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Digit Eye
India (Bhārat) 🇮🇳Digiteye India is an independent digital news fact-checking venture by a small group of veteran journalists who came together to bring forth authentic facts behind daily news and claims being passed on as news, social media messages and views.
Our mission is to ensure that information technology and social media play a proactive role in supporting democracy and human rights globally.
Engaging Women in Politics in Uganda
Uganda 🇺🇬Organized an e-conference for over 150 women candidates for elected office in Uganda, with a focus on navigating social barriers to political participation, including misinformation and cyberbullying.
Ecuador Chequea
QuitoData enriches public debate and therefore strengthens democracy. An informed society is capable of making conscious decisions.
El Poder de Elegir (de Chicas Poderosas)
Colombia 🇨🇴El Poder de Elegir is a project to monitor and fact-check the political information that circulates through WhatsApp during the campaign period of the presidential elections of 2018.
Efecto Cocuyo Chequea
Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of 🇻🇪We are an independent Venezuelan media, which uses all its platforms for the free exercise of journalism and access to information.
Dubawa
Nigeria 🇳🇬DUBAWA is Nigeria’s independent verification and fact-checking platform, initiated by the Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism (PTCIJ) and supported by the most influential newsrooms and civic organisations in the country to help amplify the culture of truth in public discourse, public policy, and media practice.
Dutch Code of Conduct Transparency Online Political Advertisements
Netherlands (Nederland, Holland) 🇳🇱This Code of Conduct was published to address the issues of election transparency and disinformation in the digital sphere.
DisinfoWatch
Canada 🇨🇦DisinfoWatch is a Canadian foreign disinformation monitoring and debunking platform.
DIRT is a protocol for decentralized information curation that uses token staking to incentivize honesty.
The Certified Content Coalition certified trustworthy publishers that meet fundamental standards, giving consumers confidence in journalistic content.
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.
Detector de Mentiras
Colombia 🇨🇴La 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 DeepTrust Alliance is a global coalition of stakeholders advancing the fight against digital disinformation and deepfakes.
Connects academic research on disinformation threats and vulnerability to governments, CSOs, technology firms, political organizations.
Debunk.eu
Lithuania (Lietuva) 🇱🇹DEBUNK (demaskuok in Lithuanian) is a unique Lithuania-born initiative uniting competing media outlets, journalists, volunteers for a single purpose – to make society more resilient to orchestrated disinformation campaigns.
Disinfo Defense League Policy Platform
Media Democracy Fund, Connecticut Avenue Northwest, Washington, DCThe Disinfo Defense League Policy Platform is a series of legislative, executive, and international recommendations addressing disinformation.
DisinfoPortal.org was the Atlantic Council's one-stop interactive online portal and guide to the Kremlin’s information war.
Disinformation campaign map
Washington, DCA map visualizing the Atlantic Council’s DFRLab research on coordinated disinformation campaigns.
Doble Check
University of Costa RicaDoble 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.
Quod
United States of America 🇺🇸Quod was a project to create an open database of misinformation on the web. It was created to crowdsource the difficult task of identifying and cataloging misinformation published online. You can participate by reporting misinformation you encounter online.
A Field Guide to “Fake News” and Other Information Disorders explores the use of digital methods to study false viral news, political memes, trolling practices and their social life online.
Trusted Times uses a browser extension to identify fake and unreliable news and presents additional analysis through machine learning of any news article to show a reporter’s and news source’s bias, if any. Trusted Times screens thousands of news websites in the United States.
A training guide for journalists and writers on how to respond to online harassment and abuse, including building a community of supporters and developing counterspeech messages.
Permanent International Media Monitoring Mission on Disinformation about Ukraine and the Ukrainian diaspora
Ukraine (Ukrayina) 🇺🇦NGO "Ukraine-2050" is a working to counter disinformation through a media monitoring program.
OwlFactor automatically calculates the quality of an article based on four factors
The Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace of 12 November 2018 is a call to come together to face the new threats endangering citizens and infrastructure.
Observatorio Venezolano de Fake News
Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of 🇻🇪The Venezuelan Fake News Observatory aims to educate and empower citizens in the face of a reality that is submerged daily in the misinformation produced, among other reasons, by the almost immediate viralization of falsified information that circulates, mainly, on social networks.
Netvizz is a data collection and extraction application that allows researchers to export data in standard file formats from different sections of the Facebook social networking service.
Nepal Fact Check
Nepal 🇳🇵Center for Media Research – Nepal (CMR Nepal) is an autonomous, research and policy-oriented, not-for-profit non-governmental policy think tank registered with Nepal Government and Social Welfare Council and is based in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal.
Mozilla Web Literacy Framework
Mountain View, CAIn today’s digital world, knowing how to read, write, and participate online is a foundational skill next to reading, writing, and arithmetic.
"The News Literacy Project is a national education nonprofit offering nonpartisan, independent programs that teach students how to know what to believe in the digital age." - Counteringdisinformation.org
NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence
Nepal’s Election Commission published their electoral code of conduct in 2015, which established standards and regulations for various institutions, persons, bodies and authorities.
Name It. Change It releases research projects and studies demonstrating gender-based challenges women face from the media when they run for office.
Namibia Fact Check
Namibia 🇳🇦Namibia Fact Check is an impartial initiative that aims to verify public statements and media reports.
In the age of social media, many of us ambiently consume news by reading headlines and descriptions that appear in our news feeds.
"A grant from the Knight Foundation to PBS News Hour, the Newstracker project has tasked itself with "developing a tool that combines online news content with engagement data from social media and other sources to help journalists and others better understand the scale, scope and shape of the misinformation problem." - Counteringdisinformation.org
NewseumED.org offers free resources to cultivate the First Amendment and media literacy skills essential to civic life.
"Sponsored partly by Microsoft, Newsguard is a plugin for browsers such as Chrome, Mozilla, and Microsoft's Edge that validates news websites for users based on 9 journalistic integrity criteria." - Counteringdisinformation.org
Newscheck
India (Bhārat) 🇮🇳Strengthening our resolve to support the fight against misinformation in India, Internews is delighted to announce that in partnership with DataLEADS and with the support of Google.org, we will be launching a new news literacy project in India aimed at empowering the general public by helping them learn how to critically assess the information they see online and navigate news.
News Integrity Initiative
CUNY Graduate CenterThe News Integrity Initative is a global consortium focused on helping people make informed judgments about the news they read and share online.
News On Wiki NOW
San FranciscoHelping the Public Navigate a Challenging Media Landscape
Hablatam
ITS Rio - Rua da Assembléia - Centro, Rio de Janeiro - State of Rio de Janeiro, BrazilResearch project into how young people use tech and media
EDx course on media literacy. It helps us understand, analyze and create media.
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