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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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Chequeo Colectivo

Argentina

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

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.

trainings

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

reports

WhatsApp Third Party Fact-Checkers

San Francisco

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

Logically

London

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

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.

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

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

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

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)

A.N.C.I.R. Misinfo

Africa

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

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.

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

Initiative for Media Freedom

Philippines (the)

The Initiative for Media Freedom (IMF) is a five-year program implemented by Internews and funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

Disinfo Defense League Policy Platform

Media Democracy Fund, Connecticut Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC, USA

The Disinfo Defense League Policy Platform is a series of legislative, executive, and international recommendations addressing disinformation.

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.

Mafindo

Indonesia

Served as a center for clarification of issues suspected to be hoaxes.

Newsguard

"Sponsored partly by Microsoft, Newsguard is a plugin for browsers such as Chrome, Mozilla, and Microsoft's Edge that validates news websites for users based on 9 journalistic integrity criteria." - Counteringdisinformation.org

extensions

Vishvas News

New Delhi

Vishvas News is an information fact-check and verification portal that is committed to debunking fake news and misinformation in Hindi, English and 10 different Indic languages.

MediaWise

The mission of MediaWise is to empower people of all ages to be more critical consumers of content online.

Malign Creativity: How Gender, Sex, and Lies Are Weaponized Against Women Online

One Woodrow Wilson Plaza 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW Washington, DC 20004-3027

Report striving to build awareness of the direct and indirect impacts of gendered and sexualized disinformation on women in public life, as well as its corresponding impacts on national security and democratic participation.

First Draft News resources

Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

These online courses, toolkits and resources are designed to help both journalists and the public build expertise and stay one step ahead of misinformation.

The Social Media Tracking Centre

Ghana

The monitoring of mainstream media (TV, radio, newspapers) has become the general norm in Africa. However, social media trends are harder to track and must be taken into account too. Penplusbytes therefore developed what it calls the Social Media Tracking Centre (SMTC).

Data Analytics for Social Media Monitoring

Washington, DC

This new guide is designed to help democracy practitioners better understand social media trends, content, data, and networks.

reports

InformNapalm

Ukraine (Ukrayina)

InformNapalm is a volunteer initiative emerged as a response to the Russian aggression in Ukraine in March 2014.

Latam Chequea

Latin America

Faced with the “infodemic”, the spread of rumors and false content, Latin American checkers join forces to share the information we produce and, by joining forces, provide better information to our communities.

MOE Election Observation

Colombia

The Election Observation Mission (La Misión de Observación Electoral, MOE) is an election observer group based in Colombia.

Social Media Hoax Slayer

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

In the last few years, the Social Media having a wider reach and faster, started polluting human minds by anti-social elements, wrong doers, pranksters etc.

PUSAD

Indonesia

PUSAD is a center for research on religion and democracy, they conduct research on hate speech and political disinformation.

hate speech

Radar

Brazil (Brasil)

Radar is a project which uses a combination of algorithms and manual research to find posts related to three themes over a wide variety of social media platforms in Brazil.