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Factchecking

Factchecking is a longstanding approach to fighting disinformation, where individual claims, speeches, and rumors can be researched and verified or debunked.

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Rappler Fact Check
rappler.com/section/newsbreak/fact-check

Rappler Fact Check

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

Media, Fight disinformation, Factchecking
Raskrinkavanje
raskrinkavanje.ba/medij/rtrs

Raskrinkavanje

The Raskrinkavanje.ba platform was launched by the team of the "Why Not" organization, which has many years of experience in fact-checking, through work on checking the accuracy and consistency of sta...

Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosna i Hercegovina / Босна и Херцеговина) 🇧🇦
Media, Fight disinformation, Factchecking
polygraph.info
polygraph.info

polygraph.info

Polygraph.info is a fact-checking website produced by Voice of America (VOA)​ and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

Media, Fight disinformation, Factchecking
Newschecker
newschecker.in

Newschecker

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

India (Bhārat) 🇮🇳
Media, Fight disinformation, Factchecking
Nepal Fact Check
research.butmedia.org

Nepal Fact Check

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 Coun...

Nepal 🇳🇵
Media, Fight disinformation, Factchecking
Myth Detector
mythdetector.ge

Myth Detector

Fact-checking and media literacy

Georgia (Sakartvelo) 🇬🇪
Media, Fight disinformation, Factchecking
Namibia Fact Check
namibiafactcheck.org.na

Namibia Fact Check

Namibia Fact Check is an impartial initiative that aims to verify public statements and media reports.

Namibia 🇳🇦
Media, Fight disinformation, Factchecking
Learn to Discern (L2D) - Media Literacy Training
irex.org/project/learn-discern

Learn to Discern (L2D) - Media Literacy Training

IREX’s Learn to Discern approach builds resilience to manipulative information by empowering those who engage with media and information to navigate it in a safe, critical, responsible, healthy, and e...

Media, Fight disinformation, Media literacy
trainings
Latam Chequea
chequeado.com/latamcoronavirus

Latam Chequea

Faced with the “infodemic”, the spread of rumors and false content, Latin American checkers join forces to share the information we produce and, by joining forces, provide better information to our co...

Latin America
Media, Fight disinformation, Partner networks and coalitions
Lead Stories
leadstories.com

Lead Stories

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

Media, Fight disinformation, Factchecking
Mafindo
mafindo.or.id

Mafindo

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

Indonesia 🇮🇩
Media, Fight disinformation, Factchecking
Social Media Hoax Slayer
smhoaxslayer.com

Social Media Hoax Slayer

In the last few years, the Social Media having a wider reach and faster, started polluting human minds by anti-social elements, wrong doers, pranksters etc.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Media, Fight disinformation, Factchecking
GhanaFact
ghanafact.com

GhanaFact

Ghana’s first full-time fact-checking organisation signatory to the International Fact-checking Network (IFCN) Code of Principles.

Ghana 🇬🇭
Media, Fight disinformation, Factchecking
Factly
factly.in

Factly

Factly strives to cultivate civic participation and engaging citizens in accessing, understanding, and using important government data/information at various levels

Hyderabad
Media, Fight disinformation, Factchecking
Fact Check Initiative Japan
fij.info

Fact Check Initiative Japan

FIJ is a non-profit organization for the promotion of Japanese fact-checking aimed at protecting society from mis/disinformation.

Japan (Nihon or Nippon) 🇯🇵
Media, Fight disinformation, Factchecking
Fact Crescendo
factcrescendo.com

Fact Crescendo

Fact Crescendo is an independent, unbiased fact-checking website that is committed to bringing the fact behind every news, debunking mis-interpreted & hoax news on a daily basis on false, mis-informed...

Crescendo Transcription Pvt Ltd, STPI, # 23, 24, 25 & 26, 2nd Floor, Naregaon Main Rd, MIDC Industrial Area, Chilkalthana, Aurangabad, Maharashtra 431201 India
Media, Fight disinformation, Factchecking
Ethiopia Check
ethiopiacheck.org

Ethiopia Check

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).

Ethiopia (Ityop'iya) 🇪🇹
Media, Fight disinformation, Factchecking
El Sabueso
animalpolitico.com/sabueso

El Sabueso

Animal Politico's fact-checking project. "Fooling a dog is difficult."

Mexico (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) 🇲🇽
Media, Fight disinformation, Factchecking
Ecuador Chequea
ecuadorchequea.com

Ecuador Chequea

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

Quito, Ecuador
Media, Fight disinformation, Factchecking
Dubawa
dubawa.org

Dubawa

DUBAWA 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...

Nigeria 🇳🇬
Media, Fight disinformation, Factchecking
Efecto Cocuyo Chequea
efectococuyo.com/category/cocuyo-chequea

Efecto Cocuyo Chequea

We are an independent Venezuelan media, which uses all its platforms for the free exercise of journalism and access to information.

Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of 🇻🇪
Media, Fight disinformation, Factchecking
DisinfoWatch
disinfowatch.org

DisinfoWatch

DisinfoWatch is a Canadian foreign disinformation monitoring and debunking platform.

Canada 🇨🇦
Media, Fight disinformation, Factchecking
Dogruluk Payi
dogrulukpayi.com

Dogruluk Payi

Dogruluk Payi is a Turkish fact checking website

Turkey (Turkiye) 🇹🇷
Media, Fight disinformation, Factchecking
Doble Check
doblecheck.cr

Doble Check

Doble 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.

