Civic Tech Field Guide

Rappler Fact Check

Rappler values truth-telling, facts, and factual reporting.

PubliElectoral

Buenos Aires, Argentina

PubliElectoral is a technological tool of social interest that allows the collection of information related to electoral advertising on social networks without affecting the privacy of citizen users.

NoBias

In the age of social media, many of us ambiently consume news by reading headlines and descriptions that appear in our news feeds.

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Netvizz

Netvizz is a data collection and extraction application that allows researchers to export data in standard file formats from different sections of the Facebook social networking service.

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News Integrity Initiative

CUNY Graduate Center

The News Integrity Initative is a global consortium focused on helping people make informed judgments about the news they read and share online.

Nepal Election Commission Code of Conduct

Nepal

Lead Stories

Lead Stories is an innovative fact checking and debunking website at the intersection of big data and journalism that launched in 2015.

Iffy Quotient

University of Michigan, South State Street, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

The Iffy Quotient is a metric for how much content from “Iffy” sites has been amplified on Facebook and Twitter.

Mafindo

Indonesia

Served as a center for clarification of issues suspected to be hoaxes.

Fuzzify.me

Introducing an open-source browser extension that helps you thwart targeted advertising on Facebook. Not updated since 2018.

Fakeblok

A plug-in that flags fake news directly on social media to prevent you from clicking or sharing articles that intentionally mislead and disinform.

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Ethiopia Check

Ethiopia (Ityop'iya)

Ethiopia Check debunks claims and exposes fake news using its platforms on Facebook (52,000 followers), Twitter (7,000 followers) and Telegram (34,000 followers).

EU Code of Practice on Disinformation

Europe

The European Union developed a Code of Practice on Disinformation based on the findings of its High Level Working Group on the issue.

During the months leading up to the 2018 presidential election , students at the Énois School of Journalism in São Paulo and the youth of data_lab in Rio checked weekly for facts and rumors that could impact on the electoral process, Whatsapp networks - mostly young and peripheral.

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Digital Polarization Initiative

The Digital Polarization Initiative, or “DigiPo”, is ADP's national effort to build student civic, information and web literacy by having students participate in a broad, cross-institutional project to fact-check, annotate, and provide context to the different news stories that show up in our Twitter and Facebook feeds.

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Digit Eye

India (Bhārat)

Digiteye India is an independent digital news fact-checking venture by a small group of veteran journalists who came together to bring forth authentic facts behind daily news and claims being passed on as news, social media messages and views.

MOE Election Observation

Colombia

The Election Observation Mission (La Misión de Observación Electoral, MOE) is an election observer group based in Colombia.

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.

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MozCheck

Mozambique (Mocambique)

MozCheck was the first fact checking organization in Mozambique.

Widely Viewed Content Dashboard

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.

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Pulso

United States of America (the)

Keeping the pulse on and raising up nuestra gente

The Institute for Digital Public Infrastructure

iDPI looks to move beyond "fixing" existing internet infrastructures like Google, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter and asks what we might build if we constructed digital spaces for the public good instead.

Ad Observer

Political campaigns spend a lot of money to reach voters on Facebook. Are they telling the truth? Are they saying different things to different people? Help hold them accountable by installing our browser plugin, which sends us the ads you see on Facebook.

AR Developer Challenge Communities

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. Developers for the AR Challenge events will use technologies like Facebook’s Spark AR platform and other AR solutions to compete for prizes and community recognition. Organized by US Ignite and Facebook Reality Labs

Ad Observatory

Explore Facebook and Instagram Political Ads

ICT Evidence Portal Africa

Canada

Research ICT Solutions Ltd. is a boutique consultancy based in Canada and South Africa. Started in 2013, we have built a select list of clients who need simple but effective tools to make better decisions. RIS targets the policy and regulatory intersection between policy makers, regulators and the private sector. Our clients range from country regulators, international donor organisations to multi-national companies like Facebook.

