Meedan Inc.

“The Meedan Board of Directors is presented with the DRAFT 990 in electronic form and a vote is taken to approve the DRAFT 990. The final 990 is then distributed to the Meedan Board of Directors in electronic form.”

“At each contracting event, the Meedan Board of Directors is informed of any potential conflict of interest. If the Board determines there is a conflict of interest it will deliberate on this matter, excluding from deliberations and voting any BoD member participating in this conflicted interest.”

“The Board evaluates the CEOs salary annually, looking at Glassdoor salaries at comparable organizations”

“All key employees are offered contracts that use Glassdoor or similiar job compensation data to determine appropriate compensation.”

“Form 990 is available publicly via Guidestar and upon request.”

“The Organization makes its governing documents, conflict of interest policy, and financial statements available to the public upon request.”

“Meedan Research - Prior research driven program, CredCo, combined with other additional research efforts focused on challenging computer science topics including claims extraction and matching, cross-lingual claims matching, topic extraction, and image matching.”

“CredCo has been expanded and changed to Meedan Research. See note 07, above.”

“Other fees for service expenses are contractor payments for Software Design, Engineering and Media Partners.”

“Program Service Accomplishments - Check - continued from Page 2All aspects of the Check Global Program share a goal of improving digital literacy, community-building and political engagement skills for citizen journalists, activists, journalism students, civil society organizations and human rights defenders, thus strengthening their role as investigators and contributors to the public sphere. In 2020, we also released the Content Moderation Toolkit for Civil Society as a framework toward a common vocabulary and methodology for content moderation as a toolkit for civil society and platforms alike.We are committed to strengthening the capacities of our partners to use media andtechnology to:- Counter the rise of misinformation and disinformation - Provide credible information and address inequalities in access to information.- Develop media literacy skills so they, and the communities they work with, are better equipped to hold public figures to account Program Service Accomplishments - Digital Health Lab - continued from Page 2Over the course of 2020, expressed through https://health-desk.org (formerly under https://learnaboutcovid19.org), our Digital Health Lab team has researched, tested and co-designed a collaborative fact-checking model for health content based on syndication. We tested a hypothesis that a rapid-response process where a team of health experts distill scientific evidence based on requests made by fact-checkersrequests that other communicators around the world may also have we can meet the needs of audiences searching for health information online more efficiently, at larger scales, across regions, and directly where searching takes place. This initiative involves:- Collecting critical pandemic-related queries directly from fact-checking organizations and other community information leaders- Triaging COVID-19 content to send to team members with specific public health expertise to provide standardized responses- Designing content packages for responses grounded in standards of care for health communications- Working directly with third-party fact-checkers to disseminate query answers to the public, with a special emphasis on closed messaging integration software Program Service Accomplishments - CredCo - continued from Page 2Tiplines to Combat Misinformation on Encrypted Platforms: A Case Study of the 2019 Indian Election on WhatsApp compares the content received on a WhatsApp misinformation tiplines run during the 2019 Indian general election with content scraped from large, political groups on WhatsApp during the same time period. We found that tiplines capture a meaningful proportion of the most viral content, and, most significantly, this content often appears on the tipline before appearing in the public groups.”