Civic Tech Field Guide

Aggie

Aggie is an open-source social and online media aggregation tool designed specifically for monitoring events in real time.

Network Contagion Research Institute

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.

Monitor do WhatsApp

Minas Gerais

This system shows the most shared image, video, audio, messaging, and URLs content across over 300 WhatsApp public groups daily.

WhatsApp

MozCheck

Mozambique (Mocambique)

MozCheck was the first fact checking organization in Mozambique.

Mnemonic

Mnemonic is an NGO dedicated to archiving, investigating and memorializing digital information documenting human rights violations and international crimes.

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.

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

Brooklyn, NY

Disinformation, 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.

MediaWise

The mission of MediaWise is to empower people of all ages to be more critical consumers of content online.

MediaBiasFactCheck

Media Bias/Fact Check (MBFC), founded in 2015, is an independent online media outlet.

Mediabugs

Mediabugs was a service for correcting errors and problems in media coverage.

Wordpress

Citizen Helpdesk

The Citizen Helpdesks are a pioneering citizen feedback, dialogue and community voice platform to ensure accountability in the development process.

Checkology

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.

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

Centre for Democracy & Development Fact Check program

Troll Factory

Finland (Suomi)

Troll Factory was developed by a team of experts at Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company.

Twitter Trails

a tool that allows members of the media to track the trustworthiness of stories shared on Twitter.

X (Twitter)

Tirto.id

Indonesia

Tirto.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.

TrolleyBust

Ukraine (Ukrayina)

TrolleyBust is a service for tracking and blocking Internet trolls and other sources of anti-Ukrainian propaganda.

TrollBusters

TrollBusters is an at-the-ready network of supporters to respond to women journalists’ reports of online harassment by providing positive counterspeech.

What’s Crap on WhatsApp?

South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika)

Podcast dedicated to unpacking the disinfo spreading on Whatsapp

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.

Verificado.uy

Uruguay (Republica Oriental del Uruguay)

A project to verify media around the 2019 elections

TaxClock Kenya

Kenya

TaxClock shows how public budget data can be used to help citizens better understand how governments spend our taxmoney.

TrustServista

Romania

TrustServista uses advanced Artificial Intelligence algorithms in order to provide media professionals, analysts and content distributors with in-depth content analytics and verification capabilities.

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.

VERA Files Fact Check

VERA Files is a nonstock, nonprofit independent media organization.

Community Standards (Facebook)

Facebook, Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA, USA

Every day, people use Facebook to share their experiences, connect with friends and family, and build communities.

Facebook

Demtech Navigator

University of Oxford, 1 St Giles', Oxford OX1 3JS, UK

This 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.

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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

Communalytic is a computational social science research tool for studying online communities and discourse.

Civil Network OPORA

01021 Kyiv

One of the leading non-governmental and non-partisan All-Ukrainian organizations for public oversight and advocacy in the field of elections, parliamentarism, education, joint ownership, energy efficiency, local self-government, as well as the comprehensive implementation of the principle of open data.

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.

WhatsApp

Civic Signal

Africa

CivicSignal is Code for Africa's AI/machine learning initiative, using large-scale media monitoring to map the content/creator landscape and underlying business models for disinformation profiteers. It uses MIT's Media Cloud software.

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.

O Detector de Fake News

O Detector de Fake News te permite detectar e denunciar Fake News, Click Baits e notícias Extremamente Tendenciosas, graças ao nosso robô, o Robinho.

The Pledge for Election Integrity

"Pledge signed by political parties/individuals committing to transparency and preserving election integrity by avoiding disinformation and attacks by third parties." - Counteringdisinformation.org

The (mis)informed citizen

London

Research project at the Alan Turing Institute

The Citizen Browser Project

New York City

The 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.

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.

Tactical Tech’s Gendersec Training Curricula on “Hacking Hate Speech”

Brunnenstraße 9, 10119 Berlin, Germany

A 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 10694

Taiwan’s first fact-checking center was jointly supported by the Taiwan Media Observation Education Foundation and the Quality Journalism Development Association.

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.

StopFake

Kyiv

The 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.

Suara Masyarakat

Malaysia

Suara 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.

Sure and Share Center

Thailand (Prathet Thai)

Thai News Agency’s ‘Sure andShare’ project, which encourages audience members to submit questions they have about content, rumours or stories circulating on the messaging app LINE.

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South Asia Check

Kathmandu, Nepal

South Asia Check is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit initiative by Panos South Asia which aims to promote accuracy and accountability in public debate.