Civic Tech Field Guide

A Field Guide to “Fake News” and Other Information Disorders

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.

Hablatam

ITS Rio - Rua da Assembléia - Centro, Rio de Janeiro - State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Research project into how young people use tech and media

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.

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Media LIT

EDx course on media literacy. It helps us understand, analyze and create media.

Trusted News

114 Whitechapel High St. London E1 7PT

It’s hard to tell what’s real news and what’s fake these days, especially on the internet. TrustedNews helps you understand the news you are reading.

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Media Matters for Pakistan

Pakistan

Media Matters for Pakistan is a web based initiative, designed to act as an informal watchdog over the mainstream media in Pakistan.

Marvelous.ai

MarvelousAI is an (inactive) early stage startup founded by tech industry veterans.

Data & Society Media Manipulation Initiative

Data & Society Research Institute, West 20th Street, New York, NY, USA

The Media Manipulation Initative takes a sociotechnical approach to understanding the social, political, and economic incentives to game information systems, websites, platforms, and search engines—especially in cases where the attackers intend to destabilize democratic, social, and economic institutions.

Malign Creativity: How Gender, Sex, and Lies Are Weaponized Against Women Online

One Woodrow Wilson Plaza 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW Washington, DC 20004-3027

Report striving to build awareness of the direct and indirect impacts of gendered and sexualized disinformation on women in public life, as well as its corresponding impacts on national security and democratic participation.

Manila Principles on Intermediary Liability

Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines

The Manilla Principles on Intermediary Liability define various principles for intermediary companies to follow when operating in democratic and authoritarian environments

The Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA)

An open technical standard providing publishers, creators, and consumers the ability to trace the origin of different types of media.

MisinfoDay

MisinfoDay is an annual event co-hosted by the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public (CIP) and Washington State University’s Edward R. Murrow College of Communication.

Fact Checks for Internet Archive Wayback Machine Pages

San Francisco

The Internet Archive has started to surface some of these annotations for Wayback Machine users.

Confirmado

Guatemala

Guatemalan collaborative fact-checking platform with digital training and educational courses, through which journalists can educate themselves on open source intelligence (OSINT), disinformation analysis and digital safety.

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The Good Information Project

"The aim of The Good Information Project is to claim back and own the inform in information."

Fight disinformation

Take on Fake

Take on Fake debunks claims you’ve seen or shared online to show you how to stay informed. Host Hari Sreenivasan follows the Internet rabbit hole of misinformation, reading beyond a single headline to find credible sources to uncover the truth.

The Deepfake Lab

Discover how deepfakes work and the visual clues you can use to identify them. We are a group of communication designers that have created this project to demonstrate our research into making our own deep fake, and to communicate the signs you can spot to identify them.

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Harmony Square

a free online game funded by the State Dept. that helps fight #disinformation, now playable in 6 different languages

Tech, Media & Democracy course

New York City

Through a unique pan-university course, NYC universities partner to explore challenges and opportunities & build prototypes at the intersection of technology, media and democracy

Squash

Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

A prototype to display factchecks in real-time on live TV

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MediaReview

Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

A sibling to ClaimReview that allows fact-checkers to identify whether a video or image has been manipulated.

ClaimReview Project

Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

A tagging system for fact-checks

FactStream

The Washington Post, K Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA

The FactStream iOS app brings together the work of three of the largest U.S. fact-checking organizations, The Washington Post, PolitiFact and FactCheck.org.

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China Index 2021

Taiwan (T'ai-wan)

Measuring PRC Influence Around the Globe.

Public Editor

Berkeley, CA, USA

We’re an online community of critical thinkers vetting the most-shared news articles on the Internet.

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CORRECTIV.Faktencheck

Huyssenallee 11 45128 Essen

Fakten für die Demokratie

X Community Notes

San Francisco

X's community-based approach to misinformation

Centre for Information Resilience

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

CIR is a non-profit social enterprise dedicated to countering disinformation & exposing human rights abuses.

Fight disinformation

(Mis)informed

St. Petersburg, Florida, USA

The International Fact-Checking Network is releasing a limited-run podcast about fact-checking and fake news.

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The Reporters’ Lab

Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

The Reporters’ Lab is a center for journalism research in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. Our core projects focus on fact-checking, but we also do occasional research about trust in the news media and other topics.

Alt News

Ahmedabad

committed to fact-checking in a fair, transparent and non-partisan manner.

4Facts

4Facts is a tool that allows you to easily evaluate the credibility of your posts by commenting and flagging problems encountered in various articles. Check the facts, compete with the pros, and raise your media literacy!

Disinfo Defense League

Media Democracy Fund, Connecticut Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC, USA

The Disinfo Defense League (DDL) is a distributed national network of organizers, researchers and disinformation experts disrupting online racialized disinformation infrastructure and campaigns that deliberately target Black, Latinx, Asian American/Pacific Islander and other communities of color.

RT and Sputnik's Role in Russia's Disinformation and Propaganda Ecosystem

Russian Federation (the)

US State Department report on state-funded misinformation

Fight disinformation

Doublethink Labs

Taipei City, Taiwan

Doublethink Lab was founded in 2019 to strengthen democracy through enhancing digital defenses. Our work focuses on researching malign Chinese influence operations and disinformation campaigns and their impacts via the digital tools and methodologies we have developed.

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Journal of Online Trust and Safety

Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, USA

The Journal of Online Trust and Safety is a cross-disciplinary, open access, fast peer-review journal that publishes research on how consumer internet services are abused to cause harm and how to prevent those harms.

NewsScore

Lisbon

NewsScore worked as a Browser extension, providing you with context on the news you consume online, as you scroll through your feed. Whether that’s on social media, newsfeed, or any type of online environment.

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211CHECK

Juba

211CHECK is a fact-checking and information verification platform that works on countering misinformation and disinformation in South Sudan.

Doublethink Lab's Disinfo Walkthrough

Taiwan (T'ai-wan)

A collection of easy to use resources for identifying misinformation and its psychological tricks

Fight disinformation

Digital Forensic Research Lab

Washington, DC

The Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab) has operationalized the study of disinformation by exposing falsehoods and fake news, documenting human rights abuses, and building digital resilience worldwide.

human rights

Fight disinformation

Chequeado

Argentina

Chequeado is a non-profit, non-partisan independent media organisation and Latin America's first fact-checking site.

Correctiv

Essen

Correctiv is a German non-profit newsroom that investigates injustices and abuses of power, and runs educational programs on journalism and media literacy.

Dangerous Speech Project

The Dangerous Speech Project was founded in 2010 to study speech (any form of human expression) that inspires violence between groups of people – and to find ways to mitigate this while protecting freedom of expression.