Civic Tech Field Guide

Disinfo Portal

DisinfoPortal.org was the Atlantic Council's one-stop interactive online portal and guide to the Kremlin’s information war.

Disinformation campaign map

Washington, DC

A map visualizing the Atlantic Council’s DFRLab research on coordinated disinformation campaigns.

Efecto Cocuyo Chequea

Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

We are an independent Venezuelan media, which uses all its platforms for the free exercise of journalism and access to information.

El Sabueso

Mexico (Estados Unidos Mexicanos)

Animal Politico's fact-checking project. "Fooling a dog is difficult."

Emergent.io

Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

Emergent is a real-time rumor tracker.

DisinfoWatch

Canada

DisinfoWatch is a Canadian foreign disinformation monitoring and debunking platform.

Dogruluk Payi

Turkey (Turkiye)

Dogruluk Payi is a Turkish fact checking website

Doble Check

University of Costa Rica

Doble Check is a public discourse auditing project financed by the University of Costa Rica and which operates as a project affiliated with Radio Stations UCR.

Certified Content Coalition

The Certified Content Coalition certified trustworthy publishers that meet fundamental standards, giving consumers confidence in journalistic content.

Digital Polarization Initiative

The Digital Polarization Initiative, or “DigiPo”, is ADP's national effort to build student civic, information and web literacy by having students participate in a broad, cross-institutional project to fact-check, annotate, and provide context to the different news stories that show up in our Twitter and Facebook feeds.

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Digital Maturity Indicator

Melbourne VIC, Australia

The Digital Maturity Indicator (DMI) is a tool to help organisations measure, benchmark and improve their digital maturity across six key areas.

FightHoax

FightHoax offered a seamless way to extract actionable insights from news, allowing DSPs to increase the advertising ROI for their customers, through smart brand safety filters and deep contextual targeting.

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FakerFact

FakerFact was an Artificial Intelligence tool built to help us understand more about what we read.

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.

Female Journalists in New Media Report

Pakistan

A report analyzing how gendered, online harassment of female journalists translates in the physical world.

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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

Japan (Nihon or Nippon)

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

Fakeblok

A plug-in that flags fake news directly on social media to prevent you from clicking or sharing articles that intentionally mislead and disinform.

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Fakey

Indiana

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

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

Nigeria

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.

Fake Watch Africa

Malawi (Malaŵi)

The FakeWatch team monitor instances of possible fake news in the 2019 Malawi tripartite election campaign.

Facticious

News game based on sorting fake and real news

Factly

Hyderabad

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

Troll Factory

Finland (Suomi)

Troll Factory was developed by a team of experts at Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company.

UNESCO's online media & information literacy (MIL) course

Faced with the choice between privacy and safety on the Internet, between freely expressing themselves and the ethical use of information, the media and technology – women, men and young boys and girls need new types of competencies.

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Twitter Trails

a tool that allows members of the media to track the trustworthiness of stories shared on Twitter.

X (Twitter)

TaxClock Kenya

Kenya

TaxClock shows how public budget data can be used to help citizens better understand how governments spend our taxmoney.

TrustServista

Romania

TrustServista uses advanced Artificial Intelligence algorithms in order to provide media professionals, analysts and content distributors with in-depth content analytics and verification capabilities.

Tirto.id

Indonesia

Tirto.id translates the enlightening vision as the necessity of presenting clear, enlightening, insightful, contextual, deep, investigative, factual, supported by a lot of quantitative and qualitative data. - both secondary and primary, and can be accounted for.

TrolleyBust

Ukraine (Ukrayina)

TrolleyBust is a service for tracking and blocking Internet trolls and other sources of anti-Ukrainian propaganda.

Violence Against Women in Elections Online: A Social Media Analysis Tool

This tool offers an adaptable method to measure the gendered aspects and understand the drivers of this violence.

UYCheck

Uruguay (Republica Oriental del Uruguay)

Mission: Determine the veracity of the political statements that refer to specific data based on their contrast with reliable sources.

VERA Files Fact Check

VERA Files is a nonstock, nonprofit independent media organization.

TrollBusters

TrollBusters is an at-the-ready network of supporters to respond to women journalists’ reports of online harassment by providing positive counterspeech.

Thwarting Disinformation and Promoting Quality Information in Haitian Media

Haiti

Internews’ Thwarting Disinformation and Promoting Quality Information in Haitian Media project will limit the impact of inflammatory rhetoric, false news and disinformation.

CongoCheck

Congo (the Democratic Republic of the)

Congo Check est un média spécialisé dans la vérification des faits ou factchecking. Congo Check est un projet de l'ASBL/ONG Initiative des fact-chechekers du Congo, IFC.

Communalytic

Communalytic is a computational social science research tool for studying online communities and discourse.

Facebook Community Standards

Facebook, Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA, USA

Every day, people use Facebook to share their experiences, connect with friends and family, and build communities.

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Demtech Navigator

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

This is an online resource guide for civil society groups looking to better deal with the problem of disinformation. Let us know your concerns and we will suggest resources, curated by civil society practitioners and the Programme on Democracy and Technology.

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Comprova

Brazil (Brasil)

Comprova brings together journalists from 28 different Brazilian media companies to identify and explain rumors, fabricated content and manipulation tactics that might influence the 2018 presidential election campaign.

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Civil Network OPORA

01021 Kyiv

One of the leading non-governmental and non-partisan All-Ukrainian organizations for public oversight and advocacy in the field of elections, parliamentarism, education, joint ownership, energy efficiency, local self-government, as well as the comprehensive implementation of the principle of open data.

DARPA Computational Simulation of Online Social Behavior (SocialSim)

The goal of Computational Simulation of Online Social Behavior (SocialSim) is to develop innovative technologies for high-fidelity computational simulation of online social behavior.