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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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Alt News

Ahmedabad

committed to fact-checking in a fair, transparent and non-partisan manner.

(Mis)informed

St. Petersburg, Florida, USA

The International Fact-Checking Network is releasing a limited-run podcast about fact-checking and fake news.

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Disinfo Defense League

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

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.

RT and Sputnik's Role in Russia's Disinformation and Propaganda Ecosystem

Russian Federation (the)

US State Department report on state-funded misinformation

Fight disinformation

Doublethink Labs

Taipei City, Taiwan

Doublethink 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.

LINE

Journal of Online Trust and Safety

Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, USA

The 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

Juba

211CHECK 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

Fight disinformation

Chequeado

Argentina

Chequeado is a non-profit, non-partisan independent media organisation and Latin America's first fact-checking site.

Correctiv

Essen

Correctiv is a German non-profit newsroom that investigates injustices and abuses of power, and runs educational programs on journalism and media literacy.

Factcheck.org

Washington, DC

A Project of The Annenberg Public Policy Center

Get Bad News

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

Center for an Informed Public

The Information School, Mary Gates Hall, Northeast Grant Lane, Seattle, Washington, USA

To resist strategic misinformation, promote an informed society, and strengthen democratic discourse.

Database of fact-checking groups around the world

The Reporters’ Lab maintains a database of global fact-checking sites.

Check My Ads

Take back control of your ads. Keep your brand away from fake news, disinformation, and hate speech. Get an ad check.

Factual

Romania

Primul site de fact-checking pe politicile și declarațiile publice din România.

Politifact

Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

PolitiFact is a fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others on its Truth-O-Meter.

IoT Trustmark

Berlin

The Trustable Technology mark empowers consumers to make informed decisions & enables companies to prove their connected devices are trustworthy.

Tella

Washington, DC

Tella is a secure documentation app for Android, making it easier and safer to produce verifiable evidence and collect data in challenging environments

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The Disinformation Report

White paper analysis of the Internet Research Agency’s (IRA) activities to influence US politics

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Fact-Checkers Legal Support Initiative

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, USA

Code to send out a daily tip sheet for fact checkers

Center for Countering Digital Hate

London

The Center for Countering Digital Hate's primary goal is to disrupt alliances between hate actors and political parties actors in digital spaces.

The Factual

San Mateo, California, USA

The hottest news topics, the most credible stories - across the political spectrum.

FactChecker.in

India (Bhārat)

FactChecker.in is India’s first dedicated Fact Check initiative.

Vistinomer

North Macedonia (Severna Makedonija)

Holds you Accountable! Macedonian fact-checking outlet

PesaCheck

East Africa

PesaCheck 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.

indigenous

The Institute for Data, Democracy, and Politics

2121 I St NW, Washington, DC 20052, USA

To understand digital media’s influence on national dialogue and opinion, and to develop sound solutions to disinformation.

Global Factchecking Summit

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

Colombia Check

Colombia

Digital, 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, Germany

It empowers consumers to make informed decisions & enables companies to prove their connected devices are trustworthy.

Check

San Francisco

a platform for collaboratively verifying news in real time

Digital Sherlocks 360/OS

RoundhouseChalk Farm Rd, Camden Town, London NW1 8EH, UK

360/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.

Bad News

From fake news to chaos! How bad are you? Get as many followers as you can.

Decodex

Le Monde's database of fake news websites

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!

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Source Africa

Africa

It 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.

free speech

Disinformation Lab at Shorenstein Center

Jobs in higher education. Faculty and administrative positions at colleges and universities. Updated daily. Free to job seekers.

Openly Operated

535 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94105, United States

The free transparency certification

Factcheck.me

Berkeley, California, USA

Factcheck.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, USA

a map of the disinformation initiatives currently in play to undergird newsrooms and improve media literacy at this challenging moment for the free press