Projects - Media

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

How to Help: News You Can Do Something About

How to Help is a digital media startup that connects you with ways to do something about the day’s big news stories.

FactNameh

Islamic Republic of Iran (Īrān)

Factchecking Iranian public officials and media

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

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StoryCorps

80 Hanson Pl, Brooklyn, New York 11217, USA

To preserve and share humanity’s stories in order to build connections between people and create a more just and compassionate world

Choose Your Own Fake News game

Uganda

Choose Your Own Fake News is an interactive "choose your own adventure" game.

Digital Health Lab

San Francisco

At Meedan’s Digital Health Lab we are researching, designing and testing a digital response framework for addressing health misinformation online, centered around accessibility and equity.

Digital Methods Initiative Twitter Capture and Analysis Toolset (DMI-TCAT)

Digital Methods Initiative - Twitter Capture and Analysis Toolset

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Fakenews.rs

FakeNews Tragač vaš je saveznik u borbi protiv lažnih vesti. Čitajte o najnovijim dezinformacijama i prijavite lažne vesti za dalju analizu.

Le Drenche

Paris

Confronting opposite opinions to fight filter bubbles

TRACKBACK

BuzzFeed, North Highland Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, USA

BuzzFeed News's YouTube show fighting misinformation

Global Disinformation Index

We have designed a neutral, independent and transparent index to assess news websites on their risk of carrying disinformation.

Tools for Reporters

Digital upheaval also means a whole universe of tools and techniques are out there to make your reporting easier, faster, harder, smarter.

Istinomjer (Bosnia & Hertzegovina)

Bosnia & Hertzegovina Enver Sehovic 10/2 71000 Sarajevo, BiH

Istinomjer je inicijativa koja u svom fokusu ima promociju odgovornosti političkih partija koje participiraju u izvršnoj vlasti, kao i nosioca javnih funkcija koji imaju odgovornost prema građanima/kama BiH

Journocoders

We are a community group of journalists and others who work in the media, or are planning to in the future.

Aunt Meiyu

Taiwan (T'ai-wan)

A Taiwanese developer Carol created a chatbot called Aunt Meiyu on popular messaging app LINE. Aunt Meiyu is designed to combat disinformation circulated in private chat group, especially family chat groups

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Maidan Monitoring Information Center

Ukraine (Ukrayina)

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.

The Free Speech Project

3700 O St NW, Washington, DC 20057, USA

The Free Speech Project at Georgetown University works to document and analyze the ways Free Speech is threatened in the United States through its flagship enterprise, the Free Speech Tracker, an online tool for monitoring Free Speech challenges and controversies in education, civil society, and government.

Factmata

114 Whitechapel High St. London E1 7PT

Empowering everyone with a better understanding of content.

HealthTools

Kenya

HealthTools gives citizens localised answers to everyday health challenges via SMS and the web to help the mwananchi get the best medical care. Data is from reputable official sources, with additional crowd verification

Good health and well-being

Suffragetto game

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Players take on the role of suffragettes trying to occupy the House of Commons, or police officers trying to break up the protest.

Fake News Hong Kong

Hong Kong

This website collects and verifies fake news reports.

Change my View

A place to post an opinion you accept may be flawed, in an effort to understand other perspectives on the issue. Enter with a mindset for conversation, not debate.

Reddit

Block By Block Minecraft participatory planning workshops

UN Habitat, Beirut, Lebanon

Did you know that you can use Minecraft for more than a simple fun? Learn about great Block by Block initiative for community participation in urban design.

NY Times pilot tests journalism action

The New York Times beta Android app appears to be experimenting with a GoFundMe link to help readers touched by a story give back. Newspapers have run fundraising drives for local residents for years,...

Fake it to make it

Create your own (fake) news empire by playing Fake It To Make It, a simulation-style, social-impact game about how fake news is created and distributed for a profit.

Bury me my love

Bury me, my Love tells Nour’s story as she flees Syria and tries to reach Europe. But why did the young woman decide to leave?

Streetwyze

The Streetwyze app is the world’s first neighborhood navigator powered by local knowledge.

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Northwestern University Local News Initiative

Northwestern University, Campus Drive, Evanston, IL, USA

With local journalism in crisis, Northwestern University has assembled a team of experts in digital innovation, audience understanding and business strategy. The goal: reinvent the relationship between news organizations and audiences to elevate enterprises that empower citizens.

Local Voices Network (LVN)

25 Kingston St, Boston

Developed by the non-profit Cortico, the Local Voices Network (LVN) is a unique physical-digital network designed to bring under-heard community voices, perspectives and stories to the center of a healthier public dialogue.

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.

Flourish! Local economies game

8 Victoria Embankment, London, EC4Y 0DS

We made a board game to discuss local economic policy ideas.

Decent work and economic growth

Solutions Journalism Story Tracker

The Solutions Story Tracker® is a curated, database of rigorous reporting on responses to the world's most pressing social problems.

Istinomer (Serbia)

ISTINOMER Toploska 22, 11000 Belgrade Serbia

Factchecking Serbian politics

Block'hood

Block’hood is a city building simulator video game that focuses on ideas of ecology, interdependence and decay.

Social Scraper

Ukraine (Ukrayina)

Social Media Scraper is a tool helping journalists and watchdogs to keep politicians accountable for the statements they make in social media.

The Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life

Chapel Hill, NC

The impact of the digital information environment — especially the influence of social media

iCivics

1035 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02141, USA

iCivics works to ensure every student in America receives a quality and engaging civic education and graduates from high school well prepared and enthusiastic for citizenship