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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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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.

Check My Ads

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

Database of fact-checking groups around the world

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

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

apps

The Disinformation Report

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

reports

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

The Factual

San Mateo, California, USA

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

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.

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

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

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.

Trustable Technology mark

10969 Berlin, Germany

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

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.

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!

LINE

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.

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

reports

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.

LINE

Right Richter

Washington, DC

See what's happening in Right Wing media from the safety of your inbox.

newsletters

InVID Verification Plugin

Europe

"Verification Swiss Army knife", including lookups of video clips to find them in context elsewhere

extensions

Misinfocon

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, USA

The 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 States

For 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.

News Provenance Project (NPP)

New York Times Building, 8th Avenue, New York, NY, USA

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.

Right To Be (formerly Heartmob)

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.

HateLab

Harnessing Data Science to Measure and Counter Hate Speech & Crime

Ctrl Alt Right Delete

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

Truthiness Collaborative

3502 Watt Way, ASC 104 Los Angeles, CA 90089-0281

To advance research and engagement around the misinformation, disinformation, propaganda and other challenges to discourse fueled by our evolving media and technology ecosystem