MISSION
We're done with tolerating the misinfotainment culture. It's clever to disguise propaganda as entertainment, but it's immoral and dangerous. Join the Coffee Party Truth Squad. Let's collaborate on short-term and long-term strategies to squash misinformation/smear campaigns.
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Letter from Annabel, Nov 12, 2010
Hi everyone!
Let's collaborate on our ideas both short-term and long-term. Here is an idea that I have. We have nearly 325,000 followers on Facebook, about 70,000 email subscribers from the website, and over 8,000 Twitter followers.
Roughly one out of a 1000 Americans follow the Coffee Party. If we can get them to help us spread information, we can have impact.
We need form a Rapid Response Team to release fact checks at least once a week. We can use email, fb, twitter, youtube, blogging to respond rapidly to misinformation.
We would like volunteers to sign up for one or more of these positions:
- Gatherers to gather instances of misinformation.
- Researchers to research the facts.
- Writers to write up compelling communication pieces reporting the facts.
- Spreaders to help us get our fact checks out there.
- Correctors to demand corrections and accountability to spreaders of misinformation.
- Managers to help manage the volunteers and work flow.
Resources: http://www.factcheck.org/ http://politifact.com/ http://mediamatters.org/
What do you think? Any ideas?
Annabel
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