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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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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.
Disinfo Defense League
Media Democracy Fund, Connecticut Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC, USAThe 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.
RT and Sputnik's Role in Russia's Disinformation and Propaganda Ecosystem
Russian Federation (the)US State Department report on state-funded misinformation
Doublethink Labs
Taipei City, 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.
Doublethink Lab's Disinfo Walkthrough
Taiwan (T'ai-wan)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.
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
Full Fact
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Full Fact is the UK's independent factchecking organisation
The Reporters’ Lab maintains a database of global fact-checking sites.
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.
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.
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
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.
TechAndCheck Newsletter code
Duke University, Durham, NC, USACode to send out a daily tip sheet for fact checkers
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.
Vistinomer
North Macedonia (Severna Makedonija)Holds you Accountable! Macedonian fact-checking outlet
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.
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.
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.
From fake news to chaos! How bad are you? Get as many followers as you can.
Dr.Message 防詐達人
Taiwan (T'ai-wan)which 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
Faktograf
Croatia (Hrvatska)Croatian media specializing in fact checking, that is, verifying the factual accuracy of claims in public space.
Cofacts
Taiwan (T'ai-wan)Cofacts is a collaborative system connecting instant messages and fact-check reports or different opinions together.
InVID Verification Plugin
Europe"Verification Swiss Army knife", including lookups of video clips to find them in context elsewhere
Right Richter
Washington, DCSee what's happening in Right Wing media from the safety of your inbox.
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.
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