Crowdsourcing is cool again, and you can join the fun of verifying donors to Trump’s inaugural
Crowdsourcing? That’s a name we haven’t heard around these parts since 2011 or so, when the New York Times sent an open invitation to readers to spend the weekend helping sift through more than24,000 of Sarah Palin’s emails in search of juicy dirt. If we remember correctly, that fishing expedition turned out to be a bit of a bust, which might explain why the mainstream media seemed to sour on crowdsourcing taking a hard pass, for example, on having readers scour a dump of some 30,000 “lost” emails fromformer IRS official Lois Lerner, which then turned up on hundreds ofdisaster recovery tapes.
Just like fact-checking, crowdsourcing is now cool again, and the Huffington Post is thrilled to have hundreds of volunteer muckrakers busily verifying donors to President Trump’s inaugural. Really, it’s a party atmosphere out there the likes of which hasn’t been seen since those pussy hat knitting bees.
Right now 100 volunteers + 6 editors are collaborating to verify the identity of Trump's inaugural donors. Join us! https://t.co/Dna3e25KEN
— Christina Wilkie (@christinawilkie) April 21, 2017
This is great work by @christinawilkie. Join in! https://t.co/9tQ5yR7gWE
— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) April 20, 2017
Join the hunt and help us investigate Trump's inauguration donors! https://t.co/2Q9oWry9t0
— Christina Wilkie (@christinawilkie) April 20, 2017
If you want to volunteer some time to help track the donors to Trump's Inauguration, here's the master doc to track findings https://t.co/skJYV773bi
— Gloria Custodio (@gmcustodio) April 20, 2017
I made a public sheet so all you awesome volunteer researchers can keep track of what you find. Just add a comment: https://t.co/Dna3e25KEN
— Christina Wilkie (@christinawilkie) April 20, 2017
Awesome effort. https://t.co/s4oKrll04L
— Charles Ornstein (@charlesornstein) April 20, 2017
@christinawilkie You are boss. Thank you for this digging!
— Seth Grimes (@TakomaSeth) April 20, 2017
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