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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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Dr.Message 防詐達人
Taiwanwhich is true and which is false? Pass it to me and know right away! //臉書網頁優惠商品、免費Line貼圖、朋友傳的買一送一好康，到底哪些是真哪個是假？傳給我馬上知道!
Source Africa
AfricaIt is Africa’s premier repository for documents that the public need to help make more informed decisions, or that help civic watchdogs such as the media or social justice NGOs substantiate their reportage, or documents that have been suppressed or censored elsewhere.
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Openly Operated
535 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94105, United StatesThe free transparency certification
Factcheck.me
Berkeley, California, USAFactcheck.me tracks bot activity, amplified images, and viral links.
The Fight Against Disinformation in the U.S.: A Landscape Analysis
Shorenstein Center at the Harvard Kennedy School, Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA, USAa map of the disinformation initiatives currently in play to undergird newsrooms and improve media literacy at this challenging moment for the free press
Cofacts
TaiwanCofacts is a collaborative system connecting instant messages and fact-check reports or different opinions together.
Faktograf
CroatiaCroatian media specializing in fact checking, that is, verifying the factual accuracy of claims in public space.
Right Richter
Washington, DCSee what's happening in Right Wing media from the safety of your inbox.
"Verification Swiss Army knife", including lookups of video clips to find them in context elsewhere
MisinfoCon is a global movement focused on building solutions to online trust, verification, fact checking, and reader experience in the interest of addressing misinformation in all of its forms.
International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN)
Poynter Institute for Media Studies, 3rd Street South, St. Petersburg, FL, USAThe International Fact-Checking Network is a unit of the Poynter Institute dedicated to bringing together fact-checkers worldwide.
WhatsApp Research Awards for Social Science and Misinformation
Menlo Park, California, United StatesFor this first phase of our program, WhatsApp is commissioning a competitive set of awards to researchers interested in exploring issues that are related to misinformation on WhatsApp.
The News Provenance Project seeks to diminish the spread of misinformation by empowering readers to make more informed, confident judgments about the news they see online.
CredCon
405 E 7th St, Austin, TX 78701, USA#CredCon is an ongoing two-day hackathon that considers the impact of technology on news and information sources online and explores themes such as trust, reliability, accuracy and credibility.
Join the movement to end online harassment! We’re fighting fire with water, and working step by step to assist people facing harassment, educate communities, and stop harassment online.
Harnessing Data Science to Measure and Counter Hate Speech & Crime
Truthiness Collaborative
3502 Watt Way, ASC 104 Los Angeles, CA 90089-0281To advance research and engagement around the misinformation, disinformation, propaganda and other challenges to discourse fueled by our evolving media and technology ecosystem
Ctrl Alt-Right Delete is a weekly newsletter devoted to understanding how the far right operates online and developing strategies and tactics to fight back
Choose Your Own Fake News is an interactive "choose your own adventure" game.
We have designed a neutral, independent and transparent index to assess news websites on their risk of carrying disinformation.
Digital Health Lab
San FranciscoAt Meedan’s Digital Health Lab we are researching, designing and testing a digital response framework for addressing health misinformation online, centered around accessibility and equity.
Istinomjer (Bosnia & Hertzegovina)
Bosnia & Hertzegovina Enver Sehovic 10/2 71000 Sarajevo, BiHIstinomjer je inicijativa koja u svom fokusu ima promociju odgovornosti političkih partija koje participiraju u izvršnoj vlasti, kao i nosioca javnih funkcija koji imaju odgovornost prema građanima/kama BiH. Cilj mu je da politički i javni diskurs u BiH što više usmjeri ka promociji političke odgovornosti kao temeljnog principa demokratije.
TRACKBACK
BuzzFeed, North Highland Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, USABuzzFeed News's YouTube show fighting misinformation
Aunt Meiyu
TaiwanA Taiwanese developer Carol created a chatbot called Aunt Meiyu on popular messaging app LINE. Aunt Meiyu is designed to combat disinformation circulated in private chat group, especially family chat groups
Maidan Monitoring Information Center is a non-government non-profit civic organization that cares for societal security in Ukraine, which is achieved through public dialogue, improving the culture of communication and reducing the level of violence in society.
Factmata
114 Whitechapel High St. London E1 7PTEmpowering everyone with a better understanding of content.
Cofact Thailand
Bangkok, ThailandFight Misinformation in Thailand with Chatbot Fact-Checking
Stowarzyszenie Demagog
Katowice, PolandDemagog Association is Poland's first factchecking organization. It's main aim is the improvement of the quality of the public debate through unbiased and reliable information.
The Sentinel Project
TorontoFounded in 2008, the Sentinel Project is a Canadian non-profit organization that assists communities threatened by mass atrocities worldwide through direct cooperation with the people in harm’s way and the innovative use of technology.
MyGoPen
Taiwana convenient place to verify that our efforts are to have hope in the future cleaner network environment, cultivate hope we have a verification message can alert attitude Instead of sharing information. // 對於 MyGoPen 的起源是希望協助長輩或有資訊落差的朋友們，有個方便查證的地方，我們的努力是希望未來能有更乾淨的網路環境，希望培養大家都有個可以警戒查證訊息的態度，而不是人云亦云的分享資訊。
Tech & Check Conference
Duke University, Durham, NC, USAAs part of its Tech & Check Cooperative, the Reporters’ Lab is serving as a hub for automated fact-checking to connect journalists and technologists around the world. The conference gave them an opportunity to demonstrate current projects and discuss the big challenges of automation.
Comprehensive collection of open verification tools and methods
The Dangerous Speech Project was founded in 2010 to study speech (any form of human expression) that inspires violence between groups of people – and to find ways to mitigate this while protecting freedom of expression.
“The Checkpoint tipline is primarily used to gather data for research, and is not a helpline that will be able to provide a response to every user.”
The Center for Informed Democracy and Social Cyber-Security (IDeaS)
5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USACarnegie Melon's center for disinformation, hate speech and extremism online
Each of our lectures will explore one specific facet of bullshit. For each week, a set of required readings are assigned. For some weeks, supplementary readings are also provided for those who wish to delve deeper.
Crosscheck
FranceCrossCheck is a collaborative journalism project that brings together newsrooms across France and beyond to accurately report false and misleading claims.
The Fairwork Foundation is a project that is working to set and measure standards in the platform economy.
This project seeks to facilitate the co-creation of prototypes that can advance digital transparency and enable agency in the world's public spaces.
Maldita App
SpainMaldita.es presenta la primera aplicación móvil capaz de avisarte cuando entras en una web con desinformación // a mobile application to fight against misinformation and promote transparency through the confirmation of facts and journalistic techniques
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