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Liga Contra el Silencio
ColombiaWe define ourselves as an alliance that involves the media, a central newsroom and a network of freelance collaborators.
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.
Never before has the need for News Literacy been more urgent.
IREX’s Learn to Discern approach helps citizens recognize and resist disinformation, propaganda, and hate speech.
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, PhilippinesThe Manilla Principles on Intermediary Liability define various principles for intermediary companies to follow when operating in democratic and authoritarian environments, including that: Intermediaries should be shielded from liability for third-party content; Content must not be required to be restricted without an order by a judicial authority; Requests for restrictions of content must be clear, be unambiguous, and follow due process; Laws and content restriction orders and practices must comply with the tests of necessity and proportionality
Easily see if a news site offers credible news or should not be trusted and is un-credible/dodgy.
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.
Lead Stories is an innovative fact checking and debunking website at the intersection of big data and journalism that launched in 2015.
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.
AFP Fact Check is a global digital verification service that tackles damaging misinformation on topics such as COVID-19 and elections.
The African Fact-Checking Alliance (AFCA) is a network of media and civil society organizations that work to counter misinformation. The network supports fact-checking missions to debunk dangerous content, including conspiracy theories and misinformation.
Poynter's global guide on existing attempts to legislate against what can broadly be referred to as online misinformation. This guide seeks to create an inclusive, collaborative approach to addressing misinformation around the world. While not every law contained here relates to misinformation specifically, they’ve all often been wrapped into that broader discussion. Article will be updated on an ongoing basis.
The initiative will empower investigative media and watchdog NGOs in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, and Senegal.
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.
Aggie is an open-source social and online media aggregation tool designed specifically for monitoring events in real time.
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.
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.
A report analyzing the online environment and potential risks for the 2021 German Federal Elections.
Alternative News Networks
Oxford, UKThis project seeks to understand the health of the UK online information ecosystem, including tracking the spread of divisive and misleading content.
A global map ranking countries by their Freedom of Information laws
An open technical standard providing publishers, creators, and consumers the ability to trace the origin of different types of media.
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.
We want to change the way the internet enables the spread of news and information so it serves the public good over corporate and political interests.
The Internet Archive has started to surface some of these annotations for Wayback Machine users.
Confirmado
GuatemalaGuatemalan 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.
"The aim of The Good Information Project is to claim back and own the inform in information."
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.
Copia Gaming is our ongoing initiative to design and facilitate a variety of games that explore serious and important subjects.
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.
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, NYThrough 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, USAA prototype to display factchecks in real-time on live TV
FactStream
The Washington Post, K Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USAThe FactStream iOS app brings together the work of three of the largest U.S. fact-checking organizations, The Washington Post, PolitiFact and FactCheck.org.
MediaReview
Duke University, Durham, NC, USAA sibling to ClaimReview that allows fact-checkers to identify whether a video or image has been manipulated.
We’re an online community of critical thinkers vetting the most-shared news articles on the Internet.
Community Notes (formerly Birdwatch)
San FranciscoTwitter's community-based approach to misinformation
Investigating disinformation campaigns by Russia during its invasion of Ukraine
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.
Russia-Ukraine Monitor Map
UkraineIn January 2022, CIR launched the Eyes on Russia project to collect and verify videos, photos, satellite imagery, or other media related to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The goal of the project is simple: to provide the world with timely and reliable information concerning the impact of Russia's invasion on Ukraine and its people.
(Mis)informed
St. Petersburg, Florida, USAThe International Fact-Checking Network is releasing a limited-run podcast about fact-checking and fake news.
The Reporters’ Lab
Duke University, Durham, NC, USAThe 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.
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!
Code for All Summit 2021
GlobalThis year's Summit will focus on Open vs. Closed Tech in Government, Democracy & Elections, Disinformation & Fake News and Power Dynamics in Tech. We'll have different session formats: Panels, Lighting Talks and Workshops!
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.
Doublethink Labs
Taipei, TaiwanDoublethink 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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