Media
Journalism, storytelling, and other forms of interactive media are critical to civic engagement in democracies. Here we track those media and journalism tech projects that directly relate to citizens working to shift power in society.
Claim Buster
"Claim Buster allows for fact checking of individual personal claims or claims by public officials. Users can insert their own claims or links to claims said publically to find out their factuality."...
Civil Network OPORA
One of the leading non-governmental and non-partisan All-Ukrainian organizations for public oversight and advocacy in the field of elections, parliamentarism, education, joint ownership, energy effici...
Civic Signal
CivicSignal is Code for Africa's AI/machine learning initiative, using large-scale media monitoring to map the content/creator landscape and underlying business models for disinformation profiteers. I...
Coalizão para Checagem, Eleições 2020
TSE coordinated a fact-checking coalition, comprising nine renowned fact-checking organizations from the media, named “Coalizão para Checagem – Eleições 2020” (Fact-Checking Coalition – 2020 Elections...
Code of Conduct: Measures to Address Disinformation Intended to Cause Harm During the Election Period
South Africa’s “Code of Conduct: Measures to Address Disinformation Intended to Cause Harm During the Election Period” (in draft form as of July 2020) is aimed at “every registered party and every can...
ZimFact
ZimFact is an independent, non-partisan Zimbabwean online fact-checking platform.
Voluntary Code of Ethics - India 2019 Election
Prior to 2019 elections, the Election Commission of India was able to convene representatives from top social media companies for a two-day brainstorming session on approaches to problematic social me...
What’s Crap on WhatsApp?
Podcast dedicated to unpacking the disinfo spreading on Whatsapp
Vishvas News
Vishvas News is an information fact-check and verification portal that is committed to debunking fake news and misinformation in Hindi, English and 10 different Indic languages.
VoxCheck
Provides fact checking, explainers, and analytical articles, especially on issues of economic reform in Ukraine.
Verify-Sy
Verify-Sy platform is a media platform specialized in examining news and images and verifying information, and Verify-Sy platform seeks to achieve two noble goals: ensuring the citizen's right to obta...
VERA Files Fact Check
VERA Files is a nonstock, nonprofit independent media organization.
Troll Factory
Troll Factory was developed by a team of experts at Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company.
UNESCO's online media & information literacy (MIL) course
Faced with the choice between privacy and safety on the Internet, between freely expressing themselves and the ethical use of information, the media and technology – women, men and young boys and girl...
Tirto.id
Tirto.id translates the enlightening vision as the necessity of presenting clear, enlightening, insightful, contextual, deep, investigative, factual, supported by a lot of quantitative and qualitative...
TrolleyBust
TrolleyBust is a service for tracking and blocking Internet trolls and other sources of anti-Ukrainian propaganda.
TrollBusters
TrollBusters is an at-the-ready network of supporters to respond to women journalists’ reports of online harassment by providing positive counterspeech.
Thwarting Disinformation and Promoting Quality Information in Haitian Media
Internews’ Thwarting Disinformation and Promoting Quality Information in Haitian Media project will limit the impact of inflammatory rhetoric, false news and disinformation.
The Social Media Tracking Centre
The monitoring of mainstream media (TV, radio, newspapers) has become the general norm in Africa. However, social media trends are harder to track and must be taken into account too. Penplusbytes ther...
Social Media Analysis Toolkit (SMAT)
The conversations that trend on internet platforms shape our world in consequential ways, from who we vote for, to what news we read, to how we respond to a pandemic.
The Trust Project
The Trust Project, a consortium of top news companies led by award-winning journalist Sally Lehrman, is developing transparency standards that help you easily assess the quality and credibility of jou...
The Vaccine Safety Project
Strengthening information on vaccine safety on Wikipedia
The Santa Clara Principles On Transparency and Accountability in Content Moderation
The Santa Clara Principles On Transparency and Accountability in Content Moderation cover various aspects of content moderation, developed by legal scholars and technologists based mostly in the Unite...
The Pledge for Election Integrity
"Pledge signed by political parties/individuals committing to transparency and preserving election integrity by avoiding disinformation and attacks by third parties." - Counteringdisinformation.org
The Media Manipulation Casebook
Case studies. The Media Manipulation Casebook is a digital research platform linking together theory, methods, and practice for mapping media manipulation and disinformation campaigns.
The Computational Propaganda Project
Since 2012, the Programme on Democracy & Technology has been investigating the use of algorithms, automation, and computational propaganda in public life.
teyit.org
teyit.org is working to ensure that internet users can access correct information by verifying in many areas from widely known mistakes, suspicious information on the agenda of social media, claims br...
The (mis)informed citizen
Research project at the Alan Turing Institute
The Citizen Browser Project
The Markup, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates how the world’s most powerful institutions use technology to reshape society, today announced the development of The Citizen Browser Project—an initi...
Tattle
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 soc...
Tactical Tech’s Gendersec Training Curricula on “Hacking Hate Speech”
A training workshop curriculum on how to set up an online support network, create textual and visual counterspeech content, and deploy a counterspeech campaign.
Taiwan FactCheck Center
Taiwan’s first fact-checking center was jointly supported by the Taiwan Media Observation Education Foundation and the Quality Journalism Development Association.
Suara Masyarakat
Suara Masyarakat (Community Voices) is an Internews Europe project with local Malaysian partners on a 36-month project which aims to strengthen capacity of Malaysian media as the key actor in promotin...
Sure and Share Center
Thai News Agency’s ‘Sure andShare’ project, which encourages audience members to submit questions they have about content, rumours or stories circulating on the messaging app LINE.
StopFake
The nongovernmental organization Media Reforms Center is an educational platform, founded by Mohyla School of Journalism at National University of ‘KyivMohyla Academy’, which aims to implement high...
Social Media Monitoring During the 2020-2021 Elections in Georgia
The overall goal of the project is to safeguard the information integrity around the 2020 Parliamentary and 2021 Municipal elections in Georgia from disinformation, discrediting campaigns and other ho...
Social Science One
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 chall...
Putting Civic Online Reason In Civics Class
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
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.
Siberkreasi
SiBerkreasi is a national movement to overcome the biggest potential threats that are being faced by Indonesia, namely the spread of negative content through the internet such as hoaxes, cyberbullying...
Snopes
When misinformation obscures the truth and readers don’t know what to trust, Snopes.com’s fact checking and original, investigative reporting lights the way to evidence-based and contextualized analys...
Sobrevivendo nas Redes (Surviving on the networks)
The "Surviving the Networks" project aims to strengthen civic culture in Brazil by offering information and strategies on how to better inform oneself in social networks.
Institute for Development of Freedom of Information MEMORY AND DISINFORMATION STUDIES
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
UK government toolkit to help support the dissemination of reliable, truthful information that underpins our democracy.
RefB
A Bot to Add References to WikiData Statements
Regional Elections Administration and Political Processes Strengthening Program (REAPPS) I and II in Europe
Goal is to promote cross-border learning and networking on a wide range of existing initiatives and to develop new capacity in political participation, government transparency and election administrat...
Rooted in Trust
Rooted in Trust is a pandemic information response plan countering the unprecedented scale and speed of the spread of rumors and misinformation about COVID-19. Operating in ten countries.
Rappler Fact Check
Rappler values truth-telling, facts, and factual reporting.
PUSAD
PUSAD is a center for research on religion and democracy, they conduct research on hate speech and political disinformation.
Radar
Radar is a project which uses a combination of algorithms and manual research to find posts related to three themes over a wide variety of social media platforms in Brazil.