University of Costa Rica
Media, Fight disinformation, Factchecking
Digit Eye
digiteye.in

Digit Eye

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 o...

India (Bhārat) 🇮🇳
Media, Fight disinformation, Factchecking
MediaBiasFactCheck
mediabiasfactcheck.com/methodology

MediaBiasFactCheck

Media Bias/Fact Check (MBFC), founded in 2015, is an independent online media outlet.

Media, Fight disinformation, Factchecking
Chequea Bolivia
chequeabolivia.bo

Chequea Bolivia

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.

Bolivia (Buliwya / Wuliwya / Volívia) 🇧🇴
Media, Fight disinformation, Factchecking
Masyarakat Anti Fitnah Indonesia
mafindo.or.id/tentang-kami/visi-misi

Masyarakat Anti Fitnah Indonesia

cekfakta.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 onlin...

Indonesia 🇮🇩
Media, Fight disinformation, Factchecking
Centre for Democracy & Development Fact Check program
cddwestafrica.org/fact-checks

Centre for Democracy & Development Fact Check program

Media, Fight disinformation, Factchecking
Bolivia Verifica
boliviaverifica.bo

Bolivia Verifica

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 participat...

Bolivia (Buliwya / Wuliwya / Volívia) 🇧🇴
Media, Fight disinformation, Factchecking
BOOM
boomlive.in

BOOM

BOOM is an independent digital journalism initiative. We are India’s premier fact checking website, committed to bring to our readers verified facts rather than opinion. When there is a claim, we will...

Mumbai
Factchecking, Fight disinformation, Media
Aos Fatos
aosfatos.org

Aos Fatos

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...

Media, Fight disinformation, Factchecking
Agência Lupa
piaui.folha.uol.com.br/lupa

Agência Lupa

The Magnifier is the first news agency in Brazil to specialize in journalistic technique known worldwide as fact-checking and was founded on November 1, 2015.

Brazil (Brasil) 🇧🇷
Media, Fight disinformation, Factchecking
Annir Initiative
annir.ly

Annir Initiative

Annir is a non-partisan digital initiative specialized in raising awareness about Media & Information Literacy and Digital Safety.

Libya (Libiyah) 🇱🇾
Media, Fight disinformation, Factchecking
African Fact-Checking Alliance (AFCA)
medium.com/africanfactcheckingalliance

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 con...

Africa
Media, Fight disinformation, Factchecking
Agence France-Presse (AFP) Fact Check
factcheck.afp.com

Agence France-Presse (AFP) Fact Check

AFP Fact Check is a global digital verification service that tackles damaging misinformation on topics such as COVID-19 and elections.

France 🇫🇷
Media, Fight disinformation, Factchecking
Factually
poynter.org/subscribe-to-factually

Factually

Poynter's Factually helps fact-checkers, educators, journalists and citizens get at the truth

Factchecking, Newsletters
Fact Checks for Internet Archive Wayback Machine Pages
blog.archive.org/2020/10/30/fact-checks-and-context-for-wayback-machine-pages

Fact Checks for Internet Archive Wayback Machine Pages

The Internet Archive has started to surface some of these annotations for Wayback Machine users.

San Francisco
Fight disinformation, Archives, Factchecking
MediaReview
claimreviewproject.com/mediareview/home

MediaReview

A sibling to ClaimReview that allows fact-checkers to identify whether a video or image has been manipulated.

Duke University, Durham, NC
Fight disinformation, Factchecking, Data schemas and standards
FactStream
itunes.apple.com/us/app/factstream/id1327422405?ls=1&mt=8

FactStream

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.

The Washington Post, K Street Northwest, Washington, DC
Fight disinformation, Factchecking
apps
CORRECTIV.Faktencheck
correctiv.org/faktencheck

CORRECTIV.Faktencheck

Fakten für die Demokratie

Huyssenallee 11 45128 Essen
Factchecking, Fight disinformation
(Mis)informed
poynter.org/news/were-launching-podcast-about-fact-checking-and-misinformation

(Mis)informed

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

St. Petersburg, Florida
since 2018
The Tech, Media, Fight disinformation
podcasts
The Reporters’ Lab
reporterslab.org

The Reporters’ Lab

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 tru...

Duke University, Durham, NC
The Tech, Media, Fight disinformation
Alt News
altnews.in

Alt News

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

Ahmedabad
The Tech, Media, Fight disinformation
211CHECK
211check.org

211CHECK

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

Juba
Factchecking, Fight disinformation, Media
WhatsApp, Facebook, workshops
Chequeado
chequeado.com

Chequeado

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

Argentina 🇦🇷
since 2010
Media, Fight disinformation, Factchecking
Correctiv
correctiv.org

Correctiv

Correctiv is a German non-profit newsroom that investigates injustices and abuses of power, and runs educational programs on journalism and media literacy.

Essen
Media, Fight disinformation, Factchecking
Africa Check
africacheck.org

Africa Check

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

South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika) 🇿🇦
Factchecking
Faktograf
faktograf.hr

Faktograf

Croatian media specializing in fact checking, that is, verifying the factual accuracy of claims in public space.

Croatia (Hrvatska) 🇭🇷
Factchecking, Fight disinformation, Media
International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN)
ifcncodeofprinciples.poynter.org

International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN)

The International Fact-Checking Network is a unit of the Poynter Institute dedicated to bringing together fact-checkers worldwide.

Poynter Institute for Media Studies, 3rd Street South, St. Petersburg, FL
since 2015
Emerging Tech Report Projects, Factchecking, Fight disinformation
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