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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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An open technical standard providing publishers, creators, and consumers the ability to trace the origin of different types of media.
MisinfoDay is an annual event co-hosted by the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public (CIP) and Washington State University’s Edward R. Murrow College of Communication.
The Internet Archive has started to surface some of these annotations for Wayback Machine users.
"The aim of The Good Information Project is to claim back and own the inform in information."
Take on Fake debunks claims you’ve seen or shared online to show you how to stay informed. Host Hari Sreenivasan follows the Internet rabbit hole of misinformation, reading beyond a single headline to find credible sources to uncover the truth.
Discover how deepfakes work and the visual clues you can use to identify them. We are a group of communication designers that have created this project to demonstrate our research into making our own deep fake, and to communicate the signs you can spot to identify them.
a free online game funded by the State Dept. that helps fight #disinformation, now playable in 6 different languages
Tech, Media & Democracy course
New York, NYThrough a unique pan-university course, NYC universities partner to explore challenges and opportunities & build prototypes at the intersection of technology, media and democracy
FactStream
The Washington Post, K Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USAThe FactStream iOS app brings together the work of three of the largest U.S. fact-checking organizations, The Washington Post, PolitiFact and FactCheck.org.
MediaReview
Duke University, Durham, NC, USAA sibling to ClaimReview that allows fact-checkers to identify whether a video or image has been manipulated.
Community Notes (formerly Birdwatch)
San FranciscoTwitter's community-based approach to misinformation
Centre for Information Resilience
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)CIR is a non-profit social enterprise dedicated to countering disinformation & exposing human rights abuses.
The Reporters’ Lab
Duke University, Durham, NC, USAThe Reporters’ Lab is a center for journalism research in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. Our core projects focus on fact-checking, but we also do occasional research about trust in the news media and other topics.
(Mis)informed
St. Petersburg, Florida, USAThe International Fact-Checking Network is releasing a limited-run podcast about fact-checking and fake news.
The Disinfo Defense League (DDL) is a distributed national network of organizers, researchers and disinformation experts disrupting online racialized disinformation infrastructure and campaigns that deliberately target Black, Latinx, Asian American/Pacific Islander and other communities of color.
Report: RT and Sputnik's Role in Russia's Disinformation and Propaganda Ecosystem - United States Department of State
Russian Federation (the)US State Department report on state-funded misinformation
Doublethink Labs
Taipei, TaiwanDoublethink Lab was founded in 2019 to strengthen democracy through enhancing digital defenses. Our work focuses on researching malign Chinese influence operations and disinformation campaigns and their impacts via the digital tools and methodologies we have developed.
Journal of Online Trust and Safety
Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, USAThe Journal of Online Trust and Safety is a cross-disciplinary, open access, fast peer-review journal that publishes research on how consumer internet services are abused to cause harm and how to prevent those harms.
211CHECK
Juba211CHECK is a fact-checking and information verification platform that works on countering misinformation and disinformation in South Sudan.
A collection of easy to use resources for identifying misinformation and its psychological tricks
Chequeado
ArgentinaChequeado is a non-profit, non-partisan independent media organisation and Latin America's first fact-checking site.
Correctiv
EssenCorrectiv is a German non-profit newsroom that investigates injustices and abuses of power, and runs educational programs on journalism and media literacy.
Full Fact
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Full Fact is the UK's independent factchecking organisation
A game that puts you in the mindset of propagandists and agents promoting fake news, propaganda and hate-speech to help the user understand how fake news is made and promoted
Center for an Informed Public
The Information School, Mary Gates Hall, Northeast Grant Lane, Seattle, Washington, USATo resist strategic misinformation, promote an informed society, and strengthen democratic discourse.
Take back control of your ads. Keep your brand away from fake news, disinformation, and hate speech. Get an ad check.
The Reporters’ Lab maintains a database of global fact-checking sites.
Tella
Washington, DCTella is a secure documentation app for Android, making it easier and safer to produce verifiable evidence and collect data in challenging environments
Politifact
Duke University, Durham, NC, USAPolitiFact is a fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others on its Truth-O-Meter.
IoT Trustmark
BerlinThe Trustable Technology mark empowers consumers to make informed decisions & enables companies to prove their connected devices are trustworthy.
White paper analysis of the Internet Research Agency’s (IRA) activities to influence US politics
To meet this need and help ensure fact-checkers can continue doing their important work, this new initiative will provide legal support including connecting fact-checkers with lawyers, establishing a fund to help pay legal fees when pro bono support isn’t available, and publishing guides covering the main legal and non-legal threats that fact-checkers face and how they can be mitigated.
The Factual
San Mateo, California, USAThe hottest news topics, the most credible stories - across the political spectrum.
The Center for Countering Digital Hate's primary goal is to disrupt alliances between hate actors and political parties actors in digital spaces.
TechAndCheck Newsletter code
Duke University, Durham, NC, USACode to send out a daily tip sheet for fact checkers
The Institute for Data, Democracy, and Politics
2121 I St NW, Washington, DC 20052, USATo understand digital media’s influence on national dialogue and opinion, and to develop sound solutions to disinformation.
In the four years since fact-checkers around the world first gathered in London for the inaugural Global Fact-Checking Summit, a lot has happened
PesaCheck
East AfricaPesaCheck is a fact-checking initiative to verify the financial and other statistical numbers quoted by public figures across East Africa, supported by International Budget Partnership, and Code for Africa affiliates in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.
Colombia Check
ColombiaDigital, open and colaborative platform in which news and articles are fact-checked and published regularly for maintaining healthy debates and conversations in Colombia.
Trustable Technology mark
10969 Berlin, GermanyIt empowers consumers to make informed decisions & enables companies to prove their connected devices are trustworthy.
Digital Sherlocks 360/OS
RoundhouseChalk Farm Rd, Camden Town, London NW1 8EH, UK360/OS brings together journalists, activists, innovators, and leaders from around the world as part of our grassroots digital solidarity movement fighting for objective truth as a foundation of democracy.
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