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Ethiopia Check
Ethiopia (Ityop'iya)Ethiopia Check debunks claims and exposes fake news using its platforms on Facebook (52,000 followers), Twitter (7,000 followers) and Telegram (34,000 followers).
Facebook Digital Literacy Library
United States of America (the)The Facebook Digital Literacy Library is hosted by Facebook and currently includes learning resources made available by Youth and Media at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.
EU vs. Disinformation
EuropeEUvsDisinfo is the flagship project of the European External Action Service’s East StratCom Task Force. It was established in 2015 to better forecast, address, and respond to the Russian Federation’s ongoing disinformation campaigns affecting the European Union, its Member States, and countries in the shared neighbourhood.
EU Disinfo Lab
EuropeEU DisinfoLab is an independent non-profit organisation focused on tackling sophisticated disinformation campaigns targeting the EU, its member states, core institutions, and core values.
IFES looks forward to the virtual launch of a working group that will focus on tackling the challenges presented by social media and disinformation to electoral processes across Europe and Eurasia.
Verificado.uy
Uruguay (Republica Oriental del Uruguay)A project to verify media around the 2019 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.
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.
a tool that allows members of the media to track the trustworthiness of stories shared on Twitter.
Tirto.id
IndonesiaTirto.id translates the enlightening vision as the necessity of presenting clear, enlightening, insightful, contextual, deep, investigative, factual, supported by a lot of quantitative and qualitative data. - both secondary and primary, and can be accounted for.
Internews’ Thwarting Disinformation and Promoting Quality Information in Haitian Media project will limit the impact of inflammatory rhetoric, false news and disinformation.
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.
The Media Manipulation Casebook
Harvard Kennedy School, John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MA, USACase studies. The Media Manipulation Casebook is a digital research platform linking together theory, methods, and practice for mapping media manipulation and disinformation campaigns.
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.
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.
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.
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.
CongoCheck
Congo (the Democratic Republic of the)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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
Youtube DataViewer
Mountain View, CA, USA"The Youtube Dataviewer is a tool that allows users to extract metadata from Youtube videos." - Counteringdisinformation.org
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.
What’s Crap on WhatsApp?
South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika)Podcast dedicated to unpacking the disinfo spreading on Whatsapp
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.
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.
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.
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.
BOOM
MumbaiBOOM is an independent digital journalism initiative. We are India’s premier fact checking website, committed to bring to our readers verified facts rather than opinion. When there is a claim, we will fact check it.
In 2018 we launched Bot Sentinel to help fight disinformation and targeted harassment. We believe Twitter users should be able to engage in healthy online discourse without inauthentic accounts, toxic trolls, foreign countries, and organized groups manipulating the conversation.
Botometer (formerly BotOrNot) checks the activity of a Twitter account and gives it a score based on how likely the account is to be a bot.
BotSlayer is an application that helps track and detect potential manipulation of information spreading on Twitter.
Be Internet Awesome
Mountain View, CA, USAGoogle's digital media literacy training for kids
Daily, journalists from Aos Fatos follow statements by politicians and authorities of national expression, from different party colors, in order to verify if they are speaking the truth. For this, we adopted a formula with seven steps to carry out our checks.
Agência Lupa
Brazil (Brasil)The Magnifier is the first news agency in Brazil to specialize in journalistic technique known worldwide as fact-checking and was founded on November 1, 2015.
Animal Político
Mexico (Estados Unidos Mexicanos)Animal Político is a digital native medium that brings together journalists, designers, programmers and video editors to create content with rigor, precision and thought to serve citizens.
Annir Initiative
Libya (Libiyah)Annir is a non-partisan digital initiative specialized in raising awareness about Media & Information Literacy and Digital Safety.
Al Sur
South America"Al Sur" is a consortium of organizations that work in civil society and academia in Latin America and that seek with their joint work to strengthen human rights in the digital environment of the region.
AFRICMIL
Abuja, NigeriaAFRICMIL is non-government organisation that focuses on media, information, research, advocacy and training. It aims to promote media and information literacy as a key component in the enhancement of democracy and good governance and the promotion of accountability and orderly society.
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