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Connectivity

ClaimReview Project

Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

A tagging system for fact-checks

ActionSprout

ActionSprout, Commercial Street, Bellingham, WA, USA

ActionSprout makes it easy to find curated content, schedule posts, manage Facebook ads, and create donations and petitions to grow your following!

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Ad Watch

Arizona, USA

ad.watch breaks open the machine of political advertisements on Facebook and Instagram with data of more than 150 parties in 34 countries.

2020 Political Atlas

Our goal is to provide multiple independent data sources allowing everyone to reach their own conclusions on what will happen in the 2020 elections.

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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.

Eligibee

Berkeley

Eligibee is a free nonprofit tool that helps you find and apply for government assistance, making it easier to get the food, healthcare, and income supports you need today.

fábrica de bots

Monterrey

Tu empresa en WhatsApp (Facebook, Instagram, …)

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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.

Memria

Civic Hall, West 22nd Street, New York, NY, USA

MEMRIA uses the power of voice to help our partners further their missions.

Team app

With Team, users join an online community of supporters and speak directly with their friends about the causes and candidates they care about.

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OurGoods

OurGoods is a resource sharing network for the creative community. Our members trade skills, spaces and objects to get their work done without money. We run live events, a facebook group, and a newsletter.

WhatsApp Research Awards for Social Science and Misinformation

Menlo Park, California, United States

For this first phase of our program, WhatsApp is commissioning a competitive set of awards to researchers interested in exploring issues that are related to misinformation on WhatsApp.

Outfox AI

New York City

Outfox AI is an intuitive, low-cost Facebook ad-buying platform for down-ballot progressive campaigns and causes.

Covid-19 Mutual Aid UK

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

A directory of over 900 COVID mutual aid local groups all across the UK, mostly via Facebook groups, and a backgrounder on what they are and how to start one.

Upwell Attention Lab

San Francisco

We play a unique role, experimenting with injecting conservation messaging into online conversations about the ocean. We do this through “attention campaigns.”

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Oradea City Report

Oradea City Report este o aplicaţie pentru telefonul mobil sau tabletă, gratuită, simplă şi intuitivă, care permite cetăţenilor cu spirit civic să transmită diverse sesizări şi incidente către Primăria Oradea şi operatorii serviciilor publice locale (Compania de Apă Oradea, Oradea Transport Local, Termoficare Oradea, Poliţia Locală Oradea, RER Ecologic Service).Problemele punctuale din cartierele orașului, cum ar fi gropi în asfalt, câini comunitari, resturi menajere sau moloz aruncate la întâmplare, gunoi în mijloacele de transport, disfuncţionalităţi în iluminatul public, coşuri de gunoi vandalizate, vehicule abandonate, blocaje din cauza zăpezii, avarii apă rece şi caldă, canalizare înfundată etc, pot fi transmise direct de pe dispozitivul mobil către dispeceratele operatorilor de servicii publice, pentru a acţiona cu promptitudine şi a limita eventualele pagube.Sesizările transmise vor fi însoţite de fotografie, descriere şi localizare GPS, oferind autorităţilor identificarea exactă a locaţiei incidentelor. Raportează o problemă şi vei primi răspuns la sesizarea ta direct pe telefonul mobil!Noutăţi:Vizitează pagina Primăriei Oradea: http://www.oradea.roConectează-te cu noi pe Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PrimariaOradeaProbleme? Sugestii?Oradea City Report este o aplicaţie dezvoltată de Mobiversal. Aşteptăm să ne scrieţi pe http://www.mobiversal.com sau pe [email protected]. Cu cât aflăm mai multe de la voi, cu atât aplicaţia poate să devină mai bună.

Defusor

Factory 619, 66 bis Avenue Salah Ben Youssef, Tunis, Tunisia

We leverage both AI and Human Expertise to allow everyone to check facts, understand News sources and content, empower truth and consolidate responsible Brands and Media in the MENA region.