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Is Crowdsourced Data Reliable?

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Is Crowdsourced Data Reliable?

Countless companies now leverage crowdsourcing as a key component of their business model even though crowdsourced data has several crucial weaknesses. It’s hard to guarantee the diversity, reliability and expertise of information collected from strangers. For example, NBC reported more than 3,000 global news outlets inadvertently published tweets by Russian-backed trolls during the 2016 U.S. presidential…

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