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Publi Ou Fake
Brazil (Brasil)Uma cartilha em que trazemos ferramentas para que profissionais da área de marketing e publicidade possam navegar melhor e com mais confiança frente às complexidades da relação entre publicidade e desinformação.
Forum on Information & Democracy
Paris, FranceProviding democratic safeguards to the global communication and information space
Viral Spiral
IndiaViral Spiral is an adaptive digital card game about sharing news on the Internet. The game reflects the ways and reasons misinformation is shared, letting players experience first hand the temptation to share fake news for their own gain and face the consequences of the harm it causes around them.
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.
PolétikaRD Chequeos
C. Josefa Perdomo 160 Santo Domingo, Dominican RepublicFact-checking in the Dominican Republic
NDI's Google Sheet of guides, trainings, and reports on digital disinformation
Khoj was a service that makes it easy to verify messages you receive on your social media accounts.
The WhatsApp archiver consolidates chat files exported from different WhatsApp conversations into one database. The scraper relies on WhatsApp's export chat feature which allows 40,000 messages to be exported without media and 10,000 to be exported with media. If a media item has not been downloaded to your phone, it cannot be exported through the export chat feature. The archiver removes overlaps in different files exported from a chat; and anonymizes sender and group names.
Archive containing content scraped from all the different sources- the Tattle Jod telegram bot, Fact-checking sites, social media and chat apps.
This interactive dashboard displays the themes in fact-checking articles we scraped from IFCN-certified websites in the selected week.
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Media Matters for Democracy Courses
PakistanTwo courses - Understanding Citizen Journalism and Digital Disinformation and Journalistic Responsibilities
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.
Wikimedians Strengthening Knowledge and News Credibility on the Internet
Cite Unseen is a Wikipedia user script that helps readers quickly evaluate the sources used in a given English Wikipedia article. The script adds iconic indicators to identified sources that indicate various attributes of the source, such as if the source is a news article, opinion piece, or government-controlled.
El Chequeador es una plataforma educativa diseñada por el equipo de Chequeado para el desarrollo de cursos virtuales sobre Alfabetización Mediática e Informacional, desinformación, fact checking y otros temas relacionados.
Es una plataforma abierta para verificar contenidos a pedido de la comunidad.
Digital democracy: analysis of the disinformation ecosystems on Telegram during the 2022 Brazilian electoral process
Brazil (Brasil)Understand the role of the Telegram app in the dissemination of disinformation among Brazilian far-right groups and Analyse (online) radicalization process and (offline) political violence against democratic institutions, especially the Brazilian presidential election in October 2022
WhatsApp Third Party Fact-Checkers
San FranciscoEnd-to-end fact-checking on the WhatsApp Business API organized by Meedan
To contribute to countering disinformation on COVID-19 and promoting healthy behaviours, UNESCO has produced a series of audio messages that can be freely used by radio stations from around the world.
Logically
LondonLogically works to tackle the individual, institutional, and societal harms caused by misleading and deceptive online discourse.
Wikirumours
CanadaWikiRumours is a web-based database which enables geographically distributed teams to collaborate asynchronously on monitoring, verifying, and countering the spread of harmful rumours and misinformation.
Chequeado's WhatsApp bot
Latin AmericaLatin American fact-checking organization's Whatsapp bot to make it easier for people to ask for fact-checks
Disinfo Database
EuropeEU vs Disinfo's database of over 12,000 samples of pro-Kremlin disinformation
A guide by InterAction written for civil society organizations
SocialTIC
South AmericaSocialTIC es una organización sin fines de lucro dedicada a la investigación, formación, acompañamiento y promoción de la tecnología digital e información para fines sociales.Conoce nuestros proyectos, reflexiones y recomendaciones sobre infoactivismo, datos abiertos y seguridad digital
InfoActivismo
South AmericaA collection of tactics, cases, and guides to using information for activism
A chart of thousands of media sources based on source reliability and surveys of perceived political biases
The Propagandists' Playbook
United States of America (the)How Conservative Elites Manipulate Search and Threaten Democracy, by Francesca Bolla Tripodi
Ellinika Hoaxes
GreeceΤα «ellinikahoaxes.gr» είναι ο μοναδικός ελληνικός ιστότοπος κατά της παραπληροφόρησης και η μοναδική συντονισμένη προσπάθεια κατάρριψης αναληθών δημοσιευμάτων στο ελληνικό διαδίκτυο. Εργαλεία μας, η έρευνα, η συλλογή στοιχείων και πληροφοριών από αξιόπιστες πηγές και σωστή αξιολόγηση τους.
Cazadores de Fake News
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)Somos una comunidad crowdsourcing que monitorea la desinformación difundidas en cadenas de WhatsApp y redes sociales entre venezolanos. Nuestro centro de operaciones es un grupo de Telegram abierto en el que analizamos colectivamente la información que recibimos.
IDADI is our flagship data journalism project, in collaboration with The Infographics Studio, to disseminate, visualize and democratize official data on TikTok to allow Kenyans participate in decision making and enhance government accountability.
Hoax Buster Tools
IndonesiaMobile app to help easily check the veracity of an information - article, image, video, etc.
A February 2021 report by Polaris, The Soufan Group, and Limbik
Brown Information Futures Lab
Brown UniversityOur lab is where technology, innovation, policy and community meet, one pilot at a time.
Global Disinformation Lab at UT Austin
Austin, TXThe Global DisInformation Lab (GDIL) was established in 2020 at the University of Texas at Austin to encourage collaborative interdisciplinary academic research on the global circulation of misinformation, and disinformation.
Information Futures Lab Fellows Program
Brown UniversityThe Information Futures Fellowship is a novel opportunity for practitioners in public health, healthcare, community organizations, media, policy, design and other fields who are actively working on responses to the ongoing information crisis.
A bot that debunks claims shared on social media by sharing a fact check.
Track the trolls & sock-puppets poisoning our democracies
The African Digital Democracy Observatory (ADDO) is offering a series of seed grants and additional technical support for targeted research into how both state-affiliated and other lobbyist groups use influence/information operations and disinformation and targeted propaganda to subvert African democracies. The initial research grants focus on four countries: Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and Senegal.
ADDO is a coalition of investigative analysis + forensic research organisations that monitor how digital tools and civic technologies impact on the rights of African citizens. The Medium publication covers disinfo trends, provides micro-grant funding to research fellows, and publishes investigations, as well as tools and resources for fighting disinformation.
A.N.C.I.R. Misinfo
AfricaA project investigating the stories and the data behind fake news in Africa
Interviews with 90 respondents
An ongoing series of reports about ad-funded disinformation
Watchdog
Sri LankaWatchdog is a multidisciplinary team of factcheckers, journalists, researchers and software engineers. We hunt hoaxes and misinformation, investigate matters of public welfare, and build software tools that help operations like ours.
AFP Fact Check is a global digital verification service that tackles damaging misinformation on topics such as COVID-19 and elections.
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.
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