Projects - Factchecking

Spinoza

The Spinoza project initially aims to create a tool for journalists based on generative artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance media coverage of climate change and ecological transition, all while relying on reliable sources.

Dokopalsya!

Russian Federation (the)

Dokopalsya! (which playfully means "got to the bottom of it" in Russian), leverages large language models to serve as a rapid fact-checking assistant in Russian. When users share claims or news snippets, the bot identifies key assertions and checks them against reliable sources, providing evidence-based verification with links to authoritative references.

Telegram

Spread the Facts Grant Program

Poynter Institute for Media Studies, 3rd Street South, St. Petersburg, FL, USA

To support fact-checking on WhatsApp, the International Fact-Checking Network is offering a new round of its Spread the Facts grant program in partnership with Meta to combat AI-generated misinformation.

GlobalFact

EDMO Fact-Checking Community

Florence

We Need Cooperation Among Fact-Checkers

European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO)

Florence

the EU’s largest interdisciplinary network to counter disinformation.

Facts and Fakes in video

Russian Federation (the)

Fact-checking video for Youtube and Rutube: displaying references to refutations, proofs and disputs of the facts contained in the video, as well as the video rating of the video and the overall channel rating.

YouTube

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

civic features

Hibrid.info

Prishtina, Kosovo

Kosovo factchecking project out of ADS nonprofit

Global Fact Check Fund

Poynter Institute for Media Studies, 3rd Street South, St. Petersburg, FL, USA

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

Chequeo Colectivo

Argentina

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

WhatsApp

Ellinika Hoaxes

Greece (Ellas, Ellada)

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.

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.

Cazadores de Fake News

Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

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.

Watchdog

Batticaloa, 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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Efecto Cocuyo Chequea

Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

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

Namibia Fact Check

Namibia

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

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.

DisinfoWatch

Canada

DisinfoWatch is a Canadian foreign disinformation monitoring and debunking platform.

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.

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.

Lead Stories

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

Learn to Discern (L2D) - Media Literacy Training

IREX’s Learn to Discern approach builds resilience to manipulative information by empowering those who engage with media and information to navigate it in a safe, critical, responsible, healthy, and empathy-driven way.

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Dogruluk Payi

Turkey (Turkiye)

Dogruluk Payi is a Turkish fact checking website

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.

Fact Crescendo

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Fact Crescendo is an independent, unbiased fact-checking website that is committed to bringing the fact behind every news, debunking mis-interpreted & hoax news on a daily basis on false, mis-informed, social media as well as mainstream media.

Ecuador Chequea

Quito, Ecuador

Data enriches public debate and therefore strengthens democracy. An informed society is capable of making conscious decisions.

Mafindo

Indonesia

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

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.

GhanaFact

Ghana

Ghana’s first full-time fact-checking organisation signatory to the International Fact-checking Network (IFCN) Code of Principles.

Factly

Hyderabad

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

Digit Eye

India (Bhārat)

Digiteye India is an independent digital news fact-checking venture by a small group of veteran journalists who came together to bring forth authentic facts behind daily news and claims being passed on as news, social media messages and views.

El Sabueso

Mexico (Estados Unidos Mexicanos)

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

Fact Check Initiative Japan

Japan (Nihon or Nippon)

FIJ is a non-profit organization for the promotion of Japanese fact-checking aimed at protecting society from mis/disinformation.

Ethiopia Check

Ethiopia (Ityop'iya)

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).

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.

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

ZimFact

Zimbabwe

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

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.

VoxCheck

Ukraine (Ukrayina)

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

Verify-Sy

Syria, Syrian Arab Republic (Suriyah)

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.

VERA Files Fact Check

VERA Files is a nonstock, nonprofit independent media organization.

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.