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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.
Suggested reading:
- Matt Stempeck's research into how the Code for All network has advanced its strategies for fighting disinformation in different contexts around the world (2022)
- Digital Disinformation and Vote Suppression, The Brennan Center for Justice (2020)
- Virus Experts Aren’t Getting the Message Out Renée DiResta in The Atlantic (2020)
- Safeguarding Democracy Against Disinformation Report by the German Marshall Fund of the United States (2020)
- Browser Plug-ins That Spot Fake News Show The Difficulty Of Tackling The ‘Information Apocalypse’ Can software that spots Photoshopped images help stem the tide of misinformation? The Verge (2018)
- Can an AI Fact-Checker Solve India’s Fake News Problem? An Indian startup is using an AI tool to curb misinformation. But India poses unique challenges for the technology. Undark (2019)
- Factchecking, a Quartz Daily Obsession media collage (2019)
- Fake news and fact-checking: 7 studies you should know about, a roundup from Journalist’s Resource (2020)
- The children’s storyteller helping Taiwan sort fact from fiction, a helpful deep dive into disinfo-fighting tech (and misappropriation through national ‘fake news laws’) in Asia. Al Jazeera (2020).
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Development Initiatives
Development Initiatives Ltd., North Quay House, Quay Side, Temple Back, Bristol, BS16FL, UK
Kuwait Transparency Society
Al-Yarmouk, Block 4, First Street - Opposite Airport Road - Villa no. 26
European Network of Election Monitoring Organizations
Citizen's Association MOST, Vancho Mickov 18b, 1000 Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
Transparency International Mongolia
Bayanzurkh District, Peace Avenue 24, Building of Mercy Corps, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, 2nd floor, Rooms 206-207
Transparency International Australia
TI Australia TI Australia PO Box 41 Blackburn South VIC 3130 Australia
MediaJustice (formerly Center for Media Justice) is building a powerful grassroots movement for a more just and participatory media —fighting for racial, economic, and gender justice in a digital age.
Open Technology Foundation
Carnegie Mellon University - Australia 220 Victoria Square Adelaide, South Australia 5000
Transparency International Canada
Transparency International Canada inc., c/o Business Ethics Office - N211, Schulich School of Business, York University, 4700 Keele Street North York, ON M3J 1P3
United Cities and Local Governments
United Cities and Local Governments, World Secretariat, Carrer Avinyo, 15, 08002 Barcelona (Espana)
Trinidad and Tobago Transparency Institute (TI)
Unit 4-12, Building 7, Fernandes Industrial Centre, Laventivlle, Trinidad and Togabo
Kuali Foundation
Kuali Foundation Inc, Cyberinfrastructure Building, 2709 East Tenth Street, Bloomington, IN 47408
The International City/County Management Association
777 North Capitol Street NW, Suite 500, Washington, DC 20002
Transparency International Denmark
Transparency International Denmark, c/o MS, Faelledvej 12, 2200 Copenhagen N
Taxpayers for Common Sense
Taxpayers for Common Sense, 651 Pennsylvania Ave, SE, Washington, DC 20003
Muslims for Human Rights
Muslims for Human Rights, Haki House, off Mathenge Road, off Nyerere Avenue, PO Box 42261-80100, Mombasa, Kenya
Portal U
Niedersachsiches Ministerium fur Umwelt and Klimaschutz, Koordinierungsstelle PortalU, Archivstrasse 2, D-30169 Hannover, GermanyGerman Environmental Information Portal
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The Asian Network for Free Elections
105 Suthisarnwinichai Road, Huaykwang, Samsennok, Bangkok 10320 Thailand
The Liberty Institute
Liberty Institute, Julian L Simon Centre, C-2/13, Sahyadri, Plot 5, Sector 12, Dwarka, New Delhi 110 078 India
Netzwerk zur Forderung von Open Government
Open Data Network eV, Prenzlauer Allee 217, 10405 Berlin, Germany
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