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CongoCheck
Congo (the Democratic Republic of the)Congo Check est un média spécialisé dans la vérification des faits ou factchecking. Congo Check est un projet de l'ASBL/ONG Initiative des fact-chechekers du Congo, IFC.
Communalytic is a computational social science research tool for studying online communities and discourse.
Liga Contra el Silencio
ColombiaWe define ourselves as an alliance that involves the media, a central newsroom and a network of freelance collaborators.
A user guide for civil society organizations and researchers to assess the vulnerability of a country’s electoral integrity to online manipulation.
Civil Network OPORA
01021 KyivOne of the leading non-governmental and non-partisan All-Ukrainian organizations for public oversight and advocacy in the field of elections, parliamentarism, education, joint ownership, energy efficiency, local self-government, as well as the comprehensive implementation of the principle of open data.
Linterna Verde
BogotáLinterna Verde do Research on the online public debate based on areas of interest. They seek to make our work accessible, useful and actionable for civil society, the media and government.
Dubawa
NigeriaDUBAWA is Nigeria’s independent verification and fact-checking platform, initiated by the Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism (PTCIJ) and supported by the most influential newsrooms and civic organisations in the country to help amplify the culture of truth in public discourse, public policy, and media practice.
Easily see if a news site offers credible news or should not be trusted and is un-credible/dodgy.
Youtube DataViewer
Mountain View, CA, USA"The Youtube Dataviewer is a tool that allows users to extract metadata from Youtube videos." - Counteringdisinformation.org
WikiUX takes a user-centred approach to address credibility.
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.
A Browser Extension for Adding Context to Online Stories by Suggesting Related Wikipedia Articles
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.
AFP Fact Check is a global digital verification service that tackles damaging misinformation on topics such as COVID-19 and elections.
Initiative for Media Freedom
Philippines (the)The Initiative for Media Freedom (IMF) is a five-year program implemented by Internews and funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
Dutch Code of Conduct Transparency Online Political Advertisements
Netherlands (Nederland, Holland)This Code of Conduct was published to address the issues of election transparency and disinformation in the digital sphere.
The DeepTrust Alliance is a global coalition of stakeholders advancing the fight against digital disinformation and deepfakes.
Polygraph.info is a fact-checking website produced by Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
Troll Factory
Finland (Suomi)Troll Factory was developed by a team of experts at Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company.
Daily, journalists from Aos Fatos follow statements by politicians and authorities of national expression, from different party colors, in order to verify if they are speaking the truth. For this, we adopted a formula with seven steps to carry out our checks.
Animal Politico's fact-checking project. "Fooling a dog is difficult."
Argentina's Ethical Digital Commitment
Buenos Aires"Pledge signed by political parties and technology/social network companies committing to avoiding fake news and mechanisms of disinformation that may affect upcoming elections." - Countering Disinfo
The conversations that trend on internet platforms shape our world in consequential ways, from who we vote for, to what news we read, to how we respond to a pandemic.
The Trust Project, a consortium of top news companies led by award-winning journalist Sally Lehrman, is developing transparency standards that help you easily assess the quality and credibility of journalism.
"Sponsored partly by Microsoft, Newsguard is a plugin for browsers such as Chrome, Mozilla, and Microsoft's Edge that validates news websites for users based on 9 journalistic integrity criteria." - Counteringdisinformation.org
PolitiTruth is a non-profit game of distinguishing political fact from fiction.
Masyarakat Anti Fitnah Indonesia
Indonesiacekfakta.com adalah sebuah sebuah proyek kolaboratif pengecekan fakta yang dibangun di atas API Yudistira oleh MAFINDO ( Masyarakat Anti Fitnah Indonesia ) dan bekerja sama dengan beberapa media online yang tergabung di AJI ( Aliansi Jurnalis Independen ) dan AMSI ( Asosiasi Media Siber Indonesia ) serta didukung oleh Google News Initiative dan Internews serta FirstDraft. cekfakta.com pertama kali diluncurkan di acara ‘Trusted Media Summit 2018’ yang diadakan di Jakarta pada Sabtu, 5 Mei 2018 setelah penandatangan MOU oleh 22 Pemred dan Ketua Mafindo.
Factly
HyderabadFactly strives to cultivate civic participation and engaging citizens in accessing, understanding, and using important government data/information at various levels
Tattle
India (Bhārat)Tattle is a group of technologists, researchers, journalists and artists. We build tools and datasets to better understand and respond to (mis)information trends on chat apps and regional language social media in India.
Digital Democracy Room
Rio de JaneiroThe Digital Democracy Room is an initiative of FGV DAPP to monitor the public debate on the internet and fight disinformation strategies which threaten the integrity of political and electoral processes, seeking to strengthen the democratic institutions.
NewseumED.org offers free resources to cultivate the First Amendment and media literacy skills essential to civic life.
Was a prototype to help newsrooms crowdsource better information about the communities they serve, by Wikipedians
The purpose of the “Ethical Principles of Candidates of 28 October 2018 Presidential Elections” was to establish guidelines for presidential candidates during their election campaigns.
Connects academic research on disinformation threats and vulnerability to governments, CSOs, technology firms, political organizations.
FightHoax offered a seamless way to extract actionable insights from news, allowing DSPs to increase the advertising ROI for their customers, through smart brand safety filters and deep contextual targeting.
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 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.
In 12 episodes, Jay Smooth teaches you Media Literacy! Based on an introductory college level curriculum, this series takes you through the history and psychology of media and gives you the skills to become more media savvy.
Doble Check
University of Costa RicaDoble Check is a public discourse auditing project financed by the University of Costa Rica and which operates as a project affiliated with Radio Stations UCR.
Open & Disclose aims to provide a platform for media organisations, journalists, columnists, and commentators to make public their interests, with the aim of strengthening institutional credibility, accountability, transparency, and trustworthiness.
The Content Blockchain Project was initiated in 2016 by a consortium of publishing, law and IT companies to research the possibilities of using blockchain technologies to advance the content and media ecosystem.
Introducing an open-source browser extension that helps you thwart targeted advertising on Facebook. Not updated since 2018.
Hablatam
ITS Rio - Rua da Assembléia - Centro, Rio de Janeiro - State of Rio de Janeiro, BrazilResearch project into how young people use tech and media
Project Look Sharp Media Curriculum
Ithaca, New YorkProject Look Sharp is a nonprofit, mission-driven outreach program of Ithaca College.
Projeto Credibilidade
Brazil (Brasil)The Trust Project develops transparency standards that help people assess the quality and credibility of journalism.
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