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The Santa Clara Principles On Transparency and Accountability in Content Moderation
United States of America 🇺🇸The Santa Clara Principles On Transparency and Accountability in Content Moderation cover various aspects of content moderation, developed by legal scholars and technologists based mostly in the United States, targeting social media companies with large use bases.
"Pledge signed by political parties/individuals committing to transparency and preserving election integrity by avoiding disinformation and attacks by third parties." - Counteringdisinformation.org
The Media Manipulation Casebook
Harvard Kennedy School, John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MACase studies. The Media Manipulation Casebook is a digital research platform linking together theory, methods, and practice for mapping media manipulation and disinformation campaigns.
O Detector de Fake News te permite detectar e denunciar Fake News, Click Baits e notícias Extremamente Tendenciosas, graças ao nosso robô, o Robinho.
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.
TrolleyBust
Ukraine (Ukrayina) 🇺🇦TrolleyBust is a service for tracking and blocking Internet trolls and other sources of anti-Ukrainian propaganda.
Internews’ Thwarting Disinformation and Promoting Quality Information in Haitian Media project will limit the impact of inflammatory rhetoric, false news and disinformation.
The Vaccine Safety Project
San FranciscoStrengthening information on vaccine safety on Wikipedia
teyit.org
Turkey (Turkiye) 🇹🇷teyit.org is working to ensure that internet users can access correct information by verifying in many areas from widely known mistakes, suspicious information on the agenda of social media, claims brought up by the media, or urban legends.
The Citizen Browser Project
New York City (NYC / New York, NY)The 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.
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.
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.
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.
Suara Masyarakat
Malaysia 🇲🇾Suara 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.
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 Social Media Tracking Centre
Ghana 🇬🇭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).
Social Media Analysis Toolkit (SMAT)
Mozilla, East Evelyn Avenue, Mountain View, CAThe 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.
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.
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.
This tool offers an adaptable method to measure the gendered aspects and understand the drivers of this violence.
a tool that allows members of the media to track the trustworthiness of stories shared on 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.
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.
Troll Factory
Finland (Suomi) 🇫🇮Troll Factory was developed by a team of experts at Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company.
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.
Facebook Community Standards
Facebook, Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CAEvery day, people use Facebook to share their experiences, connect with friends and family, and build communities.
Demtech Navigator
University of Oxford, 1 St Giles', Oxford OX1 3JS, UKThis 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.
CongoCheck
Democratic Republic of the Congo (République Démocratique du Congo) 🇨🇩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 is a computational social science research tool for studying online communities and discourse.
The goal of Computational Simulation of Online Social Behavior (SocialSim) is to develop innovative technologies for high-fidelity computational simulation of online social behavior.
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.
Civil Network OPORA
01021 KyivOne 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.
Civic Signal
AfricaCivicSignal is Code for Africa's AI/machine learning initiative, using large-scale media monitoring to map the content/creator landscape and underlying business models for disinformation profiteers. It uses MIT's Media Cloud software.
Claim Buster
Arlington, Texas"Claim Buster allows for fact checking of individual personal claims or claims by public officials. Users can insert their own claims or links to claims said publically to find out their factuality." - Countering Disinfo
Coalizão Direitos na Rede
Brazil (Brasil) 🇧🇷The Rights in the Network Coalition is a network of entities that brings together more than 40 academic and civil society organizations in defense of digital rights, with the main themes of action: access, freedom of expression, protection of personal data and privacy on the Internet.
Coalizão para Checagem, Eleições 2020
Brazil (Brasil) 🇧🇷TSE coordinated a fact-checking coalition, comprising nine renowned fact-checking organizations from the media, named “Coalizão para Checagem – Eleições 2020” (Fact-Checking Coalition – 2020 Elections).
We empower women around the world to participate in the political process and equip them with the skills to take on greater leadership roles.
Win with Women
455 Massachusetts Ave, NW, 8th Floor, Washington, DC 20001An initiative designed to help political parties become more inclusive and representative through an assessment that gauges men and women's perceptions of women in leadership, the types of social norms held by members of parties, and the individual, institutional and socio-cultural barriers to gender equality.
Youtube DataViewer
Mountain View, CA"The Youtube Dataviewer is a tool that allows users to extract metadata from Youtube videos." - Counteringdisinformation.org
WikiUX takes a user-centred approach to address credibility.
A Browser Extension for Adding Context to Online Stories by Suggesting Related Wikipedia Articles
Vishvas News
New DelhiVishvas News is an information fact-check and verification portal that is committed to debunking fake news and misinformation in Hindi, English and 10 different Indic languages.
Voluntary Code of Ethics - India 2019 Election
India (Bhārat) 🇮🇳Prior to 2019 elections, the Election Commission of India was able to convene representatives from top social media companies for a two-day brainstorming session on approaches to problematic social media content in elections.
Verify-Sy
Syria (Syrian Arab Republic, Suriyah) 🇸🇾Verify-Sy platform is a media platform specialized in examining news and images and verifying information, and Verify-Sy platform seeks to achieve two noble goals: ensuring the citizen's right to obtain accurate and correct information, and contributing as much as possible to improving the performance of the Syrian media and upgrading it by displaying the imbalances that affect it.
VERA Files is a nonstock, nonprofit independent media organization.
Code of Conduct: Measures to Address Disinformation Intended to Cause Harm During the Election Period
South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika) 🇿🇦South Africa’s “Code of Conduct: Measures to Address Disinformation Intended to Cause Harm During the Election Period” (in draft form as of July 2020) is aimed at “every registered party and every candidate” with additional obligations under the code for how those parties and candidates must take appropriate recourse against any member, representative or supporter of that party or candidate who behaves in violation of the code.
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