Projects - Factchecking

EUfactcheck.eu

Mechelen

EUfactcheck, an initiative of the European Journalism Training Association (EJTA) fights misinformation about European policies and topics. Journalism students from all over Europe factcheck claims made by politicians and others and rate them.

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Google Factcheck Explorer

A standalone product for users to query the veracity of text- and image-based claims

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Hibrid.info

Prishtina, Kosovo

Kosovo factchecking project out of ADS nonprofit

Global Fact Check Fund

The Global Fact Check Fund will award grants in an open competition for one or a series of programs to support third-party organizations in strengthening the capabilities of fact-checking organizations across the world.

PolétikaRD Chequeos

C. Josefa Perdomo 160 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Fact-checking in the Dominican Republic

Kosh

Archive containing content scraped from all the different sources- the Tattle Jod telegram bot, Fact-checking sites, social media and chat apps.

Chequeo Colectivo

Es una plataforma abierta para verificar contenidos a pedido de la comunidad.

WhatsApp Third Party Fact-Checkers

San Francisco

End-to-end fact-checking on the WhatsApp Business API organized by Meedan

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Ellinika Hoaxes

Greece

Τα «ellinikahoaxes.gr» είναι ο μοναδικός ελληνικός ιστότοπος κατά της παραπληροφόρησης και η μοναδική συντονισμένη προσπάθεια κατάρριψης αναληθών δημοσιευμάτων στο ελληνικό διαδίκτυο. Εργαλεία μας, η έρευνα, η συλλογή στοιχείων και πληροφοριών από αξιόπιστες πηγές και σωστή αξιολόγηση τους.

Cazadores de Fake News

Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)

Somos una comunidad crowdsourcing que monitorea la desinformación difundidas en cadenas de WhatsApp y redes sociales entre venezolanos. Nuestro centro de operaciones es un grupo de Telegram abierto en el que analizamos colectivamente la información que recibimos.

Mchaguzi

Kenya

Mchaguzi is an independent web-based, voter-centred electoral intelligence toolkit designed and implemented by The Demography Project, to enhance citizen participation and engagement before, during and after the 2022 Kenyan General Election.

Watchdog

Sri Lanka

Watchdog is a multidisciplinary team of factcheckers, journalists, researchers and software engineers. We hunt hoaxes and misinformation, investigate matters of public welfare, and build software tools that help operations like ours.

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Tirto.id

Indonesia

Tirto.id translates the enlightening vision as the necessity of presenting clear, enlightening, insightful, contextual, deep, investigative, factual, supported by a lot of quantitative and qualitative data. - both secondary and primary, and can be accounted for.

Verify-Sy

Syrian Arab Republic

Verify-Sy platform is a media platform specialized in examining news and images and verifying information, and Verify-Sy platform seeks to achieve two noble goals: ensuring the citizen's right to obtain accurate and correct information, and contributing as much as possible to improving the performance of the Syrian media and upgrading it by displaying the imbalances that affect it.

Claim Buster

Arlington, Texas

"Claim Buster allows for fact checking of individual personal claims or claims by public officials. Users can insert their own claims or links to claims said publically to find out their factuality." - Countering Disinfo

South Asia Check

Kathmandu, Nepal

South Asia Check is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit initiative by Panos South Asia which aims to promote accuracy and accountability in public debate.

Vishvas News

New Delhi

Vishvas News is an information fact-check and verification portal that is committed to debunking fake news and misinformation in Hindi, English and 10 different Indic languages.

Myth Detector

Georgia

Fact-checking and media literacy

Agência Lupa

The Magnifier is the first news agency in Brazil to specialize in journalistic technique known worldwide as fact-checking and was founded on November 1, 2015.

Centre for Democracy & Development Fact Check program

Factly

Hyderabad

Factly strives to cultivate civic participation and engaging citizens in accessing, understanding, and using important government data/information at various levels

ZimFact

Zimbabwe

ZimFact is an independent, non-partisan Zimbabwean online fact-checking platform.

CongoCheck

Congo (the Democratic Republic of the)

Congo Check est un média spécialisé dans la vérification des faits ou factchecking. Congo Check est un projet de l'ASBL/ONG Initiative des fact-chechekers du Congo, IFC.

