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.
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...
Real 411
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.
Protecting Tunisian Elections from Digital Threat Roundtable
The roundtable highlights the current state of social media used by political actors ahead of the elections, seeking to understand and foresight how social media will impact the political campaign, an...
Reading together
Reliability and Multilingual Global Communities
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 dec...
Project Certeza
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, t...
Project Look Sharp Media Curriculum
Project Look Sharp is a nonprofit, mission-driven outreach program of Ithaca College.
Projeto Credibilidade
The Trust Project develops transparency standards that help people assess the quality and credibility of journalism.
PubliElectoral
PubliElectoral is a technological tool of social interest that allows the collection of information related to electoral advertising on social networks without affecting the privacy of citizen users.
Pressland
Pressland is a first-of-its-kind data-intelligence platform that maps global media production in real time.
PolitiTruth
PolitiTruth is a non-profit game of distinguishing political fact from fiction.
polygraph.info
Polygraph.info is a fact-checking website produced by Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
Polétika República Dominicana
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, ch...
PEN America’s Online Harassment Field Manual
A training guide for journalists and writers on how to respond to online harassment and abuse, including building a community of supporters and developing counterspeech messages.
Pegabot
a tool that brings more transparency to the use of bots in Brazil.
Observatorio Venezolano de Fake News
The Venezuelan Fake News Observatory aims to educate and empower citizens in the face of a reality that is submerged daily in the misinformation produced, among other reasons, by the almost immediate...
Permanent International Media Monitoring Mission on Disinformation about Ukraine and the Ukrainian diaspora
NGO "Ukraine-2050" is a working to counter disinformation through a media monitoring program.
OwlFactor
OwlFactor automatically calculates the quality of an article based on four factors
Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace
The Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace of 12 November 2018 is a call to come together to face the new threats endangering citizens and infrastructure.
Newschecker
At Newschecker, it is our aim to limit and crackdown the spread of fake news in society.
Open & Disclose
Open & Disclose aims to provide a platform for media organisations, journalists, columnists, and commentators to make public their interests, with the aim of strengthening institutional credibility, a...
NoBias
In the age of social media, many of us ambiently consume news by reading headlines and descriptions that appear in our news feeds.
NewsTracker
"A grant from the Knight Foundation to PBS News Hour, the Newstracker project has tasked itself with "developing a tool that combines online news content with engagement data from social media and oth...
NewseumED
NewseumED.org offers free resources to cultivate the First Amendment and media literacy skills essential to civic life.
Newsguard
"Sponsored partly by Microsoft, Newsguard is a plugin for browsers such as Chrome, Mozilla, and Microsoft's Edge that validates news websites for users based on 9 journalistic integrity criteria." - C...
Newscheck
Strengthening our resolve to support the fight against misinformation in India, Internews is delighted to announce that in partnership with DataLEADS and with the support of Google.org, we will be lau...
News Literacy Project
"The News Literacy Project is a national education nonprofit offering nonpartisan, independent programs that teach students how to know what to believe in the digital age." - Counteringdisinformation....
News On Wiki NOW
Helping the Public Navigate a Challenging Media Landscape
Netvizz
Netvizz is a data collection and extraction application that allows researchers to export data in standard file formats from different sections of the Facebook social networking service.
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...
News Integrity Initiative
The News Integrity Initative is a global consortium focused on helping people make informed judgments about the news they read and share online.
Nepal Election Commission Code of Conduct
Nepal’s Election Commission published their electoral code of conduct in 2015, which established standards and regulations for various institutions, persons, bodies and authorities.
Mozilla Web Literacy Framework
In today’s digital world, knowing how to read, write, and participate online is a foundational skill next to reading, writing, and arithmetic.
Myth Detector
Fact-checking and media literacy
Namibia Fact Check
Namibia Fact Check is an impartial initiative that aims to verify public statements and media reports.
NATO Stratcom Communications Centre of Excellence
NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence
Name It. Change It. Research and Reports
Name It. Change It releases research projects and studies demonstrating gender-based challenges women face from the media when they run for office.
A Field Guide to “Fake News” and Other Information Disorders
A Field Guide to “Fake News” and Other Information Disorders explores the use of digital methods to study false viral news, political memes, trolling practices and their social life online.
Media LIT
EDx course on media literacy. It helps us understand, analyze and create media.
Media Matters for Pakistan
Media Matters for Pakistan is a web based initiative, designed to act as an informal watchdog over the mainstream media in Pakistan.
Manila Principles on Intermediary Liability
The Manilla Principles on Intermediary Liability define various principles for intermediary companies to follow when operating in democratic and authoritarian environments
Linterna Verde
Linterna Verde do Research on the online public debate based on areas of interest. They seek to make our work accessible, useful and actionable for civil society, the media and government.
Liga Contra el Silencio
We define ourselves as an alliance that involves the media, a central newsroom and a network of freelance collaborators.
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...
Malign Creativity: How Gender, Sex, and Lies Are Weaponized Against Women Online
Report striving to build awareness of the direct and indirect impacts of gendered and sexualized disinformation on women in public life, as well as its corresponding impacts on national security and d...
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...
Lead Stories
Lead Stories is an innovative fact checking and debunking website at the intersection of big data and journalism that launched in 2015.
Making Sense of the News course
Never before has the need for News Literacy been more urgent.
KnowNews
Easily see if a news site offers credible news or should not be trusted and is un-credible/dodgy.
Sentinel Project early warning system for Kenya Election 2022
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.