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Rooted in Trust
Internews Network, 15th Street Northwest, Washington, DCRooted 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.
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PesaYetu
Kenya 🇰🇪PesaYetu helps journalists, researchers and activists transform their work with in-depth county-specific information.
StopFake
KyivThe nongovernmental organization Media Reforms Center is an educational platform, founded by Mohyla School of Journalism at National University of ‘KyivMohyla Academy’, which aims to implement high standards of journalism education in Ukraine, raise the level of media literacy, inform about the danger of propaganda and dissemination of fake information in the media.
Rappler values truth-telling, facts, and factual reporting.
PUSAD
Indonesia 🇮🇩PUSAD is a center for research on religion and democracy, they conduct research on hate speech and political disinformation.
Radar
Brazil (Brasil) 🇧🇷Radar is a project which uses a combination of algorithms and manual research to find posts related to three themes over a wide variety of social media platforms in Brazil.
Raskrinkavanje
Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosna i Hercegovina / Босна и Херцеговина) 🇧🇦The Raskrinkavanje.ba platform was launched by the team of the "Why Not" organization, which has many years of experience in fact-checking, through work on checking the accuracy and consistency of statements of public officials, and monitoring the fulfillment of election promises on the Istinomjer platform.
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.
Projeto Credibilidade
Brazil (Brasil) 🇧🇷The Trust Project develops transparency standards that help people assess the quality and credibility of journalism.
Protecting Tunisian Elections from Digital Threat Roundtable
Tunisia (Tunis) 🇹🇳The roundtable highlights the current state of social media used by political actors ahead of the elections, seeking to understand and foresight how social media will impact the political campaign, and how to better protect the integrity of the campaign.
Reliability and Multilingual Global Communities
The Pro-Truth Pledge is a project of Intentional Insights, a volunteer-run educational nonpartisan 501(c)(3) nonprofit devoted to promoting science-based truth-seeking, rational thinking, and wise decision-making.
Project Certeza
Mexico City, CDMX, MexicoFirst deployed on Election Day in 2018, Project Certeza’s purpose was to identify and deal with false information disseminated, particularly through social networks but also through any other media, that could produce uncertainty or distrust in the citizenry about the electoral authority’s responsibilities as the election is happening.
The School of Good Services
LondonThe skills you need to deliver services that work
Project Look Sharp Media Curriculum
Ithaca, New YorkProject Look Sharp is a nonprofit, mission-driven outreach program of Ithaca College.
PubliElectoral
Buenos AiresPubliElectoral is a technological tool of social interest that allows the collection of information related to electoral advertising on social networks without affecting the privacy of citizen users.
Pressland is a first-of-its-kind data-intelligence platform that maps global media production in real time.
Polygraph.info is a fact-checking website produced by Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
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.
The Content Blockchain Project was initiated in 2016 by a consortium of publishing, law and IT companies to research the possibilities of using blockchain technologies to advance the content and media ecosystem.
Misinformation Detector was a "decentralized trust protocol" tool to track news credibility.
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
Colombia 🇨🇴The Election Observation Mission (La Misión de Observación Electoral, MOE) is an election observer group based in Colombia.
Checkology’s lessons and other resources show you how to navigate today’s challenging information landscape.
Chequea Bolivia
Bolivia (Buliwya / Wuliwya / Volívia) 🇧🇴A fundamental pillar of the democratic system is that there is freedom of expression and dissemination, and that citizens are duly informed to make correct decisions in their daily lives.
Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD)
Social Insurance Road Trade Fair Area 700103 Kano NigeriaCITAD is a non-governmental and non-profit organization that is committed to the use of information and communication technologies for development and promotion of good governance.
Center for Policy Alternatives
Colombo, Sri LankaThe Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) was formed in the firm belief that there is an urgent need to strengthen institution and capacity-building for good governance and conflict transformation in Sri Lanka and that non-partisan civil society groups have an important and constructive contribution to make to this process.
Countering Information Influence Activities: A handbook for communicators
Sweden (Sverige) 🇸🇪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.
Monitor do WhatsApp
Minas GeraisThis system shows the most shared image, video, audio, messaging, and URLs content across over 300 WhatsApp public groups daily.
MozCheck
Mozambique (Mocambique) 🇲🇿MozCheck was the first fact checking organization in Mozambique.
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.
USAID Media Program in Ukraine
Ukraine (Ukrayina) 🇺🇦The USAID-funded Media Program in Ukraine will empower local media to expand Ukrainian citizens’ access to high-quality news and information.
SSRC Media Well
BrooklynDisinformation, misinformation, and “fake news” are longstanding phenomena that, in the wake of the digital revolution, have become newly politicized and consequential. SSRC's research on the topic.
The mission of MediaWise is to empower people of all ages to be more critical consumers of content online.
Media Bias/Fact Check (MBFC), founded in 2015, is an independent online media outlet.
Mediabugs was a service for correcting errors and problems in media coverage.
Credibility Coalition
San FranciscoThe Credibility Coalition brings people together to develop common standards for information credibility.
NCRI has built its own proprietary platform that has played a critical role in the identification and forecasting of emerging threats that threaten the Economic, physical and social health of civil society.
The Citizen Helpdesks are a pioneering citizen feedback, dialogue and community voice platform to ensure accountability in the development process.
Masyarakat Anti Fitnah Indonesia
Indonesia 🇮🇩cekfakta.com adalah sebuah sebuah proyek kolaboratif pengecekan fakta yang dibangun di atas API Yudistira oleh MAFINDO ( Masyarakat Anti Fitnah Indonesia ) dan bekerja sama dengan beberapa media online yang tergabung di AJI ( Aliansi Jurnalis Independen ) dan AMSI ( Asosiasi Media Siber Indonesia ) serta didukung oleh Google News Initiative dan Internews serta FirstDraft
New York Times AR Storytelling Gallery
New York Times Building, 8th Avenue, New York, NYShowcasing the NYT's 27 Published Experiments in AR Storytelling
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