Mafindo

Indonesia

Served as a center for clarification of issues suspected to be hoaxes.

El Sabueso

Animal Politico's fact-checking project. "Fooling a dog is difficult."

Rappler Fact Check

Rappler values truth-telling, facts, and factual reporting.

Social Media Hoax Slayer

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

In the last few years, the Social Media having a wider reach and faster, started polluting human minds by anti-social elements, wrong doers, pranksters etc.

VERA Files Fact Check

VERA Files is a nonstock, nonprofit independent media organization.

Nepal Fact Check

Nepal

Center for Media Research – Nepal (CMR Nepal) is an autonomous, research and policy-oriented, not-for-profit non-governmental policy think tank registered with Nepal Government and Social Welfare Council and is based in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal.

BOOM

Mumbai

BOOM is an independent digital journalism initiative. We are India’s premier fact checking website, committed to bring to our readers verified facts rather than opinion. When there is a claim, we will fact check it.

Masyarakat Anti Fitnah Indonesia

Indonesia

cekfakta.com adalah sebuah sebuah proyek kolaboratif pengecekan fakta yang dibangun di atas API Yudistira oleh MAFINDO ( Masyarakat Anti Fitnah Indonesia ) dan bekerja sama dengan beberapa media online yang tergabung di AJI ( Aliansi Jurnalis Independen ) dan AMSI ( Asosiasi Media Siber Indonesia ) serta didukung oleh Google News Initiative dan Internews serta FirstDraft. cekfakta.com pertama kali diluncurkan di acara ‘Trusted Media Summit 2018’ yang diadakan di Jakarta pada Sabtu, 5 Mei 2018 setelah penandatangan MOU oleh 22 Pemred dan Ketua Mafindo.

teyit.org

Turkey

teyit.org is working to ensure that internet users can access correct information by verifying in many areas from widely known mistakes, suspicious information on the agenda of social media, claims brought up by the media, or urban legends.

Efecto Cocuyo Chequea

Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)

We are an independent Venezuelan media, which uses all its platforms for the free exercise of journalism and access to information.

African Fact-Checking Alliance (AFCA)

The African Fact-Checking Alliance (AFCA) is a network of media and civil society organizations that work to counter misinformation. The network supports fact-checking missions to debunk dangerous content, including conspiracy theories and misinformation.

MediaBiasFactCheck

Media Bias/Fact Check (MBFC), founded in 2015, is an independent online media outlet.

Annir Initiative

Libya

Annir is a non-partisan digital initiative specialized in raising awareness about Media & Information Literacy and Digital Safety.

Doble Check

University of Costa Rica

Doble Check is a public discourse auditing project financed by the University of Costa Rica and which operates as a project affiliated with Radio Stations UCR.

Snopes

United States of America (the)

When misinformation obscures the truth and readers don’t know what to trust, Snopes.com’s fact checking and original, investigative reporting lights the way to evidence-based and contextualized analysis.

Namibia Fact Check

Namibia

Namibia Fact Check is an impartial initiative that aims to verify public statements and media reports.

Latam Chequea

Latin America

Faced with the “infodemic”, the spread of rumors and false content, Latin American checkers join forces to share the information we produce and, by joining forces, provide better information to our communities.

Newschecker

India

At Newschecker, it is our aim to limit and crackdown the spread of fake news in society.

Ethiopia Check

Ethiopia

Ethiopia Check debunks claims and exposes fake news using its platforms on Facebook (52,000 followers), Twitter (7,000 followers) and Telegram (34,000 followers).

Agence France-Presse (AFP) Fact Check

France

AFP Fact Check is a global digital verification service that tackles damaging misinformation on topics such as COVID-19 and elections.

Lead Stories

Lead Stories is an innovative fact checking and debunking website at the intersection of big data and journalism that launched in 2015.

VoxCheck

Ukraine

Provides fact checking, explainers, and analytical articles, especially on issues of economic reform in Ukraine.

Dubawa

Nigeria

DUBAWA is Nigeria’s independent verification and fact-checking platform, initiated by the Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism (PTCIJ) and supported by the most influential newsrooms and civic organisations in the country to help amplify the culture of truth in public discourse, public policy, and media practice.