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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.

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Hoaxy

Hoaxy

Indiana

Hoaxy is a tool that visualizes the spread of articles online.

Humble Media Genius

PBS youth media literacy effort. "This is a pilot – a test – with Ruff Ruffman videos looking at the red-hot topic of how kids can and should use media and technology."

hypothes.is

"The Hypothesis Project is a new effort to implement an old idea: A conversation layer over the entire web that works everywhere, without needing implementation by any underlying site."

Iffy.news

The index compiles news sites with low factual-reporting levels, as determined and documented by Media Bias/Fact Check.

Iffy Quotient

Iffy Quotient

University of Michigan, South State Street, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

The Iffy Quotient is a metric for how much content from “Iffy” sites has been amplified on Facebook and Twitter.

Image Verification Assistant

Image Verification Assistant

Greece (Ellas, Ellada)

We are a joint team of engineers and investigators from CERTH-ITI and Deutsche Welle, trying to build a comprehensive tool for media verification on the Web.

Mafindo

Mafindo

Indonesia

Served as a center for clarification of issues suspected to be hoaxes.

Social Media Hoax Slayer

Social Media Hoax Slayer

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

In the last few years, the Social Media having a wider reach and faster, started polluting human minds by anti-social elements, wrong doers, pranksters etc.

Hamilton 2.0

The Hamilton 2.0 dashboard, a project of the Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, provides a summary analysis of the narratives and topics promoted by Russian, Chinese, and Iranian government officials and state-funded media on Twitter, YouTube, state-sponsored news websites, and via official diplomatic statements at the United Nations.

Republic of Georgia's “Ethical Principles of Candidates of 28 October 2018 Presidential Elections”

The purpose of the “Ethical Principles of Candidates of 28 October 2018 Presidential Elections” was to establish guidelines for presidential candidates during their election campaigns.

GhanaFact

Ghana’s first full-time fact-checking organisation signatory to the International Fact-checking Network (IFCN) Code of Principles.

Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism

The Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT) brings together the technology industry, government, civil society, and academia to foster collaboration and information-sharing to counter terrorist and violent extremist activity online.

Global Network Initative

Global Network Initative

1325 G Street NW, Suite 500 Washington, DC 20005

GNI helps companies respect freedom of expression and privacy rights when faced with government pressure to hand over user data, remove content, or restrict communications.

First Draft News resources

First Draft News resources

Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

These online courses, toolkits and resources are designed to help both journalists and the public build expertise and stay one step ahead of misinformation.

Fakey

Fakey

Indiana

This game aims to teach media literacy and study how people interact with misinformation.

Fato ou Fake

Fato ou Fake

Brazil (Brasil)

Fato ou Fake is a news literacy project that vetted more than 700 pieces of information ahead of the elections.

FactsMatterNg

The ICFJ Knight Fellowship programme in Nigeria is working with influencers and media partners to combat misinformation and fake news in the Nigerian digital media space.

Factly

Factly

Hyderabad

Factly strives to cultivate civic participation and engaging citizens in accessing, understanding, and using important government data/information at various levels

Facebook Digital Literacy Library

Facebook Digital Literacy Library

United States of America (the)

The Facebook Digital Literacy Library is hosted by Facebook and currently includes learning resources made available by Youth and Media at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.

Fact Check Initiative Japan

Fact Check Initiative Japan

Japan (Nihon or Nippon)

FIJ is a non-profit organization for the promotion of Japanese fact-checking aimed at protecting society from mis/disinformation.

The Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA)

An open technical standard providing publishers, creators, and consumers the ability to trace the origin of different types of media.

MisinfoDay

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 Good Information Project

"The aim of The Good Information Project is to claim back and own the inform in information."

Take on Fake

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.

The Deepfake Lab

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.

Harmony Square

a free online game funded by the State Dept. that helps fight #disinformation, now playable in 6 different languages

Tech, Media & Democracy course

Through a unique pan-university course, NYC universities partner to explore challenges and opportunities & build prototypes at the intersection of technology, media and democracy

FactStream

FactStream

The Washington Post, K Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA

The 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

MediaReview

Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

A sibling to ClaimReview that allows fact-checkers to identify whether a video or image has been manipulated.

Public Editor

Public Editor

Berkeley, CA, USA

We’re an online community of critical thinkers vetting the most-shared news articles on the Internet.

Centre for Information Resilience

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

The Reporters’ Lab

Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

The 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.

Alt News

Alt News

Ahmedabad

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

(Mis)informed

(Mis)informed

St. Petersburg, Florida, USA

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

Disinfo Defense League

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.

Doublethink Labs

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.

Journal of Online Trust and Safety

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

211CHECK is a fact-checking and information verification platform that works on countering misinformation and disinformation in South Sudan.

Doublethink Lab's Disinfo Walkthrough

A collection of easy to use resources for identifying misinformation and its psychological tricks

Chequeado

Chequeado

Argentina

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

Correctiv

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

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

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