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)
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.
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...
Centre for Democracy & Development Fact Check program
Captain Fact
CaptainFact is a collaborative fact-checking tool for YouTube videos.
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
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...
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...
Botcheck
This project uses advanced machine learning techniques to detect propaganda accounts on Twitter.
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.
BotSlayer
BotSlayer is an application that helps track and detect potential manipulation of information spreading on Twitter.
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...
Beacon Project
Supports original research into disinformation vulnerability and resilience with public opinion research, analytical pieces, narrative monitoring, and mainstream and social media monitoring, both in h...
Be Internet Awesome
Google's digital media literacy training for kids
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...
Alternative News Networks
This project seeks to understand the health of the UK online information ecosystem, including tracking the spread of divisive and misleading content.
Assessment of Online Risks for the 2021 German Federal Elections
A report analyzing the online environment and potential risks for the 2021 German Federal Elections.
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.
Aggie
Aggie is an open-source social and online media aggregation tool designed specifically for monitoring events in real time.
Annir Initiative
Annir is a non-partisan digital initiative specialized in raising awareness about Media & Information Literacy and Digital Safety.
Al Sur
"Al Sur" is a consortium of organizations that work in civil society and academia in Latin America and that seek with their joint work to strengthen human rights in the digital environment of the regi...
ANCIR Investigative Lab (iLab)
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 spe...
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...
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.
AFRICMIL
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...
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
The Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA)
An open technical standard providing publishers, creators, and consumers the ability to trace the origin of different types of media.
MisinfoDay
MisinfoDay is an annual event co-hosted by the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public (CIP) and Washington State University’s Edward R. Murrow College of Communication.
Fact Checks for Internet Archive Wayback Machine Pages
The Internet Archive has started to surface some of these annotations for Wayback Machine users.
The Good Information Project
"The aim of The Good Information Project is to claim back and own the inform in information."
Take on Fake
Take on Fake debunks claims you’ve seen or shared online to show you how to stay informed. Host Hari Sreenivasan follows the Internet rabbit hole of misinformation, reading beyond a single headline to...
The Deepfake Lab
Discover how deepfakes work and the visual clues you can use to identify them. We are a group of communication designers that have created this project to demonstrate our research into making our own...
Harmony Square
a free online game funded by the State Dept. that helps fight #disinformation, now playable in 6 different languages
Tech, Media & Democracy course
Through a unique pan-university course, NYC universities partner to explore challenges and opportunities & build prototypes at the intersection of technology, media and democracy
MediaReview
A sibling to ClaimReview that allows fact-checkers to identify whether a video or image has been manipulated.
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.
ClaimReview Project
A tagging system for fact-checks
China Index 2021
Measuring PRC Influence Around the Globe.
Public Editor
We’re an online community of critical thinkers vetting the most-shared news articles on the Internet.
CORRECTIV.Faktencheck
Fakten für die Demokratie
X Community Notes
X's community-based approach to misinformation
Centre for Information Resilience
CIR is a non-profit social enterprise dedicated to countering disinformation & exposing human rights abuses.
(Mis)informed
The International Fact-Checking Network is releasing a limited-run podcast about fact-checking and fake news.
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...
Alt News
committed to fact-checking in a fair, transparent and non-partisan manner.
Disinfo Defense League
The Disinfo Defense League (DDL) is a distributed national network of organizers, researchers and disinformation experts disrupting online racialized disinformation infrastructure and campaigns that d...
RT and Sputnik's Role in Russia's Disinformation and Propaganda Ecosystem
US State Department report on state-funded misinformation
Doublethink Labs
Doublethink Lab was founded in 2019 to strengthen democracy through enhancing digital defenses. Our work focuses on researching malign Chinese influence operations and disinformation campaigns and the...
Journal of Online Trust and Safety
The Journal of Online Trust and Safety is a cross-disciplinary, open access, fast peer-review journal that publishes research on how consumer internet services are abused to cause harm and how to prev...
211CHECK
211CHECK is a fact-checking and information verification platform that works on countering misinformation and disinformation in South Sudan.
Doublethink Lab's Disinfo Walkthrough
A collection of easy to use resources for identifying misinformation and its psychological tricks