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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.
Polygraph.info is a fact-checking website produced by Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
Polétika República Dominicana
C. Josefa Perdomo 160 Santo Domingo, Dominican RepublicPolétika República Dominicana is a group of civil society organizations and movements that work in different areas, including: health, housing and habitat, taxation, citizen security, transparency, childhood and adolescence, gender, and municipality.
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.
Pegabot
ITS Rio - Rua da Assembléia - Centro, Rio de Janeiro - State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazila tool that brings more transparency to the use of bots in Brazil.
OwlFactor automatically calculates the quality of an article based on four factors
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.
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.
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.
Social Science One
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USASocial Science One implements a new type of partnership between academic researchers and the private sector to advance the goals of social science in understanding and solving society’s greatest challenges.
A guide written by targets of cyber-attacks that is designed for women, people of color, trans and genderqueer people, and everyone else whose existing oppressions are made worse by digital violence.
South Asia Check
Kathmandu, NepalSouth Asia Check is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit initiative by Panos South Asia which aims to promote accuracy and accountability in public debate.
Was a prototype to help newsrooms crowdsource better information about the communities they serve, by Wikipedians
Siberkreasi
JakartaSiBerkreasi is a national movement to overcome the biggest potential threats that are being faced by Indonesia, namely the spread of negative content through the internet such as hoaxes, cyberbullying and online radicalism.
The Citizen Browser Project
New York CityThe 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.
The overall goal of the project is to safeguard the information integrity around the 2020 Parliamentary and 2021 Municipal elections in Georgia from disinformation, discrediting campaigns and other hostile information operations on social media.
Reveal
Luxembourg (Luxembourg, Letzebuerg)EU research project toto advance the necessary technologies for making a higher level analysis of social media possible. Ended 2017.
Sourceror was meant to leverage Wikipedia’s credibility data to improve media literacy and combat disinformation on the web. It's not clear if it launched.
Rooted in Trust
Internews Network, 15th Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USARooted 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.
The Scribe reference API will list references based on usage and domain by language.
Within the disinformation and memory studies direction, the Institute for Development of Freedom of Information (IDFI) team is developing tools in several ways.
RESIST Counter Disinformation Toolkit
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)UK government toolkit to help support the dissemination of reliable, truthful information that underpins our democracy.
Regional Elections Administration and Political Processes Strengthening Program (REAPPS) I and II in Europe
Prague, CzechiaGoal is to promote cross-border learning and networking on a wide range of existing initiatives and to develop new capacity in political participation, government transparency and election administration.
rbutr tells you when the webpage you are viewing has been disputed, rebutted or contradicted elsewhere on the internet. Last used 2013.
PesaYetu
KenyaPesaYetu helps journalists, researchers and activists transform their work with in-depth county-specific information.
Rappler values truth-telling, facts, and factual reporting.
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
PUSAD
IndonesiaPUSAD 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.
New York Times AR Storytelling Gallery
New York Times Building, 8th Avenue, New York, NY, USAShowcasing the NYT's 27 Published Experiments in AR Storytelling
Demokratiefabrik
Switzerland (Schweiz, Suisse, Svizzera)The Demokratiefabrik is a digital place where citizens meet to discuss various topics together and fabricate defined end products.
In the "Widely Viewed Content Report", Facebook provides the 20 individual links and 20 individual posts that were seen by the highest number of people, in the US, for the quarter. In this dashboard, we are tracking objective properties of these 20 posts, links, and the producers behind them, as well as the extent to which it is possible for Facebook users to assess the content from a media literacy perspective.
Digital Green
San FranciscoDigital Green is a global development organization that empowers smallholder farmers to lift themselves out of poverty by harnessing the collective power of technology and grassroots-level partnerships.
California Cradle-to-Career Data System
CaliforniaA statewide data system that will provide tools to help students reach their goals and deliver information on education and workforce outcomes.
The Influence Industry Project
Brunnenstraße 9, 10119 Berlin, GermanyLearn about, discover resources, and explore research on the industry using our personal data to influence citizens in political campaigns.
Greenbeam uses data from the GreenWebFoundation to indicate which sites you visit (and the third party sites these sites call) are running on renewable energy
What Builders Struggle With While Innovating With Data Governance
Mozilla, East Evelyn Avenue, Mountain View, CA, USAMozilla Foundation survey of builders' perceptions of data governance
How to Citizen
Los Angeles, CAListen to the How to Citizen Podcast where Baratunde Thurston reimagines the word “citizen” as a verb and reminds us how to wield our collective power.
A programme aimed at circumventing our geographic limitations and strengthening regional connection and participation within the African civic tech community.
unBail
Cleveland, OhioDemocratizing information about the legal system
The AR Developer Challenge is a series of community-driven competition events focused on solving problems in areas such as healthcare, education, workforce development, and more
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