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.

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.

Disinfo Defense League Policy Platform

The Disinfo Defense League Policy Platform is a series of legislative, executive, and international recommendations addressing disinformation.

Iffy.news

The index compiles news sites with low factual-reporting levels, as determined and documented by Media Bias/Fact Check.

Social Science One

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

Social Science One implements a new type of partnership between academic researchers and the private sector to advance the goals of social science in understanding and solving society’s greatest challenges.

BlackBird.AI

"Blackbird.AI views the spread of disinformation as one of the world’s largest threats to national security, business, and the public as a whole." - Counteringdisinformation.org

Putting Civic Online Reason In Civics Class

Stanford, CA, USA

The COR curriculum was developed by the Stanford History Education Group as part of MediaWise—a partnership of SHEG, the Poynter Institute, and the Local Media Association.

South Asia Check

Kathmandu, Nepal

South Asia Check is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit initiative by Panos South Asia which aims to promote accuracy and accountability in public debate.

Ecuador Chequea

Quito, Ecuador

Data enriches public debate and therefore strengthens democracy. An informed society is capable of making conscious decisions.

Scribe Reference API

The Scribe reference API will list references based on usage and domain by language.

hypothes.is

"The Hypothesis Project is a new effort to implement an old idea: A conversation layer over the entire web that works everywhere, without needing implementation by any underlying site."

Institute for Development of Freedom of Information MEMORY AND DISINFORMATION STUDIES

Tbilisi

Within the disinformation and memory studies direction, the Institute for Development of Freedom of Information (IDFI) team is developing tools in several ways.

RESIST Counter Disinformation Toolkit

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

UK government toolkit to help support the dissemination of reliable, truthful information that underpins our democracy.

Hoaxy

Indiana

Hoaxy is a tool that visualizes the spread of articles online.

Reveal

Luxembourg

EU research project toto advance the necessary technologies for making a higher level analysis of social media possible. Ended 2017.

Sourceror

Sourceror was meant to leverage Wikipedia’s credibility data to improve media literacy and combat disinformation on the web. It's not clear if it launched.

Sentinel Project early warning system for Kenya Election 2022

Kenya

Leading up to and following the Kenyan election on August 9 2022, the Sentinel Project is expanding its previous work in the area, from Una Hakika to 15 of Kenya's highest risk counties.

Manila Principles on Intermediary Liability

Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines

The 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

FactsMatterNg

Nigeria

The ICFJ Knight Fellowship programme in Nigeria is working with influencers and media partners to combat misinformation and fake news in the Nigerian digital media space.

Global Network Initative

1325 G Street NW, Suite 500 Washington, DC 20005

GNI helps companies respect freedom of expression and privacy rights when faced with government pressure to hand over user data, remove content, or restrict communications.

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Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism

The Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT) brings together the technology industry, government, civil society, and academia to foster collaboration and information-sharing to counter terrorist and violent extremist activity online.

rbutr

rbutr tells you when the webpage you are viewing has been disputed, rebutted or contradicted elsewhere on the internet. Last used 2013.

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Real 411

South Africa

Real411 was created to give all citizens the power to report digital disinformation during the run up to the 2019 South African National and Provincial Elections.

Pressland

Pressland is a first-of-its-kind data-intelligence platform that maps global media production in real time.

Ethiopia Check

Ethiopia

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).

Pro Truth Pledge

The Pro-Truth Pledge is a project of Intentional Insights, a volunteer-run educational nonpartisan 501(c)(3) nonprofit devoted to promoting science-based truth-seeking, rational thinking, and wise decision-making.

Project Certeza

Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico

First deployed on Election Day in 2018, Project Certeza’s purpose was to identify and deal with false information disseminated, particularly through social networks but also through any other media, that could produce uncertainty or distrust in the citizenry about the electoral authority’s responsibilities as the election is happening.

InformNapalm

Ukraine

InformNapalm is a volunteer initiative emerged as a response to the Russian aggression in Ukraine in March 2014.

A guide to anti-misinformation legal actions around the world

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.

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Botometer

Botometer (formerly BotOrNot) checks the activity of a Twitter account and gives it a score based on how likely the account is to be a bot.

African Fact-Checking Alliance (AFCA)

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.

Debunk.eu

Lithuania

DEBUNK (demaskuok in Lithuanian) is a unique Lithuania-born initiative uniting competing media outlets, journalists, volunteers for a single purpose – to make society more resilient to orchestrated disinformation campaigns.

Polétika República Dominicana

C. Josefa Perdomo 160 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Polétika República Dominicana is a group of civil society organizations and movements that work in different areas, including: health, housing and habitat, taxation, citizen security, transparency, childhood and adolescence, gender, and municipality.

PolitiTruth

PolitiTruth is a non-profit game of distinguishing political fact from fiction.

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Making Sense of the News course

Never before has the need for News Literacy been more urgent.

Bot Sentinel

In 2018 we launched Bot Sentinel to help fight disinformation and targeted harassment. We believe Twitter users should be able to engage in healthy online discourse without inauthentic accounts, toxic trolls, foreign countries, and organized groups manipulating the conversation.

X (Twitter)

Bolivia Verifica

Bolivia (Buliwya / Wuliwya / Volívia)

Bolivia Verifica is a non-profit, non-political digital media that is dedicated to the verification of false news and public discourse to fight against disinformation and improve democratic participation.

Permanent International Media Monitoring Mission on Disinformation about Ukraine and the Ukrainian diaspora

Ukraine

NGO "Ukraine-2050" is a working to counter disinformation through a media monitoring program.

Newschecker

India

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

Our.News

"Our.News - now in its beta - provides in-sight tools and add-ons that fact check news stories aggregated from across the internet on the spot." - Counteringdisinformation.org

AFRICMIL

Abuja, Nigeria

AFRICMIL 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.

Detektor Media

Ukraine

Media Detector is a non-governmental organization established by Ukrainian journalists in January 2004.

Chequea Bolivia

Bolivia (Buliwya / Wuliwya / Volívia)

A fundamental pillar of the democratic system is that there is freedom of expression and dissemination, and that citizens are duly informed to make correct decisions in their daily lives.

Facebook Digital Literacy Library

United States of America (the)

The Facebook Digital Literacy Library is hosted by Facebook and currently includes learning resources made available by Youth and Media at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.

Dogruluk Payi

Turkey

Dogruluk Payi is a Turkish fact checking website

Fiskkit

Fiskkit allows news readers to annotate the news line by line

Credibility Coalition

The Credibility Coalition brings people together to develop common standards for information credibility.

Nepal Fact Check

Nepal

Center 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.