Building CDDBS — Part 4: Multi-Platform Disinformation Detection

Why Multiple Platforms Matter Disinformation doesn't live on one platform. A narrative might originate on a Telegram channel, get amplified through Twitter retweet networks, and eventually surface in fringe news outlets that look legitimate enough to fool casual readers. If your detection system only watches one platform, you're seeing one act of a three-act play. CDDBS was initially built around SerpAPI — a news search engine. That covers the news outlet angle: you give it "RT" and it finds recent RT articles to analyze. But analyzing the articles themselves doesn't tell you about the amplification network around those articles. For that, you need platform data. Sprint 3 added platform adapter interfaces for Twitter and Telegram. Sprint 5 wired the Twitter adapter into the live pipeline with real API v2 calls. This post covers both: the adapter architecture and the Twitter integration. The Adapter Pattern The core challenge is data heterogeneity. A Twitter API v2 response looks nothin