An Xiao Mina

An “An Xiao” Mina is a technologist, writer and artist. She leads the product team at Meedan, where they are building Check, a platform for collaboratively verifying news in real time, and Bridge, a platform for translating social media and messaging app content. Check has played a key role in innovative digital journalism projects such as Electionland and CrossCheck, both of which won the Online Journalism Awards. She is also project lead at the Credibility Coalition, an effort to develop a standard for assessing content credibility online. At Harvard University, Mina is an affiliate researcher at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society and a recent 2016 Knight Visiting Fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, where she studied online language barriers and their impact on journalism.