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Hearken’s Engagement Management System empowers organizations to generate actionable insights from the public to create more relevant, representative and original content.
Public Interest AI explainer site
Humboldt-Institut Berlin, Invalidenstraße, Berlin, GermanyA project map of Public Interest AI and related research
A UN resolution in favor of ICTs for Sustainable Development
Trusted Voices is a platform focused on increasing transparency in news media. Using blockchain technology, Trusted Voices tracks source material to create a chain of custody from the device used to capture content to its usage on various media platforms.
The Starling Lab, a research center anchored at Stanford University’s School of Engineering and the University of Southern California’s Shoah Foundation, has developed a ground-breaking framework to combat mis/disinformation by tracking the provenance of digital content through the use of open-source tools, best practices and case studies designed to help reduce information uncertainty.
Starling Lab
CaliforniaA new methodology to restore trust in digital media
Hatebase was a collaborative, regionalized repository of multilingual hate speech, developed in partnership between the Dark Data Project and The Sentinel Project
European Centre for Algorithmic Transparency
Valencia (Spain)The European Centre for Algorithmic Transparency (ECAT) will contribute to a safer, more predictable and trusted online environment for people and business.
Institute for Rebooting Social Media
Berkman Center For Internet, Everett Street, Cambridge, MA, USAWe are a three-year research initiative addressing social media’s most urgent problems, including misinformation, privacy breaches, harassment, and content governance.
Get real-time 3D content creation software for your nonprofit or public library through Unity for Nonprofits at TechSoup.
Narrative Change Lab
TorontoInspirit Foundation program "to shift the Canadian narrative landscape for equity-seeking groups through pop culture."
Salt Lake City's govtech innovation program is focused on modernization and digital equity for residents. "Another area the department will focus on is integrating the city’s “Digital Equity For All” policy. Passed in September 2020, the policy aims to provide residents with the opportunity to access and use information and communication technologies reliably. The resolution, which was inspired by the importance of technology during the pandemic, aims to incorporate three concepts: relevant content, services, hardware and digital literacy into the city’s policymaking. To achieve this, the department will: increase usage and understanding of digital and communications technology address potential barriers to digital inclusion address the need for digital literacy training address the need for access via reliable and affordable devices address the need for language and disability accommodations develop relevancy and advocacy campaigns within specific communities and populations" https://www.govtech.com/gov-experience/Salt-Lake-City-Mayor-Announces-New-Innovation-Department.html
DemGames for Debates - developed in partnership with NDI’s Citizen Participation and Latin American and Caribbean teams - provides users with a fun way to practice the terms and concepts associated with crafting arguments, identifying evidence, and justifying rebuttals.
Tarbell makes it simple to put your work on the web, whether you’re a team of one or a dozen. With Tarbell, you can collaboratively build beautiful websites and publish them with ease. Tarbell makes use of familiar, flexible tools to take the magic (and frustration) out of publishing to the web. Google spreadsheets handle content management, so changes to your stories are easy to make without touching a line of code. Step-by-step prompts help you set up and configure your project, so that publishing it is a breeze.
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India (Bhārat)One of Tattle's goals is to make stories fact-checking content circulated on chat apps and social media more accessible to mobile first users. To make the content accessible, Tattle wants the content to be discoverable through image search and video search. To implement search, Tattle needs the multi-media content inside the stories from fact-checking sites, linked with the sites that it is coming from.
Archive containing content scraped from all the different sources- the Tattle Jod telegram bot, Fact-checking sites, social media and chat apps.
The Disinformation Action Lab (DAL) at Data & Society forges new approaches to address the complex dynamics underpinning the spread of propaganda and disinformation. Last publication December 2020.
JusticeAI
Palo AltoJusticeAI is an open source platform and suite of tools that strategically apply machine learning, computer vision, and metadata analysis to sort, identify, and analyze digital media.
Democracy Technologies
ViennaA magazine established to provide people working in politics and the industry of Democracy Technologies with in-depth information about new developments and technologies in the field of digital participation and deliberation, electronic voting, and other digital tools that improve political organisations.
مبادرة تغريدات (Taghreedat)
Middle East and North AfricaTaghreedat (Arabic: مبادرة تغريدات) is the largest Arabic crowdsourcing initiative in the MENA region.
Undebates
United States of America (the)Undebates web-based technology allows candidates to self-record and upload their content simply by clicking a link and following on-screen instructions.
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Media Mapping
United States of America (the)Identifying audiences via TV, internet and news consumption patterns
Hawkfish
New York CityHawkfish was a 2020 Election effort, supported by Mike Bloomberg, that engaged with Democratic candidates, allies & causes to reach the right voters with the right message in the right place using robust technology, data, and digital-first storytelling.
The DeepTrust Alliance is a global coalition of stakeholders advancing the fight against digital disinformation and deepfakes.
AFP Fact Check is a global digital verification service that tackles damaging misinformation on topics such as COVID-19 and elections.
WikiUX takes a user-centred approach to address credibility.
An open source platform aiming to engage communities and citizen journalists alongside newsroom and freelance journalists for collaborative, decentralised content verification, tracking, and debunking.
The ANCIR iLab uses forensic data science techniques to expose the networks that disseminate and amplify misinformation, disinformation, and toxic content (such as hate speech or extremism) with a special focus on coordinated inauthentic behaviour and other influence/information operations.
Ecuador Chequea
Quito, EcuadorData enriches public debate and therefore strengthens democracy. An informed society is capable of making conscious decisions.
Nepal Fact Check
NepalCenter for Media Research – Nepal (CMR Nepal) is an autonomous, research and policy-oriented, not-for-profit non-governmental policy think tank registered with Nepal Government and Social Welfare Council and is based in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal.
Latam Chequea
Latin AmericaFaced with the “infodemic”, the spread of rumors and false content, Latin American checkers join forces to share the information we produce and, by joining forces, provide better information to our communities.
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.
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.
Media Bias/Fact Check (MBFC), founded in 2015, is an independent online media outlet.
MOE Election Observation
ColombiaThe Election Observation Mission (La Misión de Observación Electoral, MOE) is an election observer group based in Colombia.
Mnemonic is an NGO dedicated to archiving, investigating and memorializing digital information documenting human rights violations and international crimes.
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 Digital Enquirer Kit is centered around misinformation, fact-based research and digital security.
Lead Stories is an innovative fact checking and debunking website at the intersection of big data and journalism that launched in 2015.
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.
Liga Contra el Silencio
ColombiaWe define ourselves as an alliance that involves the media, a central newsroom and a network of freelance collaborators.
In the age of social media, many of us ambiently consume news by reading headlines and descriptions that appear in our news feeds.
"A grant from the Knight Foundation to PBS News Hour, the Newstracker project has tasked itself with "developing a tool that combines online news content with engagement data from social media and other sources to help journalists and others better understand the scale, scope and shape of the misinformation problem." - Counteringdisinformation.org
Newscheck
India (Bhārat)Strengthening our resolve to support the fight against misinformation in India, Internews is delighted to announce that in partnership with DataLEADS and with the support of Google.org, we will be launching a new news literacy project in India aimed at empowering the general public by helping them learn how to critically assess the information they see online and navigate news.
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