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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).
CivicSpace.tech guide to Disinformation, including its relevance to civic space, opportunities, risks, and case studies (2020)

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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.

RAND collection of Tools That Fight Disinformation Online

Profiles 82 tools for fighting disinfo

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

InfoActivismo

South America

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

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

Disinformation Toolkit

A guide by InterAction written for civil society organizations

reports

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

books

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.

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.

TikTok

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.

TurnBackHoax.ID

Indonesia

Indonesian Whatsapp hotline

Fight disinformation

Countering QAnon: Understanding the Role of Human Trafficking in the Disinformation-Extremist Nexus

A February 2021 report by Polaris, The Soufan Group, and Limbik

anti-trafficking

Brown Information Futures Lab

Brown University

Our lab is where technology, innovation, policy and community meet, one pilot at a time.

Global Disinformation Lab at UT Austin

Austin, TX

The Global DisInformation Lab (GDIL) was established in 2020 at the University of Texas at Austin to encourage collaborative interdisciplinary academic research on the global circulation of misinformation, and disinformation.

Information Futures Lab Fellows Program

Brown University

The Information Futures Fellowship is a novel opportunity for practitioners in public health, healthcare, community organizations, media, policy, design and other fields who are actively working on responses to the ongoing information crisis.

Troll Tracker / Twoops Tracker

Africa

Track the trolls & sock-puppets poisoning our democracies

X (Twitter)

African Digital Democracy Observatory Resident Fellows

Ghana

The African Digital Democracy Observatory (ADDO) is offering a series of seed grants and additional technical support for targeted research into how both state-affiliated and other lobbyist groups use influence/information operations and disinformation and targeted propaganda to subvert African democracies. The initial research grants focus on four countries: Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and Senegal.

A.N.C.I.R. Misinfo

Africa

A project investigating the stories and the data behind fake news in Africa

African Digital Democracy Observatory

Africa

ADDO is a coalition of investigative analysis + forensic research organisations that monitor how digital tools and civic technologies impact on the rights of African citizens

Global Disinformation Index research on Disinfo Ads

An ongoing series of reports about ad-funded disinformation

reports

Disinformation Pathways and Effects: Case Studies from Five African Countries

Cameroon (Cameroon, Cameroun)

Interviews with 90 respondents

reports

Disinformation and its discontents

OECD, Rue André Pascal, Paris, France

OECD podcast episode

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.

apps

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.

Communalytic

Communalytic is a computational social science research tool for studying online communities and discourse.

A Field Guide to “Fake News” and Other Information Disorders

A Field Guide to “Fake News” and Other Information Disorders explores the use of digital methods to study false viral news, political memes, trolling practices and their social life online.

Code of Conduct: Measures to Address Disinformation Intended to Cause Harm During the Election Period

South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika)

South Africa’s “Code of Conduct: Measures to Address Disinformation Intended to Cause Harm During the Election Period” (in draft form as of July 2020) is aimed at “every registered party and every candidate” with additional obligations under the code for how those parties and candidates must take appropriate recourse against any member, representative or supporter of that party or candidate who behaves in violation of the code.

ZimFact

Zimbabwe

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

Annir Initiative

Libya (Libiyah)

Annir is a non-partisan digital initiative specialized in raising awareness about Media & Information Literacy and Digital Safety.

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.

TrolleyBust

Ukraine (Ukrayina)

TrolleyBust is a service for tracking and blocking Internet trolls and other sources of anti-Ukrainian propaganda.

Liga Contra el Silencio

Colombia

We define ourselves as an alliance that involves the media, a central newsroom and a network of freelance collaborators.

TrollBusters

TrollBusters is an at-the-ready network of supporters to respond to women journalists’ reports of online harassment by providing positive counterspeech.

Social Media Analysis Toolkit (SMAT)

Mozilla, East Evelyn Avenue, Mountain View, CA, USA

The conversations that trend on internet platforms shape our world in consequential ways, from who we vote for, to what news we read, to how we respond to a pandemic.

FactsMatterNg

Nigeria

The ICFJ Knight Fellowship programme in Nigeria is working with influencers and media partners to combat misinformation and fake news in the Nigerian digital media space.

The Pledge for Election Integrity

"Pledge signed by political parties/individuals committing to transparency and preserving election integrity by avoiding disinformation and attacks by third parties." - Counteringdisinformation.org

The Computational Propaganda Project

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

Since 2012, the Programme on Democracy & Technology has been investigating the use of algorithms, automation, and computational propaganda in public life.

BlackBird.AI

"Blackbird.AI views the spread of disinformation as one of the world’s largest threats to national security, business, and the public as a whole." - Counteringdisinformation.org

Captain Fact

CaptainFact is a collaborative fact-checking tool for YouTube videos.

Ecuador Chequea

Quito, Ecuador

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

El Sabueso

Mexico (Estados Unidos Mexicanos)

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

Rooted in Trust

Internews Network, 15th Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA

Rooted in Trust is a pandemic information response plan countering the unprecedented scale and speed of the spread of rumors and misinformation about COVID-19. Operating in ten countries.

Be Internet Awesome

Mountain View, CA, USA

Google's digital media literacy training for kids

youth

Bolivia Verifica

Bolivia (Buliwya / Wuliwya / Volívia)

Bolivia Verifica is a non-profit, non-political digital media that is dedicated to the verification of false news and public discourse to fight against disinformation and improve democratic participation.