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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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Conspiracy Debunking Conversations

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.

https://8cz637-thc.shinyapps.io/ConspiracyDebunkingConversations/
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.

https://github.com/dreamspace-academy/dreamspace-the-project-aisle
The Impact and Opportunities of Generative AI in Fact-Checking

The Impact and Opportunities of Generative AI in Fact-Checking

Washington state, USA

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

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.15985
Danes je nov dan

Danes je nov dan

Ljubljana

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

https://danesjenovdan.si/
Desgrabador

Desgrabador

Argentina

Voy a extraer por vos los subtítulos generados automáticamente por Youtube.

https://chequeabot.chequeado.com/desgrabador/
Chequeado's WhatsApp bot

Chequeado's WhatsApp bot

Latin America

Latin American fact-checking organization's Whatsapp bot to make it easier for people to ask for fact-checks

https://api.whatsapp.com/send/?phone=5491162704259&text&app_absent=0
Civic Signal

Civic Signal

Africa

CivicSignal is Code for Africa's AI/machine learning initiative, using large-scale media monitoring to map the content/creator landscape and underlying business models for disinformation profiteers. It uses MIT's Media Cloud software.

https://civicsignal.africa
Network Contagion Research Institute

Network Contagion Research Institute

NCRI has built its own proprietary platform that has played a critical role in the identification and forecasting of emerging threats that threaten the Economic, physical and social health of civil society.

https://ncri.io/about/
Botcheck

Botcheck

This project uses advanced machine learning techniques to detect propaganda accounts on Twitter.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/botcheck-me/
The Deepfake Lab

The Deepfake Lab

Discover how deepfakes work and the visual clues you can use to identify them. We are a group of communication designers that have created this project to demonstrate our research into making our own deep fake, and to communicate the signs you can spot to identify them.

https://deepfakelab.theglassroom.org/
Doublethink Labs

Doublethink Labs

Taipei City, Taiwan

Doublethink Lab was founded in 2019 to strengthen democracy through enhancing digital defenses. Our work focuses on researching malign Chinese influence operations and disinformation campaigns and their impacts via the digital tools and methodologies we have developed.

https://doublethinklab.org/
Cofacts

Cofacts

Taiwan (T'ai-wan)

Cofacts is a collaborative system connecting instant messages and fact-check reports or different opinions together.

https://cofacts.g0v.tw/
InVID Verification Plugin

InVID Verification Plugin

Europe

"Verification Swiss Army knife", including lookups of video clips to find them in context elsewhere

https://www.invid-project.eu/tools-and-services/invid-verification-plugin/
Aunt Meiyu

Aunt Meiyu

Taiwan (T'ai-wan)

A Taiwanese developer Carol created a chatbot called Aunt Meiyu on popular messaging app LINE. Aunt Meiyu is designed to combat disinformation circulated in private chat group, especially family chat groups

https://www.checkcheck.me/
Factmata

Factmata

114 Whitechapel High St. London E1 7PT

Empowering everyone with a better understanding of content.

https://factmata.com/