Civic Tech Field Guide

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.

Newschecker

India (Bhārat)

At Newschecker, it is our aim to limit and crackdown the spread of fake news in society.

Poynter's Factually helps fact-checkers, educators, journalists and citizens get at the truth. Written by the International Fact-Checking Network’s reporter Harrison Mantas, Factually highlights interesting fact-checks, dives into global misinformation trends and features fact-checking and media literacy training opportunities.

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.

trainings

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.

apps

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.

(Mis)informed

St. Petersburg, Florida, USA

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

podcasts

Alt News

Ahmedabad

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

211CHECK

Juba

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

Africa Check

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

Africa Check is an independent, non-profit fact-checking organisation that aims to promote accuracy in public debate and the media in Africa.

Factchecking

Chequeado

Argentina

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

Poynter Institute

Poynter is a global leader in journalism that seeks to advance the growing movement of fact-checking around the world through education, dialogue, and digital storytelling.

Tsek.ph

University of the Philippines Diliman, Roxas Avenue, Diliman, Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines

A collaborative fact-checking project for the Philippines’ 2019 elections bringing together 11 news organizations and 3 universities to counter disinformation and provide the public with verified information

InVID Verification Plugin

"Verification Swiss Army knife", including lookups of video clips to find them in context elsewhere

extensions

FactNameh

Islamic Republic of Iran (Īrān)

Factchecking Iranian public officials and media

Trump-o-Meter

1100 Connecticut Ave. NW Suite 1300B Washington, DC 20036

Tracking Donald Trump's Campaign Promises. It is a project by the fact-checking organization Politifact.

PesaCheck

East Africa

PesaCheck is a fact-checking initiative to verify the financial and other statistical numbers quoted by public figures across East Africa, supported by International Budget Partnership, and Code for Africa affiliates in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.

indigenous

Global Factchecking Summit

In the four years since fact-checkers around the world first gathered in London for the inaugural Global Fact-Checking Summit, a lot has happened

Vistinomer

North Macedonia (Severna Makedonija)

Holds you Accountable! Macedonian fact-checking outlet

Politifact

Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

PolitiFact is a fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others on its Truth-O-Meter.

Cofact Thailand

Bangkok, Thailand

Fight Misinformation in Thailand with Chatbot Fact-Checking

LINE

Factual

Romania

Primul site de fact-checking pe politicile și declarațiile publice din România.

Stowarzyszenie Demagog

Katowice, Poland

Demagog Association is Poland's first factchecking organization. It's main aim is the improvement of the quality of the public debate through unbiased and reliable information.

AP debunks election misinformation on Facebook

As part of its comprehensive fact-checking efforts, The Associated Press announced that it will work with Facebook to identify and debunk false and misleading stories related to the U.S. midterm election that are circulating on the platform.

Facebook

MetaFact

India (Bhārat)

Validated Real Time Information

Tech & Check Conference

Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

As part of its Tech & Check Cooperative, the Reporters’ Lab is serving as a hub for automated fact-checking to connect journalists and technologists around the world. The conference gave them an opportunity to demonstrate current projects and discuss the big challenges of automation.