Projects - Fight disinformation

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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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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.

South Asia Check

Kathmandu, Nepal

South Asia Check is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit initiative by Panos South Asia which aims to promote accuracy and accountability in public debate.

Detektor Media

Ukraine (Ukrayina)

Media Detector is a non-governmental organization established by Ukrainian journalists in January 2004.

Botometer

Botometer (formerly BotOrNot) checks the activity of a Twitter account and gives it a score based on how likely the account is to be a bot.

Mobile Information Literacy Project

The Technology & Social Change Group (TASCHA) at the University of Washington's Information School explores the role of digital technologies in building more open, inclusive, and equitable societies.

Siberkreasi

Jakarta

SiBerkreasi is a national movement to overcome the biggest potential threats that are being faced by Indonesia, namely the spread of negative content through the internet such as hoaxes, cyberbullying and online radicalism.

Snopes

United States of America (the)

When misinformation obscures the truth and readers don’t know what to trust, Snopes.com’s fact checking and original, investigative reporting lights the way to evidence-based and contextualized analysis.

Sobrevivendo nas Redes (Surviving on the networks)

Brazil (Brasil)

The "Surviving the Networks" project aims to strengthen civic culture in Brazil by offering information and strategies on how to better inform oneself in social networks.

Aggie

Aggie is an open-source social and online media aggregation tool designed specifically for monitoring events in real time.

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.

Rappler Fact Check

Rappler values truth-telling, facts, and factual reporting.

Mafindo

Indonesia

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

Aos Fatos

Daily, journalists from Aos Fatos follow statements by politicians and authorities of national expression, from different party colors, in order to verify if they are speaking the truth. For this, we adopted a formula with seven steps to carry out our checks.

Botcheck

This project uses advanced machine learning techniques to detect propaganda accounts on Twitter.

Detector de Mentiras

Colombia

La Silla Vacía is an informative and interactive medium for people interested in current Colombian politics.

Desconfío

Argentina

Desconfío is an initiative launched by the Data Concepción team. It builds tools, produces research, and leads trainings.

trainings

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.

Projeto Credibilidade

Brazil (Brasil)

The Trust Project develops transparency standards that help people assess the quality and credibility of journalism.

PubliElectoral

Buenos Aires

PubliElectoral is a technological tool of social interest that allows the collection of information related to electoral advertising on social networks without affecting the privacy of citizen users.

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.

MediaBiasFactCheck

Media Bias/Fact Check (MBFC), founded in 2015, is an independent online media outlet.

Polétika República Dominicana

C. Josefa Perdomo 160 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Polétika República Dominicana is a group of civil society organizations and movements that work in different areas, including: health, housing and habitat, taxation, citizen security, transparency, childhood and adolescence, gender, and municipality.

Pegabot

ITS Rio - Rua da Assembléia - Centro, Rio de Janeiro - State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

a tool that brings more transparency to the use of bots in Brazil.

Mnemonic

Mnemonic is an NGO dedicated to archiving, investigating and memorializing digital information documenting human rights violations and international crimes.

Dutch Code of Conduct Transparency Online Political Advertisements

Netherlands (Nederland, Holland)

This Code of Conduct was published to address the issues of election transparency and disinformation in the digital sphere.

OwlFactor

OwlFactor automatically calculates the quality of an article based on four factors

Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace

Paris

The Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace of 12 November 2018 is a call to come together to face the new threats endangering citizens and infrastructure.

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.

Credibility Coalition

San Francisco

The Credibility Coalition brings people together to develop common standards for information credibility.

Debunk.eu

Lithuania (Lietuva)

DEBUNK (demaskuok in Lithuanian) is a unique Lithuania-born initiative uniting competing media outlets, journalists, volunteers for a single purpose – to make society more resilient to orchestrated disinformation campaigns.

Ethiopia Check

Ethiopia (Ityop'iya)

Ethiopia Check debunks claims and exposes fake news using its platforms on Facebook (52,000 followers), Twitter (7,000 followers) and Telegram (34,000 followers).

NoBias

In the age of social media, many of us ambiently consume news by reading headlines and descriptions that appear in our news feeds.

extensions

Countering Information Influence Activities: A handbook for communicators

Sweden (Sverige)

The purpose of this handbook is to increase public communicators' awareness and understanding of information influence campaigns and develop their ability to respond.

guides

Centre for Democracy & Development Fact Check program

NATO Stratcom Communications Centre of Excellence

Riga, Latvia

NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence

Nepal Election Commission Code of Conduct

Nepal

Nepal’s Election Commission published their electoral code of conduct in 2015, which established standards and regulations for various institutions, persons, bodies and authorities.

Mozilla Web Literacy Framework

Mountain View, CA, USA

In today’s digital world, knowing how to read, write, and participate online is a foundational skill next to reading, writing, and arithmetic.

Myth Detector

Georgia (Sakartvelo)

Fact-checking and media literacy

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.

Journalism Trust Initiative

The Journalism Trust Initiative aims at a healthier information space.

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.

Linterna Verde

Bogotá

Linterna Verde do Research on the online public debate based on areas of interest. They seek to make our work accessible, useful and actionable for civil society, the media and government.

Liga Contra el Silencio

Colombia

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

Hamilton 2.0

The Hamilton 2.0 dashboard, a project of the Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, provides a summary analysis of the narratives and topics promoted by Russian, Chinese, and Iranian government officials and state-funded media on Twitter, YouTube, state-sponsored news websites, and via official diplomatic statements at the United Nations.