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Journalism, storytelling, and other forms of interactive media are critical to civic engagement in democracies. Here we track those media and journalism tech projects that directly relate to citizens working to shift power in society.

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GOOD.is

News for the global citizen covering stories from business, environment, politics, art, design, culture, technology, education, urban issues and the latest news

News Provenance Project (NPP)

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

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.

Solutions Journalism Network

Solutions Journalism Network: We train and connect journalists to cover what’s missing in today’s news: how people are responding to problems.

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.

Arena Housing Project

Open collaborative network for journalists and other researches, experts and engaged people working on housing across Europe

openDemocracy

openDemocracy

The Print House, 18 Ashwin Street, London, E8 3DL United Kingdom

Through reporting and analysis of social and political issues, we seek to educate citizens to challenge power and encourage democratic debate across the world.

Mapping LA

Mapping LA

Los Angeles, CA

This re­gion­al view is your portal to in­di­vidu­al maps and stat­ist­ics for 158 cit­ies and un­in­cor­por­ated places and 114 neigh­bor­hoods with­in the city of Los Angeles.

HateLab

Harnessing Data Science to Measure and Counter Hate Speech & Crime

Speakable / Action Button

Action Button lets you instantly #TakeAction on news that matters. Don’t just read the headlines, change them.

City Bureau

City Bureau

Chicago, IL

City Bureau is a nonprofit civic journalism lab based on the South Side of Chicago. We bring journalists and communities together in a collaborative spirit to produce media that is impactful, equitable and responsive to the public.

Media Cloud

Media Cloud

Cambridge, MA

Media Cloud is an open-source platform for media analysis.

Truthiness Collaborative

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

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

FactNameh

Islamic Republic of Iran (Īrān)

Factchecking Iranian public officials and media

StoryCorps

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

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

Digital Health Lab

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.

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

Confronting opposite opinions to fight filter bubbles

TRACKBACK

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.

Istinomjer (Bosnia & Hertzegovina)

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.

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.

The Free Speech Project

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.

Aunt Meiyu

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

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.

HealthTools

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

Suffragetto game

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

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.

Block By Block Minecraft participatory planning workshops

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,...

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.

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.

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.

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