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ZimFact
Zimbabwe 🇿🇼ZimFact is an independent, non-partisan Zimbabwean online fact-checking platform.
What’s Crap on WhatsApp?
South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika) 🇿🇦Podcast dedicated to unpacking the disinfo spreading on Whatsapp
Verificado.uy
Uruguay (Republica Oriental del Uruguay) 🇺🇾A project to verify media around the 2019 elections
VoxCheck
Ukraine (Ukrayina) 🇺🇦Provides fact checking, explainers, and analytical articles, especially on issues of economic reform in Ukraine.
WeVerify
EuropeAn open source platform aiming to engage communities and citizen journalists alongside newsroom and freelance journalists for collaborative, decentralised content verification, tracking, and debunking.
Consiliere HIV
Romania 🇷🇴Counseling for Ukrainians living with HIV
INFO/tegrity Initative
455 Massachusetts Ave, NW, 8th Floor, Washington, DC 20001Provides a framework for NDI's DemTech team to lead and support institutional initiatives countering disinformation and other forms of online manipulation, while strengthening and ensuring the integrity of the information space.
Image Verification Assistant
Greece (Ellas, Ellada) 🇬🇷We are a joint team of engineers and investigators from CERTH-ITI and Deutsche Welle, trying to build a comprehensive tool for media verification on the Web.
The Hamilton 2.0 dashboard, a project of the Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, provides a summary analysis of the narratives and topics promoted by Russian, Chinese, and Iranian government officials and state-funded media on Twitter, YouTube, state-sponsored news websites, and via official diplomatic statements at the United Nations.
IREX’s Learn to Discern approach builds resilience to manipulative information by empowering those who engage with media and information to navigate it in a safe, critical, responsible, healthy, and empathy-driven way.
Malign Creativity: How Gender, Sex, and Lies Are Weaponized Against Women Online
One Woodrow Wilson Plaza 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW Washington, DC 20004-3027Report striving to build awareness of the direct and indirect impacts of gendered and sexualized disinformation on women in public life, as well as its corresponding impacts on national security and democratic participation.
Latam Chequea
Latin AmericaFaced with the “infodemic”, the spread of rumors and false content, Latin American checkers join forces to share the information we produce and, by joining forces, provide better information to our communities.
Lead Stories is an innovative fact checking and debunking website at the intersection of big data and journalism that launched in 2015.
Never before has the need for News Literacy been more urgent.
Information Resistance
Ukraine (Ukrayina) 🇺🇦Information Resistance is a non-governmental project whose main task is to counteract in the information field external threats arising for Ukraine in the main areas: military, economic and energy, as well as in information security.
Inactive project: "InVID will build a platform providing services to detect, authenticate and check the reliability and accuracy of newsworthy video files and video content spread via social media."
Initiative for Media Freedom
Philippines 🇵🇭The Initiative for Media Freedom (IMF) is a five-year program implemented by Internews and funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
PBS youth media literacy effort. "This is a pilot – a test – with Ruff Ruffman videos looking at the red-hot topic of how kids can and should use media and technology."
"The Hypothesis Project is a new effort to implement an old idea: A conversation layer over the entire web that works everywhere, without needing implementation by any underlying site."
The index compiles news sites with low factual-reporting levels, as determined and documented by Media Bias/Fact Check.
Iffy Quotient
University of Michigan, South State Street, Ann Arbor, MIThe Iffy Quotient is a metric for how much content from “Iffy” sites has been amplified on Facebook and Twitter.
InformNapalm
Ukraine (Ukrayina) 🇺🇦InformNapalm is a volunteer initiative emerged as a response to the Russian aggression in Ukraine in March 2014.
The Journalism Trust Initiative aims at a healthier information space.
The International Partnership on Information and Democracy is an intergovernmental non-binding agreement endorsed by 38 countries around the world to promote and implement democratic principles in the global information and communication space
Easily see if a news site offers credible news or should not be trusted and is un-credible/dodgy.
