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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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RAND collection of Tools That Fight Disinformation Online

Profiles 82 tools for fighting disinfo

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

Disinfo Database

Europe

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

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

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

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 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

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.

TikTok

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)

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

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.

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

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.

Europe and Eurasia Regional Election Management Body Working Group on Social Media, Disinformation and Electoral Integrity

IFES looks forward to the virtual launch of a working group that will focus on tackling the challenges presented by social media and disinformation to electoral processes across Europe and Eurasia.

What’s Crap on WhatsApp?

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

Podcast dedicated to unpacking the disinfo spreading on Whatsapp

UNESCO's online media & information literacy (MIL) course

Faced with the choice between privacy and safety on the Internet, between freely expressing themselves and the ethical use of information, the media and technology – women, men and young boys and girls need new types of competencies.

United Nations

Thwarting Disinformation and Promoting Quality Information in Haitian Media

Haiti

Internews’ Thwarting Disinformation and Promoting Quality Information in Haitian Media project will limit the impact of inflammatory rhetoric, false news and disinformation.

FactBar

Finland (Suomi)

The Digital Literacy Curriculum, focused on disinfo detection, was developed with the Finnish government for integration in schools, supported by the EU Parliament.

students

The Trust Project

The Trust Project, a consortium of top news companies led by award-winning journalist Sally Lehrman, is developing transparency standards that help you easily assess the quality and credibility of journalism.

The Vaccine Safety Project

Strengthening information on vaccine safety on Wikipedia

Wikipedia

Engaging Women in Politics in Uganda

Uganda

Organized an e-conference for over 150 women candidates for elected office in Uganda, with a focus on navigating social barriers to political participation, including misinformation and cyberbullying.

women

The Media Manipulation Casebook

Harvard Kennedy School, John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MA, USA

Case studies. The Media Manipulation Casebook is a digital research platform linking together theory, methods, and practice for mapping media manipulation and disinformation campaigns.

Agência Lupa

Brazil (Brasil)

The Magnifier is the first news agency in Brazil to specialize in journalistic technique known worldwide as fact-checking and was founded on November 1, 2015.

Sure and Share Center

Thailand (Prathet Thai)

Thai News Agency’s ‘Sure andShare’ project, which encourages audience members to submit questions they have about content, rumours or stories circulating on the messaging app LINE.

LINE

Media Matters for Pakistan

Pakistan

Media Matters for Pakistan is a web based initiative, designed to act as an informal watchdog over the mainstream media in Pakistan.

Putting Civic Online Reason In Civics Class

Stanford, CA, USA

The COR curriculum was developed by the Stanford History Education Group as part of MediaWise—a partnership of SHEG, the Poynter Institute, and the Local Media Association.

African Fact-Checking Alliance (AFCA)

Africa

The African Fact-Checking Alliance (AFCA) is a network of media and civil society organizations that work to counter misinformation. The network supports fact-checking missions to debunk dangerous content, including conspiracy theories and misinformation.

Beacon Project

Supports original research into disinformation vulnerability and resilience with public opinion research, analytical pieces, narrative monitoring, and mainstream and social media monitoring, both in house and in collaboration with local partners in Europe.

Centre for Democracy & Development Fact Check program

Real 411

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

Real411 was created to give all citizens the power to report digital disinformation during the run up to the 2019 South African National and Provincial Elections.