Fight disinformation
Disinformation campaigns by states, economic opportunists, and the misinformed themselves threaten to erode the common understandings, shared identities, and empirical bedrock that underlies our collective decisionmaking. While disinformation campaigns have used mass media to spread for many years, social media platforms have proven an exceptionally hospitable environment for the proliferation of falsehoods. Those looking to limit disinformation’s effect on society and bolster truth in media have likewise turned to technology to help keep up with the volume and precision of constantly evolving disinformation campaigns.
Suggested reading:
- Matt Stempeck's research into how the Code for All network has advanced its strategies for fighting disinformation in different contexts around the world (2022)
- Digital Disinformation and Vote Suppression, The Brennan Center for Justice (2020)
- Virus Experts Aren’t Getting the Message Out Renée DiResta in The Atlantic (2020)
- Safeguarding Democracy Against Disinformation Report by the German Marshall Fund of the United States (2020)
- Browser Plug-ins That Spot Fake News Show The Difficulty Of Tackling The ‘Information Apocalypse’ Can software that spots Photoshopped images help stem the tide of misinformation? The Verge (2018)
- Can an AI Fact-Checker Solve India’s Fake News Problem? An Indian startup is using an AI tool to curb misinformation. But India poses unique challenges for the technology. Undark (2019)
- Factchecking, a Quartz Daily Obsession media collage (2019)
- Fake news and fact-checking: 7 studies you should know about, a roundup from Journalist’s Resource (2020)
- The children’s storyteller helping Taiwan sort fact from fiction, a helpful deep dive into disinfo-fighting tech (and misappropriation through national ‘fake news laws’) in Asia. Al Jazeera (2020).
- CivicSpace.tech guide to Disinformation, including its relevance to civic space, opportunities, risks, and case studies (2020)
Trusted Messenger Program
PGP’s health care professional networks, health care professional training program, and its significant health communications infrastructure form one program: the Trusted Messenger Program.
“I always want to do good with my platform:” Evaluating Influencer Experiences Participating in PGP’s Influencer Programs
A survey composed of 21 questions designed to collect qualitative and quantitative data on influencers' experiences working with PGP and their respective influencer-led programs.
Lessons Learned From Monitoring Spanish-Language Vaccine Misinformation During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Erika Bonnevie, Valeria Ricciulli, Megan Fields, Ruth O’Neill, 2023
PGP Monitoring Lab
PGP’s Monitoring Lab employs several commercially available media monitoring systems that collect and organize publicly available information sources.
YouTube: ‘Captured with a camera’ disclosure
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FEMA Hurricane Rumor Response
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Rhetorical Labs
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Conspiracy Debunking Conversations
An open database of conversations ChatGPT had with people who believe in a variety of conspiracy theories, which can be filtered by the efficacy of the conversation in changing beliefs.
La Cumbre Global Sobre Desinformación
Skeptic Reader
Your personal bullshit🤌 detector for the Internet.
Gali Fakta
A new kind of media literacy game specifically tailored for an Indonesian audience.
Democracy Forward
Microsoft's program to "preserve, protect, and advance the fundamentals of democracy by safeguarding open and secure democratic processes, promoting a healthy information ecosystem, and advocating for...
Weibo Community Notes feature (社区“附注”功能上)
Like X and YouTube, China's Weibo platform instituted community notes annotations to fight disinformation on the platform.
有据 (China Fact Check)
China's first independent fact-checker, verifying international news
Democratic Shield
The Shield initiative united a set of actions for institutions and civil society, aimed at safeguarding the integrity of the elections.
GlobalFact
Misinformation Combat Alliance
The Misinformation Combat Alliance is a cross-industry alliance bringing companies, organizations, institutions, industry associations and government entities together to combat misinformation and fak...
Digital Community Stewards Online Course
A training program for digital community stewards (online group moderators and admins) focused on building social cohesion in online communities, and creating inclusive, engaging, and safe digital exp...
