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What’s Crap on WhatsApp?
South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika) 🇿🇦Podcast dedicated to unpacking the disinfo spreading on Whatsapp
Vishvas News
New DelhiVishvas 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.
Social Media Analysis Toolkit (SMAT)
Mozilla, East Evelyn Avenue, Mountain View, CAThe 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, 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 journalism.
The Vaccine Safety Project
San FranciscoStrengthening information on vaccine safety on Wikipedia
Civil Network OPORA
01021 KyivOne 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 efficiency, local self-government, as well as the comprehensive implementation of the principle of open data.
Coalizão para Checagem, Eleições 2020
Brazil (Brasil) 🇧🇷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 (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika) 🇿🇦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 candidate” with additional obligations under the code for how those parties and candidates must take appropriate recourse against any member, representative or supporter of that party or candidate who behaves in violation of the code.
Civic Signal
AfricaCivicSignal 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. It uses MIT's Media Cloud software.
ZimFact
Zimbabwe 🇿🇼ZimFact is an independent, non-partisan Zimbabwean online fact-checking platform.
VoxCheck
Ukraine (Ukrayina) 🇺🇦Provides fact checking, explainers, and analytical articles, especially on issues of economic reform in Ukraine.
Verify-Sy
Syria (Syrian Arab Republic, Suriyah) 🇸🇾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 obtain accurate and correct information, and contributing as much as possible to improving the performance of the Syrian media and upgrading it by displaying the imbalances that affect it.
This tool offers an adaptable method to measure the gendered aspects and understand the drivers of this violence.
Tirto.id
Indonesia 🇮🇩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 data. - both secondary and primary, and can be accounted for.
TrolleyBust
Ukraine (Ukrayina) 🇺🇦TrolleyBust is a service for tracking and blocking Internet trolls and other sources of anti-Ukrainian propaganda.
TrollBusters is an at-the-ready network of supporters to respond to women journalists’ reports of online harassment by providing positive counterspeech.
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 Dashboard for the German 2021 Federal Election
Germany (Deutschland) 🇩🇪A live dashboard analyzing the top German candidate's presence on multiple social media platforms.
The Social Media Tracking Centre
Ghana 🇬🇭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 therefore developed what it calls the Social Media Tracking Centre (SMTC).
CongoCheck
Democratic Republic of the Congo (République Démocratique du Congo) 🇨🇩Congo Check est un média spécialisé dans la vérification des faits ou factchecking. Congo Check est un projet de l'ASBL/ONG Initiative des fact-chechekers du Congo, IFC.
Facebook Community Standards
Facebook, Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CAEvery day, people use Facebook to share their experiences, connect with friends and family, and build communities.
Demtech Navigator
University of Oxford, 1 St Giles', Oxford OX1 3JS, UKThis is an online resource guide for civil society groups looking to better deal with the problem of disinformation. Let us know your concerns and we will suggest resources, curated by civil society practitioners and the Programme on Democracy and Technology.
Comprova
Brazil (Brasil) 🇧🇷Comprova brings together journalists from 28 different Brazilian media companies to identify and explain rumors, fabricated content and manipulation tactics that might influence the 2018 presidential election campaign.
Claim Buster
Arlington, Texas"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." - Countering Disinfo
Coalizão Direitos na Rede
Brazil (Brasil) 🇧🇷The Rights in the Network Coalition is a network of entities that brings together more than 40 academic and civil society organizations in defense of digital rights, with the main themes of action: access, freedom of expression, protection of personal data and privacy on the Internet.
Cyber News Verification Lab
Hong KongThis project is an experiment in experiential learning through a cyber verification lab at the University of Hong Kong’s Journalism and Media Studies Centre.
Detector de Mentiras
Colombia 🇨🇴La Silla Vacía is an informative and interactive medium for people interested in current Colombian politics.
Detektor Media
Ukraine (Ukrayina) 🇺🇦Media Detector is a non-governmental organization established by Ukrainian journalists in January 2004.
The DeepTrust Alliance is a global coalition of stakeholders advancing the fight against digital disinformation and deepfakes.
Connects academic research on disinformation threats and vulnerability to governments, CSOs, technology firms, political organizations.
Debunk.eu
Lithuania (Lietuva) 🇱🇹DEBUNK (demaskuok in Lithuanian) is a unique Lithuania-born initiative uniting competing media outlets, journalists, volunteers for a single purpose – to make society more resilient to orchestrated disinformation campaigns.
Data Analytics for Social Media Monitoring
Washington, DCThis new guide is designed to help democracy practitioners better understand social media trends, content, data, and networks.
Digital Ethical Pact
Panama 🇵🇦Panama's Digital Ethical Pact is an agreement where signatories pledge to follow the following: 1. Collaborate with the Electoral Tribunal so that the electoral ban is respected and electoral campaign is only carried out during the permitted periods of 45 days before the internal elections of the political parties and 60 days before the general elections.
Eltették
Hungary (Magyarország) 🇭🇺An interactive map to show the billions worth of properties that went from state-owned to privately owned in recent years, together with K Monitor
The Digital Enquirer Kit is centered around misinformation, fact-based research and digital security.
Digital Democracy Charter
36-38 Hatton Garden, London EC1N 8EB, UK"The Digital Democracy Charter outlines several guiding principles on countering online disinformation and strengthening our democracies given the new digital age." - Counteringdisinformation.org
The Digital Democracy Monitor Toolkit seeks to empower researchers with the knowledge, tools and examples to analyse democratic discourse online.
Digit Eye
India (Bhārat) 🇮🇳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 on as news, social media messages and views.
A report analyzing online spaces being weaponized to exclude women leaders and undermine the role of women in public life. It investigates gendered disinformation on Poland and the Philippines through Twitter data analyses.
Desconfío
Argentina 🇦🇷Desconfío is an initiative launched by the Data Concepción team. It builds tools, produces research, and leads trainings.
Our mission is to ensure that information technology and social media play a proactive role in supporting democracy and human rights globally.
Countering Information Influence Activities: A handbook for communicators
Sweden (Sverige) 🇸🇪The purpose of this handbook is to increase public communicators' awareness and understanding of information influence campaigns and develop their ability to respond.
Countering Misinformation about Armenia
Armenia (Hayastán) 🇦🇲Monitoring of the selected talk shows, newspapers, electronic periodicals of both Russian and Armenian mass media to examine the media coverage, the possible labelling and targeted information conveyed to wide audiences in the result of the activity of Russian and Armenian news and information periodicals, TV talk shows and websites.
In 12 episodes, Jay Smooth teaches you Media Literacy! Based on an introductory college level curriculum, this series takes you through the history and psychology of media and gives you the skills to become more media savvy.
Credibility Coalition
San FranciscoThe Credibility Coalition brings people together to develop common standards for information credibility.
The Content Blockchain Project was initiated in 2016 by a consortium of publishing, law and IT companies to research the possibilities of using blockchain technologies to advance the content and media ecosystem.
NCRI has built its own proprietary platform that has played a critical role in the identification and forecasting of emerging threats that threaten the Economic, physical and social health of civil society.
MOE Election Observation
Colombia 🇨🇴The Election Observation Mission (La Misión de Observación Electoral, MOE) is an election observer group based in Colombia.
DisinfoWatch
Canada 🇨🇦DisinfoWatch is a Canadian foreign disinformation monitoring and debunking platform.
A user guide for civil society organizations and researchers to assess the vulnerability of a country’s electoral integrity to online manipulation.
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