Leading up to and following the Kenyan election on August 9 2022, the Sentinel Project is expanding its previous work in the area, from Una Hakika to 15 of Kenya's highest risk counties.
Knowledge and Rights with Young people through Safer Spaces (KRYSS) - deploys a coordinated network of individuals to amplify positive counter-messages on social media to counter online gender-based violence and disinformation.
ITS Rio Curricula on Information Issues
ITS Rio - Rua da Assembléia - Centro, Rio de Janeiro - State of Rio de Janeiro, BrazilCourse at Instituto de Tecnologia e Sociedade do Rio
Social Media Hoax Slayer
MumbaiIn the last few years, the Social Media having a wider reach and faster, started polluting human minds by anti-social elements, wrong doers, pranksters etc.
Introducing an open-source browser extension that helps you thwart targeted advertising on Facebook. Not updated since 2018.
Republic of Georgia's “Ethical Principles of Candidates of 28 October 2018 Presidential Elections”
Georgia (Sakartvelo) 🇬🇪The purpose of the “Ethical Principles of Candidates of 28 October 2018 Presidential Elections” was to establish guidelines for presidential candidates during their election campaigns.
GhanaFact
Ghana 🇬🇭Ghana’s first full-time fact-checking organisation signatory to the International Fact-checking Network (IFCN) Code of Principles.
Media Matters for Pakistan
Pakistan 🇵🇰Media Matters for Pakistan is a web based initiative, designed to act as an informal watchdog over the mainstream media in Pakistan.
MarvelousAI is an (inactive) early stage startup founded by tech industry veterans.
Data & Society Media Manipulation Initiative
Data & Society Research Institute, West 20th Street, New York, NYThe Media Manipulation Initative takes a sociotechnical approach to understanding the social, political, and economic incentives to game information systems, websites, platforms, and search engines—especially in cases where the attackers intend to destabilize democratic, social, and economic institutions.
The Manilla Principles on Intermediary Liability define various principles for intermediary companies to follow when operating in democratic and authoritarian environments
Linterna Verde
BogotáLinterna Verde do Research on the online public debate based on areas of interest. They seek to make our work accessible, useful and actionable for civil society, the media and government.
Liga Contra el Silencio
Colombia 🇨🇴We define ourselves as an alliance that involves the media, a central newsroom and a network of freelance collaborators.
A user guide for civil society organizations and researchers to assess the vulnerability of a country’s electoral integrity to online manipulation.
Digital Democracy Room
Rio de JaneiroThe Digital Democracy Room is an initiative of FGV DAPP to monitor the public debate on the internet and fight disinformation strategies which threaten the integrity of political and electoral processes, seeking to strengthen the democratic institutions.
The Digital Enquirer Kit is centered around misinformation, fact-based research and digital security.
Digital Democracy Charter
36-38 Hatton Garden, London EC1N 8EB, UK"The Digital Democracy Charter outlines several guiding principles on countering online disinformation and strengthening our democracies given the new digital age." - Counteringdisinformation.org
The Digital Democracy Monitor Toolkit seeks to empower researchers with the knowledge, tools and examples to analyse democratic discourse online.
Digital Ethical Pact
Panama 🇵🇦Panama's Digital Ethical Pact is an agreement where signatories pledge to follow the following: 1. Collaborate with the Electoral Tribunal so that the electoral ban is respected and electoral campaign is only carried out during the permitted periods of 45 days before the internal elections of the political parties and 60 days before the general elections.
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
Argentina 🇦🇷Desconfío is an initiative launched by the Data Concepción team. It builds tools, produces research, and leads trainings.
Data Analytics for Social Media Monitoring
Washington, DCThis new guide is designed to help democracy practitioners better understand social media trends, content, data, and networks.
Eltették
Hungary (Magyarország) 🇭🇺An interactive map to show the billions worth of properties that went from state-owned to privately owned in recent years, together with K Monitor
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