We are grateful for the outpouring of support we've received over the past day or so, and are currently starting to wade through it all, as well as working to map out and analyze all the outraged accounts who jump in randomly to tell us how great Putin is and decry the very suggestion that Russian influence operations might actually be a real thing.
We are also amused by everyone who wants to change the subject. We have been writing code, collecting data, analyzing data, manually reviewing outlets, responding to media, drafting, editing, internally debating, etc, with a team of volunteers, on a holiday weekend, and it is working. We have helped start the conversation we wanted to start, and greatly increased awareness of the problem we are trying to address. There remains much more to do, but we look forward to the upcoming public discussion, and intend to respond to questions and requests for more information as soon as humanely possible - again, bearing in mind that we are an all-volunteer team, with no budget, on a holiday weekend.
There are a few points of interest, however:
Thank you very much for all your support, and watch this space - much more soon.
-- The PropOrNot Team
We are also amused by everyone who wants to change the subject. We have been writing code, collecting data, analyzing data, manually reviewing outlets, responding to media, drafting, editing, internally debating, etc, with a team of volunteers, on a holiday weekend, and it is working. We have helped start the conversation we wanted to start, and greatly increased awareness of the problem we are trying to address. There remains much more to do, but we look forward to the upcoming public discussion, and intend to respond to questions and requests for more information as soon as humanely possible - again, bearing in mind that we are an all-volunteer team, with no budget, on a holiday weekend.
There are a few points of interest, however:
- We will be updating our Frequently Asked Questions in response to some of the most common inquiries we've received, although we intend to get back to everyone as soon as possible as well. Watch that space.
- We will be updating The List slightly as well, in part based on the numerous new outlets we've been asked to look into over the past 24 hours. We will do that as soon as we can sink our analysis tools and review processes into the outlets we've been asked to look into, and we'll be updating our browser plugin as well. Due to different volunteers being responsible for different parts of the option, please note that the list in the plugin is slightly ahead of the list on the website. We will fix that.
- We are updating our homepage slightly, to give people a better sense for what the Russian folks working to influence US public opinion look and sound like.
- We are proud to present our Black Friday Report, and extremely grateful to everyone who contributed! We look forward to your thoughts, suggestions, and contributions as we move forward. It is available for download here, or can be reivewed directly below:
Thank you very much for all your support, and watch this space - much more soon.
-- The PropOrNot Team
