How to disrupt the health misinformation business model
People need access to reliable evidence at the moment they encounter a questionable health claim online By Paul Martin Jensen and Avi Tuschman Aug. 13, 2026 Jensen is co-founder of Etalia and advises health executives and researchers in strategic communication. Tuschman is a Stanford StartX entrepreneur and founder and CEO of Crickit.ai. Over the last several years, fearmongering […]
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Crickit CEO speaks at The Evidence Collective
August 12, 2024. Avi Tuschman spoke at The Evidence Collective, Founded by Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) Epidemiologist and Science Communicator Katelyn Jetelina, and Public Health Scientist and Communicator Dr. Jess Steier. In conversation with YSPH Associate Research Scientist Matthew Facciani and Executive Director Elisabeth Marnik, Tuschman discussed state-of-the-art technology for real-time social video […]
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The Technically Human Podcast
My guest today is Avi Tuschman, founder and CEO of Crickit.ai, an AI tool that live fact-checks social media videos. It’s a visionary technology that analyzes and verifies claims made on videos shared on social media platforms in real time. Crickit.ai aims to help people make smarter, healthier decisions about what they accept as facts […]
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When the note arrives after the video
This Fair Observer article, coauthored by Meta's former Human Rights Policy Director and Crickit's CEO, is inspired by the Meta Oversight Board's warning this spring about Community Notes. It argues that crowdsourced correction may help at the margins, but as currently designed it is too slow, too thinly published, and too vulnerable to manipulation to […]
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Crickit launches automated social publishing
We're delighted to announce the soft launch of our automated social publishing system. The platform scans popular videos on topics important to your organization, identifies the claims most likely to engage audiences, generates evidence-based fact checks, and turns them into compelling social posts with video fact-check-sharing links and responsible tagging. You can watch a short […]
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Fast Company Recognized Crickit in World Changing Ideas Awards
Fast Company has recognized Crickit in their 2026 World Changing Ideas Awards, with an honorable mention in the General Excellence category. Learn more here.
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Buena Vida con Buena IA
¿Verdad o mentira? Verifica con IA #IA #información #herramientas #podcast ¿Lo que ves en internet es verdad… o desinformación? 🤯 En este episodio de Buena Vida con Buena IA, exploramos cómo la inteligencia artificial (IA) puede ayudarte a detectar noticias falsas, entender mejor la información que consumes y tomar decisiones más informadas en tu vida diaria. Conversamos con Avi […]
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The Hidden Tax of Financial Misinformation
In the Fair Observer's Economics & Finance Section, March 24, 2026. Online money advice has become a parallel financial system, shaped by incentives that reward certainty, urgency and hype. Studies of crypto-influencers, official fraud data and recent deepfake cases show how quickly falsehoods can translate into losses and volatility. Verification must become a daily habit inside […]
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AI-Powered Open Source Intelligence: From Viral Video to Evidence
Please join us on Monday, March 16, 2016, for a lecture and live demo at Universidade Federal do Pampa, with International Law Professor Carmela Marcuzzo, and Crickit Founder Avi Tuschman. This is the sequel to a 2021 talk: "Ciclo de Palestras de Temas Atuais de Direitos Internacional: Rosenbaum’s Maginal Entity: how to reduce misinformation on […]
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SuperPsyched Podcast with Dr. Adam Dorsay: #303 How to Fight Misinfo
Dr. Adam Dorsay introduces SuperPsyched and frames the growing misinformation problem, citing low trust in traditional media , the rise of influencer-based news consumption among 18–29 year olds, research that false news spreads faster than truth on Twitter, and the World Economic Forum ranking misinformation/disinformation as the most severe global risk in 2024 and 2025. […]
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Crickit Launches Real-Time Fact-Checking for Social Media Videos
New app overlays live fact-checks on YouTube videos, as trust in media hits record lows and nearly 4 in 10 young adults get news from influencers SAN FRANCISCO, November 19, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Crickit, a new real-time fact‑checking app for social media videos, has launched its desktop YouTube extension in open beta, initially available to holders of […]
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Crickit Launches Real-Time Fact-Checking for Social Media Videos
New app overlays live fact-checks on YouTube videos, as trust in media hits record lows and nearly 4 in 10 young adults get news from influencers SAN FRANCISCO—Nov. 19, 2025—Crickit, a new real-time fact‑checking app for social media videos, has launched its desktop YouTube extension in open beta, initially available to holders of Stanford email […]
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Benchmarking the Accuracy of Crickit’s Fact-Checking Engine
With trust in traditional news media at historic lows and the spread of online misinformation and disinformation now viewed as a significant global threat, tools that can automatically verify factual statements — and do so in a transparent, reproducible way — are increasingly important. Using a test set with known answers, or a “benchmark,” provides […]
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Exploring Potential Solutions to Online Disinformation
Please join the Stanford Cyber Policy Center for Exploring Potential “Solutions” to Online Disinformation, hosted by Cyber Policy Center's Kelly Born, with guests Adam Berinsky, Mitsui Professor of Political Science at MIT and Director of the MIT Political Experiments Research Lab (PERL) at MIT, David Rand, Erwin H. Schell Professor and an Associate Professor of Management Science and […]
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