Computational trust assessment of open media data

The explosion and newly found reliance on open media has enabled rapid situational assessment especially in austere, hard to reach environments (e.g., sites with natural disasters, places of political unrest). However, the data, while plentiful has left users wishing to turn it into insights or information with a key void: trust assessment. Herein lies the challenge the authors aim to address in this paper: automated, computational trust assessment of rapidly generated and disseminated information.