The Project AISLE
Project AISLE is a hate speech monitoring tool in Tamil and Sinhala developed using Artificial Intelligence.
Hashtag Generation
Hashtag Generation is a non profit organization and movement led and run by a group of young tech-savvy, socially conscious Sri Lankans advocating for the meaningful civic and political participation...
BridgeBot
Meet BridgeBot, a new chatbot which helps social media users bridge differences and build trust and understanding online.
Get the Trolls Out
A campaign that harnesses the power of social media to disseminate innovative media outputs and generate dialogue in order to deliver a powerful counter-narrative against diverse forms of hate speech,...
The Impact and Opportunities of Generative AI in Fact-Checking
Paper by ROBERT WOLFE and TANUSHREE MITRA, University of Washington, United States
Democracy Capital
Advising, Educating, Investing and Partnering in solutions that promote ecosystems we can trust…through information integrity, quality, and transparency (IQT)
EU Elections Information Sharing and Analysis Centre
Alliance4Europe is operating an information sharing and analysis centre (ISAC), to identify and defend against disinformation threats and to enable scalable collaboration with those who want to defend...
Mitigating the Risks of Political Microtargeting
Guidance for Policymakers, Civil Society, and Development Cooperation
The Internet & Democracy Initiative
The Internet & Democracy Initiative will study problems that have widespread information and social media implications.
Psychology of Misinformation Lab
European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO)
the EU’s largest interdisciplinary network to counter disinformation.
EDMO Fact-Checking Community
We Need Cooperation Among Fact-Checkers
EU Transparency Centre Reports Archive
Tech company signatories of the voluntary EU Code of Practice on Disinformation report relevant data on disinformation on their platforms
ElectoFacts
ElectoFacts is a resource that Canadian electors can use to easily check whether information they come across about Canada's federal electoral process is true or not.
Turning Wikimedia into a news-site credibility tool
My new WikiCred project is aimed at making Wikidata/Wikipedia a more effective indicator of news-site credibility.
The ComProp Navigator
This is an online resource guide for civil society groups looking to better deal with the problem of disinformation.
Facts and Fakes in video
Fact-checking video for Youtube and Rutube: displaying references to refutations, proofs and disputs of the facts contained in the video, as well as the video rating of the video and the overall chann...
LupaMundi
O LupaMundi - Mapa das Legislações sobre Desinformação é um mapa interativo que apresenta as leis nacionais de combate à desinformação.
Say No to Disinfo
Say No To Disinfo mines peer-reviewed empirical studies for insight on the most effective way to combat any information threat.
Foundation The London Story
Diaspora monitoring disinformation and hate speech in India and advocating for human rights.
Mercenários Digitais
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Encrypted Messaging Applications and Political Messaging: How They Work and Why Understanding Them is Important for Combating Global Disinformation
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Metamorphosis Foundation
Metamorphosis Foundation works on strengthening the awareness and capacity of citizens and civil society to assume their fullest possible role as activists for democracy, while supporting government t...
Cat Park
A game to arm people against disinformation
EUfactcheck.eu
EUfactcheck, an initiative of the European Journalism Training Association (EJTA) fights misinformation about European policies and topics. Journalism students from all over Europe factcheck claims ma...
NETTZ
Hate speech on the internet has regrettably become an increasingly pressing social issue. The NETTZ network aims to confront the current trend by supporting moral courage on digital media as well as c...
European Media and Information Fund
The EMIF is entrusted with an objective of public interest to support fact-checking and media literacy initiatives, as well as fundamental research projects, with a view to addressing the phenomenon o...
ERSILIA
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Propastop
Propastop is a blog aimed at cleaning Estonia from propaganda, false information and media lie. The blog is run by volunteers.
Google Factcheck Explorer
A standalone product for users to query the veracity of text- and image-based claims
GlobalFact 10 Awards
We are excited to invite you to cast your vote for this year's awards, where we celebrate exceptional work in fact-checking.