Projects - Fight disinformation

Danes je nov dan

Ljubljana

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

Construction of Positive Narratives Training

In this course, you will learn how stories and narratives make disinformation popular and credible and how to counter dangerous beliefs and attitudes.

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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.

Pinterest Climate Disinformation Policy

San Francisco

Our new policy makes Pinterest the only major digital platform to have clearly defined guidelines against false or misleading climate change information, including conspiracy theories, across content and ads.

Audible reckoning: How top political podcasters spread unsubstantiated and false claims

Washington, DC

Brookings report: Using a combination of analytical methods – including natural language processing, machine learning, and manual classifying – this research provided the first overarching assessment of the role that popular political podcasting plays in spreading unsubstantiated and false claims.

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Civic Listening Corps

Washington, DC

The CLC is a volunteer network of individuals trained to monitor for, critically evaluate, and report misinformation on diverse topics central to our civic life: voting, elections, public health, civil rights, and other important issues.

Algorithmic Transparency Institute

Washington, DC

The Algorithmic Transparency Institute builds technology, gathers data, and generates insights to support research, journalism, and advocacy organizations.

Junkipedia

Washington, DC

Junkipedia is designed to centralize the collection of problematic content so that everyone with a stake in solving this problem can benefit from a shared understanding of what threats exist and how to respond to them.

Veri.FYI

Prototype - Enter a URL to detect fake news websites at scale.

Iffy Index of Unreliable Sources

United States of America (the)

The goal is to give researchers a more complete, current, and accurate dataset of sites that spread mis/disinformation, which will lead to more accurate disinformation research.

The Starling Lab Journalism Fellowship

California

The Starling Lab, a research center anchored at Stanford University’s School of Engineering and the University of Southern California’s Shoah Foundation, has developed a ground-breaking framework to combat mis/disinformation by tracking the provenance of digital content through the use of open-source tools, best practices and case studies designed to help reduce information uncertainty.

Misinformation exposure

Misinformation exposure scores measure how much the politicians and public organizations you follow tend to lie (based on fact-checking their claims by PolitiFact).

X (Twitter)

Disinfo Matters

We’re looking beyond fake news to examine how manipulation of narratives, rewriting of history and altering our memories is reshaping our world.

Institute for Rebooting Social Media

Berkman Center For Internet, Everett Street, Cambridge, MA, USA

We are a three-year research initiative addressing social media’s most urgent problems, including misinformation, privacy breaches, harassment, and content governance.

Los Desinformantes

Argentina

Los desinformantes es una serie de investigaciones sobre diferentes actores que han desinformado durante la pandemia.

An Unrepresentative Democracy: How Disinformation and Online Abuse Hinder Women of Color Political Candidates in the United States

Washington, DC

A report by Center for Democracy & Technology

Misinformation Amplification Analysis and Tracking Dashboard

At the Integrity Institute, we are tracking how misinformation performs on platforms to measure the extent to which platforms are amplifying misinformation, and the extent to which they are creating an incentive structure that rewards lies and misinformation online.

Waterbear

Disinformation is threatening our ability to get credible facts. Built on our trusted technology stack, Waterbear helps you fight back.

Analysis and Response Toolkit for Trust

The Analysis and Response Toolkit for Trust or ARTT is focused on helping people engage in trust-building ways when discussing vaccine efficacy and other topics online.

Publi Ou Fake

Brazil (Brasil)

Uma cartilha em que trazemos ferramentas para que profissionais da área de marketing e publicidade possam navegar melhor e com mais confiança frente às complexidades da relação entre publicidade e desinformação.

Forum on Information & Democracy

Paris, France

Providing democratic safeguards to the global communication and information space

Crowdsourcing Aid: A Case Study of the Information Chaos During India's Second Covid-19 Wave

India (Bhārat)

A research paper

WhatsApp

factchecking-sites-scraper

India (Bhārat)

One of Tattle's goals is to make stories fact-checking content circulated on chat apps and social media more accessible to mobile first users

Info/tegrity Resources

NDI's Google Sheet of guides, trainings, and reports on digital disinformation

Viral Spiral

India (Bhārat)

Viral Spiral is an adaptive digital card game about sharing news on the Internet. The game reflects the ways and reasons misinformation is shared, letting players experience first hand the temptation to share fake news for their own gain and face the consequences of the harm it causes around them.

WhatsApp archiver

India (Bhārat)

The WhatsApp archiver consolidates chat files exported from different WhatsApp conversations into one database

Kosh

India (Bhārat)

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

PolétikaRD Chequeos

C. Josefa Perdomo 160 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Fact-checking in the Dominican Republic

Desgrabador

Argentina

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

Media Matters for Democracy Courses

Pakistan

Two courses - Understanding Citizen Journalism and Digital Disinformation and Journalistic Responsibilities

Chequeador

Argentina

El Chequeador es una plataforma educativa diseñada por el equipo de Chequeado para el desarrollo de cursos virtuales sobre Alfabetización Mediática e Informacional, desinformación, fact checking y otros temas relacionados.

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Chequeo Colectivo

Argentina

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

Digital democracy: analysis of the disinformation ecosystems on Telegram during the 2022 Brazilian electoral process

Brazil (Brasil)

Understand the role of the Telegram app in the dissemination of disinformation among Brazilian far-right groups and Analyse (online) radicalization process and (offline) political violence against democratic institutions, especially the Brazilian presidential election in October 2022

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WhatsApp Third Party Fact-Checkers

San Francisco

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

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Logically

London

Logically works to tackle the individual, institutional, and societal harms caused by misleading and deceptive online discourse.

RAND collection of Tools That Fight Disinformation Online

Profiles 82 tools for fighting disinfo

UNESCO Audio resources to counter disinformation

To contribute to countering disinformation on COVID-19 and promoting healthy behaviours, UNESCO has produced a series of audio messages that can be freely used by radio stations from around the world.

United Nations

Wikirumours

Canada

WikiRumours is a web-based database which enables geographically distributed teams to collaborate asynchronously on monitoring, verifying, and countering the spread of harmful rumours and misinformation.

Disinfo Database

Europe

EU vs Disinfo's database of over 12,000 samples of pro-Kremlin disinformation

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

WhatsApp

Disinformation Toolkit

A guide by InterAction written for civil society organizations

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SocialTIC

South America

SocialTIC es una organización sin fines de lucro dedicada a la investigación, formación, acompañamiento y promoción de la tecnología digital e información para fines sociales.Conoce nuestros proyectos, reflexiones y recomendaciones sobre infoactivismo, datos abiertos y seguridad digital

InfoActivismo

South America

A collection of tactics, cases, and guides to using information for activism

Interactive Media Bias Chart

A chart of thousands of media sources based on source reliability and surveys of perceived political biases

The Propagandists' Playbook: How Conservative Elites Manipulate Search and Threaten Democracy

United States of America (the)

How Conservative Elites Manipulate Search and Threaten Democracy, by Francesca Bolla Tripodi

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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.

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.

The Demography Project TikTok

Kenya

IDADI is our flagship data journalism project, in collaboration with The Infographics Studio, to disseminate, visualize and democratize official data on TikTok to allow Kenyans participate in decision making and enhance government accountability.