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The Citizen Browser Project
New York CityThe Markup, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates how the world’s most powerful institutions use technology to reshape society, today announced the development of The Citizen Browser Project—an initiative designed to measure how disinformation travels across social media platforms over time.
The Computational Propaganda Project
University of Oxford, 1 St Giles', Oxford OX1 3JS, UKSince 2012, the Programme on Democracy & Technology has been investigating the use of algorithms, automation, and computational propaganda in public life.
Tattle
India (Bhārat)Tattle is a group of technologists, researchers, journalists and artists. We build tools and datasets to better understand and respond to (mis)information trends on chat apps and regional language social media in India.
The Scribe reference API will list references based on usage and domain by language.
Within the disinformation and memory studies direction, the Institute for Development of Freedom of Information (IDFI) team is developing tools in several ways.
RESIST Counter Disinformation Toolkit
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)UK government toolkit to help support the dissemination of reliable, truthful information that underpins our democracy.
Regional Elections Administration and Political Processes Strengthening Program (REAPPS) I and II in Europe
Prague, CzechiaGoal is to promote cross-border learning and networking on a wide range of existing initiatives and to develop new capacity in political participation, government transparency and election administration.
rbutr tells you when the webpage you are viewing has been disputed, rebutted or contradicted elsewhere on the internet. Last used 2013.
Real 411
South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika)Real411 was created to give all citizens the power to report digital disinformation during the run up to the 2019 South African National and Provincial Elections.
PesaYetu
KenyaPesaYetu helps journalists, researchers and activists transform their work with in-depth county-specific information.
Tactical Tech’s Gendersec Training Curricula on “Hacking Hate Speech”
Brunnenstraße 9, 10119 Berlin, GermanyA training workshop curriculum on how to set up an online support network, create textual and visual counterspeech content, and deploy a counterspeech campaign.
Taiwan FactCheck Center
7F, No. 7, Lane 116, Guangfu South Road, Daan District, Taipei City 10694Taiwan’s first fact-checking center was jointly supported by the Taiwan Media Observation Education Foundation and the Quality Journalism Development Association.
Take Back The Tech! is a call to everyone, especially women and girls, to take control of technology to end violence against women.
Suara Masyarakat
MalaysiaSuara Masyarakat (Community Voices) is an Internews Europe project with local Malaysian partners on a 36-month project which aims to strengthen capacity of Malaysian media as the key actor in promoting good governance, transparency and accountability.
Sure and Share Center
Thailand (Prathet Thai)Thai News Agency’s ‘Sure andShare’ project, which encourages audience members to submit questions they have about content, rumours or stories circulating on the messaging app LINE.
The Trust Project, a consortium of top news companies led by award-winning journalist Sally Lehrman, is developing transparency standards that help you easily assess the quality and credibility of journalism.
Strengthening information on vaccine safety on Wikipedia
The Social Media Dashboard for the German 2021 Federal Election
Germany (Deutschland)A live dashboard analyzing the top German candidate's presence on multiple social media platforms.
The monitoring of mainstream media (TV, radio, newspapers) has become the general norm in Africa. However, social media trends are harder to track and must be taken into account too. Penplusbytes therefore developed what it calls the Social Media Tracking Centre (SMTC).
The Whistle
Israel (Jisra'el)Globes' Whistle examines public statements by public figures in order to provide readers and news consumers with an essential tool for their informed and critical examination.
Social Media Analysis Toolkit (SMAT)
Mozilla, East Evelyn Avenue, Mountain View, CA, USAThe conversations that trend on internet platforms shape our world in consequential ways, from who we vote for, to what news we read, to how we respond to a pandemic.
Was a prototype to help newsrooms crowdsource better information about the communities they serve, by Wikipedians
Siberkreasi
JakartaSiBerkreasi is a national movement to overcome the biggest potential threats that are being faced by Indonesia, namely the spread of negative content through the internet such as hoaxes, cyberbullying and online radicalism.
Snopes
United States of America (the)When misinformation obscures the truth and readers don’t know what to trust, Snopes.com’s fact checking and original, investigative reporting lights the way to evidence-based and contextualized analysis.
Sobrevivendo nas Redes (Surviving on the networks)
Brazil (Brasil)The "Surviving the Networks" project aims to strengthen civic culture in Brazil by offering information and strategies on how to better inform oneself in social networks.
The overall goal of the project is to safeguard the information integrity around the 2020 Parliamentary and 2021 Municipal elections in Georgia from disinformation, discrediting campaigns and other hostile information operations on social media.
Reveal
Luxembourg (Luxembourg, Letzebuerg)EU research project toto advance the necessary technologies for making a higher level analysis of social media possible. Ended 2017.
Sourceror was meant to leverage Wikipedia’s credibility data to improve media literacy and combat disinformation on the web. It's not clear if it launched.
Rooted in Trust
Internews Network, 15th Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USARooted in Trust is a pandemic information response plan countering the unprecedented scale and speed of the spread of rumors and misinformation about COVID-19. Operating in ten countries.
Cyber News Verification Lab
Hong KongThis project is an experiment in experiential learning through a cyber verification lab at the University of Hong Kong’s Journalism and Media Studies Centre.
Mnemonic is an NGO dedicated to archiving, investigating and memorializing digital information documenting human rights violations and international crimes.
The Technology & Social Change Group (TASCHA) at the University of Washington's Information School explores the role of digital technologies in building more open, inclusive, and equitable societies.
Memo 98
Slovak Republic (Slovensko)Memo 98 is a specialist media monitoring organization, with extensive experience of delivery media analyses on behalf of international institutions as well as technical assistance to civil society groups.
MOE Election Observation
ColombiaThe Election Observation Mission (La Misión de Observación Electoral, MOE) is an election observer group based in Colombia.
The mission of MediaWise is to empower people of all ages to be more critical consumers of content online.
Monitor do WhatsApp
Minas GeraisThis system shows the most shared image, video, audio, messaging, and URLs content across over 300 WhatsApp public groups daily.
Mediabugs was a service for correcting errors and problems in media coverage.
A report analyzing online spaces being weaponized to exclude women leaders and undermine the role of women in public life. It investigates gendered disinformation on Poland and the Philippines through Twitter data analyses.
Desconfío
ArgentinaDesconfío is an initiative launched by the Data Concepción team. It builds tools, produces research, and leads trainings.
Our mission is to ensure that information technology and social media play a proactive role in supporting democracy and human rights globally.
Connects academic research on disinformation threats and vulnerability to governments, CSOs, technology firms, political organizations.
Detector de Mentiras
ColombiaLa Silla Vacía is an informative and interactive medium for people interested in current Colombian politics.
Detektor Media
Ukraine (Ukrayina)Media Detector is a non-governmental organization established by Ukrainian journalists in January 2004.
The purpose of this handbook is to increase public communicators' awareness and understanding of information influence campaigns and develop their ability to respond.
Countering Misinformation about Armenia
Armenia (Hayastán)Monitoring of the selected talk shows, newspapers, electronic periodicals of both Russian and Armenian mass media to examine the media coverage, the possible labelling and targeted information conveyed to wide audiences in the result of the activity of Russian and Armenian news and information periodicals, TV talk shows and websites.
To combat what the World Health Organization has called an "infodemic" around Covid-19, BBC News Africa has launched a searchable library of fact-checks debunking popular myths and misinformation about coronavirus in Africa.
In 12 episodes, Jay Smooth teaches you Media Literacy! Based on an introductory college level curriculum, this series takes you through the history and psychology of media and gives you the skills to become more media savvy.
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