For example, on September 28, 2012, Elect.UA received an anonymous message via its website that parliamentary candidate Leonid Datsenko had been invited for a discussion by a stranger, and then was intimidated in order to force him to withdraw from the elections. The next day, the administrators of the platform found an article6 in a reliable media source that included a record of the exchange. We still held the report for verification, and then, on October 1, local journalists reported on a press conference about the incident7. Elect. UA’s local journalists also conducted interviews with local law enforcement services, who acknowledged this case to be true. Overall, the Elect.UA team managed to verify an incredible amount of information using these protocols, and also noticed that the more the administrators became familiar with the verification process, the faster they were able to work. This proves that the verification of usergenerated content is a skill that can be systematized and learned, resulting in efficient, reliable results. The decision tree model: 34

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