topic to be covered please contact us.

Kind regards,
Hacks/Hackers organising team.