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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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Maidan Monitoring Information Center

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

Factmata

114 Whitechapel High St. London E1 7PT

Empowering everyone with a better understanding of content.

Fake News Hong Kong

This website collects and verifies fake news reports.

Stowarzyszenie Demagog

Stowarzyszenie Demagog

Katowice, Poland

Demagog 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.

Cofact Thailand

Cofact Thailand

Bangkok, Thailand

Fight Misinformation in Thailand with Chatbot Fact-Checking

The Sentinel Project

Founded 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.

Istinomer (Serbia)

Istinomer (Serbia)

ISTINOMER Toploska 22, 11000 Belgrade Serbia

Factchecking Serbian politics

MyGoPen

MyGoPen

Taiwan (T'ai-wan)

a 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

Tech & Check Conference

Tech & Check Conference

Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

As 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.

Dangerous Speech Project

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.

Proto's WhatsApp Checkpoint Tipline

“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)

The Center for Informed Democracy and Social Cyber-Security (IDeaS)

5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA

Carnegie Melon's center for disinformation, hate speech and extremism online

Calling Bullshit course

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

CrossCheck is a collaborative journalism project that brings together newsrooms across France and beyond to accurately report false and misleading claims.

Fairwork

Fairwork

University of Oxford, 1 St Giles', Oxford OX1 3JS, UK

The Fairwork Foundation is a project that is working to set and measure standards in the platform economy.

Maldita App

Maldita App

Spain (España)

Maldita.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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