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Disinformation campaigns by states, economic opportunists, and the misinformed themselves threaten to erode the common understandings, shared identities, and empirical bedrock that underlies our collective decisionmaking. While disinformation campaigns have used mass media to spread for many years, social media platforms have proven an exceptionally hospitable environment for the proliferation of falsehoods. Those looking to limit disinformation’s effect on society and bolster truth in media have likewise turned to technology to help keep up with the volume and precision of constantly evolving disinformation campaigns.

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FEMA Hurricane Rumor Response

The US government's emergency response department has taken to the internet to fight an unprecedented amount of information about 2024 hurricanes.

Detect Fakes

Detect Fakes

Chicago, IL

See for yourself how accurately you can identify AI-generated images

Rhetorical Labs

Rhetorical Labs

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

We are a research collective dedicated to providing public communication campaigns with rigorous, state-of-the-art tools for message development. Our methodology combines machine learning, crowdsourcing, and adaptive randomized controlled trials.

Conspiracy Debunking Conversations

An open database of conversations ChatGPT had with people who believe in a variety of conspiracy theories, which can be filtered by the efficacy of the conversation in changing beliefs.

Skeptic Reader

Skeptic Reader

Spain (España)

Your personal bullshit🤌 detector for the Internet.

Democracy Forward

Microsoft's program to "preserve, protect, and advance the fundamentals of democracy by safeguarding open and secure democratic processes, promoting a healthy information ecosystem, and advocating for corporate civic responsibility."

Weibo Community Notes feature (社区“附注”功能上)

Like X and YouTube, China's Weibo platform instituted community notes annotations to fight disinformation on the platform.

有据 (China Fact Check)

有据 (China Fact Check)

China (Zhong Guo)

China's first independent fact-checker, verifying international news

Misinformation Combat Alliance

The Misinformation Combat Alliance is a cross-industry alliance bringing companies, organizations, institutions, industry associations and government entities together to combat misinformation and fake news and create an enlightened and informed society.

The Project AISLE

The Project AISLE

Batticaloa, Sri Lanka

Project AISLE is a hate speech monitoring tool in Tamil and Sinhala developed using Artificial Intelligence.

Hashtag Generation

Hashtag Generation

Colombo, Sri Lanka

Hashtag Generation is a non profit organization and movement led and run by a group of young tech-savvy, socially conscious Sri Lankans advocating for the meaningful civic and political participation of youth, especially young women and young people from minority groups

Get the Trolls Out

A campaign that harnesses the power of social media to disseminate innovative media outputs and generate dialogue in order to deliver a powerful counter-narrative against diverse forms of hate speech, including antisemitism, anti-Muslim hate, anti-Christian sentiment.

BridgeBot

Meet BridgeBot, a new chatbot which helps social media users bridge differences and build trust and understanding online.

 Digital Community Stewards Online Course

A training program for digital community stewards (online group moderators and admins) focused on building social cohesion in online communities, and creating inclusive, engaging, and safe digital experiences within their online groups.

The Impact and Opportunities of Generative AI in Fact-Checking

Paper by ROBERT WOLFE and TANUSHREE MITRA, University of Washington, United States

Democracy Capital

Advising, Educating, Investing and Partnering in solutions that promote ecosystems we can trust…through information integrity, quality, and transparency (IQT)

EU Elections Information Sharing and Analysis Centre

Alliance4Europe is operating an information sharing and analysis centre (ISAC), to identify and defend against disinformation threats and to enable scalable collaboration with those who want to defend democracy.

The Internet & Democracy Initiative

The Internet & Democracy Initiative will study problems that have widespread information and social media implications.

EU Transparency Centre Reports Archive

Tech company signatories of the voluntary EU Code of Practice on Disinformation report relevant data on disinformation on their platforms

European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO)

the EU’s largest interdisciplinary network to counter disinformation.

Turning Wikimedia into a news-site credibility tool

My new WikiCred project is aimed at making Wikidata/Wikipedia a more effective indicator of news-site credibility.

ElectoFacts

ElectoFacts is a resource that Canadian electors can use to easily check whether information they come across about Canada's federal electoral process is true or not.

The ComProp Navigator

The ComProp Navigator

University of Oxford, 1 St Giles', Oxford OX1 3JS, UK

This is an online resource guide for civil society groups looking to better deal with the problem of disinformation.

Facts and Fakes in video

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.

LupaMundi

LupaMundi

Brazil (Brasil)

O LupaMundi - Mapa das Legislações sobre Desinformação é um mapa interativo que apresenta as leis nacionais de combate à desinformação.

Say No to Disinfo

Say No To Disinfo mines peer-reviewed empirical studies for insight on the most effective way to combat any information threat.

Foundation The London Story

Diaspora monitoring disinformation and hate speech in India and advocating for human rights.

Mercenários Digitais

Brasil: Investigação transnacional revela empresas de marketing político ligadas à extrema direita

Encrypted Messaging Applications and Political Messaging: How They Work and Why Understanding Them is Important for Combating Global Disinformation

This report provides an overview of how various EMAs work, a review of popular EMAs and their notable features (LINE, Signal, Telegram, Viber, WhatsApp, and WeChat), and examples of how EMAs have been used for political manipulation

#teyitpedia

#teyitpedia

Turkey (Turkiye)

dijitalde eleştirel düşünme becerileri kazandıran, yanlış bilgi sorununa dikkat çeken, teyitçi gibi düşünmeye katkı sağlayan yazılardan oluşur.

Metamorphosis Foundation

Metamorphosis Foundation

Skopje, North Macedonia

Metamorphosis Foundation works on strengthening the awareness and capacity of citizens and civil society to assume their fullest possible role as activists for democracy, while supporting government to fulfill its democratic role in serving society.

European Media and Information Fund

The EMIF is entrusted with an objective of public interest to support fact-checking and media literacy initiatives, as well as fundamental research projects, with a view to addressing the phenomenon of online disinformation in Europe and promoting a more resilient and fact-based digital information ecosystem.

NETTZ

NETTZ

Berlin

Hate speech on the internet has regrettably become an increasingly pressing social issue. The NETTZ network aims to confront the current trend by supporting moral courage on digital media as well as cultivating a positive debate and opinion culture on the web.

ERSILIA

ERSILIA

Paris, France

Ersilia Est Une Plateforme Collaborative D’éducation À L’image

EUfactcheck.eu

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.

Propastop

Propastop

Estonia (Eesti Vabariik)

Propastop is a blog aimed at cleaning Estonia from propaganda, false information and media lie. The blog is run by volunteers.

Google Factcheck Explorer

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

GlobalFact 10 Awards

GlobalFact 10 Awards

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

We are excited to invite you to cast your vote for this year's awards, where we celebrate exceptional work in fact-checking.

Hibrid.info

Hibrid.info

Prishtina, Kosovo

Kosovo factchecking project out of ADS nonprofit

International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE)

International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE)

Switzerland (Schweiz, Suisse, Svizzera)

A new, independent global science organization committed to providing actionable scientific knowledge about threats to the world’s information environment

Twitter Brigade

Astroturfing research. We spent the second half of 2020 analysing 24 fake Twitter profiles that published divisive or hostile content and were regularly mentioned or retweeted by Slovenian right-wing politicians.

Danes je nov dan

Ljubljana, Slovenia based civic tech NGO, focusing efforts on (digital) political participation, open data, transparency, and public institutional oversight.

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