Projects - Factchecking

Claude skills for journalism

Montclair, NJ

A curated collection of Claude Code skills for journalists, researchers, academics, and media professionals.

POLIHIVE

Nigeria 🇳🇬

POLIHIVE helps Gen Z Nigerians verify information, detect misinformation, and make informed civic decisions — all through play.

Russia-Ukraine ConflictMisinfo

Toronto

The portal is a resource for analysts, researchers, and members of the public who are interested in understanding the nature and scale of online misinformation and disinformation about the Russia-Ukraine war.

Deepfakes Tracker

Toronto

The portal is designed to serve as a comprehensive resource for policymakers, researchers, journalists, the public, and other stakeholders to monitor the prevalence of deepfakes and understand their potential threats to society.

NoteTracker Dashboard

Toronto

A Searchable Database of X's Community Notes

Grok for Mayor Truth Department

London

The AI-powered truth aggregator.

Ojo Biónico

Lima, Peru

Chequeos

MediaFact Latam

Latin America

La aceleradora de fact-checking para medios

Chatbot de Mala Espina

Chile 🇨🇱

El Chatbot de Mala Espina es una herramienta de inteligencia artificial diseñada para enseñar a verificar noticias y datos y ayudar a combatir la desinformación.

Mala Espina

Chile 🇨🇱

Únete a la lucha contra la desinformación

Global Fact-Check Bot

Poynter Institute for Media Studies, 3rd Street South, St. Petersburg, FL

A pioneering AI platform that empowers fact-checkers and citizens worldwide to verify information accuracy with just a few clicks. Fighting misinformation across 50+ languages, powered by 60+ trusted organizations.

TikTok’s Global Fact-checking Program

Through our Global Fact-Checking Program, we work with more than 20 IFCN-accredited fact-checking organizations who assess the accuracy of content on TikTok in over 60 languages and 130 markets across the world.

TikTok

FactBot by Snopes

United States of America 🇺🇸

Snopes is using an AI model combined with Snopes Archives to answer questions

Arab Fact-Checkers Network

Amman, Jordan

The Arab Fact-Checkers Network (AFCN) is a grassroots network that works towards fostering transparent and impartial fact-checking in the Arab region.

Japan Fact-check Center

Tokyo

Japan Fact-check Center (JFC) is a non-profit organization dedicated to fact-checking and promoting media information literacy

Centre for Democracy & Development (CDD-West Africa)

Lagos

TICTeC 25

Spinoza

The Spinoza project initially aims to create a tool for journalists based on generative artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance media coverage of climate change and ecological transition, all while relying on reliable sources.

ARIJ AI Playbook

Amman, Jordan

ARIJ has developed its AI strategy to serve as a reference and comprehensive map for small and medium-sized Arab press organizations to employ modern technologies and tools to improve journalistic production

Quality education

OSP

Armenia (Hayastán) 🇦🇲

A fact-checking website designed to provide critical support to investigative journalists, fact-checkers, and data journalism experts by simplifying access to information from Armenian open sources.

Dokopalsya!

Russian Federation 🇷🇺

Dokopalsya! (which playfully means "got to the bottom of it" in Russian), leverages large language models to serve as a rapid fact-checking assistant in Russian. When users share claims or news snippets, the bot identifies key assertions and checks them against reliable sources, providing evidence-based verification with links to authoritative references.

Telegram

有据 (China Fact Check)

China (Zhong Guo) 🇨🇳

China's first independent fact-checker, verifying international news

GlobalFact

Spread the Facts Grant Program

Poynter Institute for Media Studies, 3rd Street South, St. Petersburg, FL

To support fact-checking on WhatsApp, the International Fact-Checking Network is offering a new round of its Spread the Facts grant program in partnership with Meta to combat AI-generated misinformation.

The Impact and Opportunities of Generative AI in Fact-Checking

Washington state

Paper by ROBERT WOLFE and TANUSHREE MITRA, University of Washington, United States

EDMO Fact-Checking Community

Florence

We Need Cooperation Among Fact-Checkers

European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO)

Florence

the EU’s largest interdisciplinary network to counter disinformation.

Facts and Fakes in video

Russian Federation 🇷🇺

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 channel rating.

YouTube

EUfactcheck.eu

Mechelen

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 made by politicians and others and rate them.

students

Google Factcheck Explorer

Mountain View, CA

A standalone product for users to query the veracity of text- and image-based claims

civic features

Hibrid.info

Prishtina, Kosovo

Kosovo factchecking project out of ADS nonprofit

Global Fact Check Fund

Poynter Institute for Media Studies, 3rd Street South, St. Petersburg, FL

The Global Fact Check Fund will award grants in an open competition for one or a series of programs to support third-party organizations in strengthening the capabilities of fact-checking organizations across the world.

Groundviews

Colombo, Sri Lanka

Groundviews is a citizens journalism website based in Sri Lanka which uses a range of genres and media to highlight alternative perspectives on governance, human rights, the arts and literature, peace-building and other issues.

PolétikaRD Chequeos

C. Josefa Perdomo 160 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Fact-checking in the Dominican Republic

Kosh

India (Bhārat) 🇮🇳

Archive containing content scraped from all the different sources- the Tattle Jod telegram bot, Fact-checking sites, social media and chat apps.

Chequeo Colectivo

Argentina 🇦🇷

Es una plataforma abierta para verificar contenidos a pedido de la comunidad.

WhatsApp Third Party Fact-Checkers

San Francisco

End-to-end fact-checking on the WhatsApp Business API organized by Meedan

WhatsApp

Ellinika Hoaxes

Greece (Ellas, Ellada) 🇬🇷

Τα «ellinikahoaxes.gr» είναι ο μοναδικός ελληνικός ιστότοπος κατά της παραπληροφόρησης και η μοναδική συντονισμένη προσπάθεια κατάρριψης αναληθών δημοσιευμάτων στο ελληνικό διαδίκτυο. Εργαλεία μας, η έρευνα, η συλλογή στοιχείων και πληροφοριών από αξιόπιστες πηγές και σωστή αξιολόγηση τους.

Mchaguzi

Kenya 🇰🇪

Mchaguzi is an independent web-based, voter-centred electoral intelligence toolkit designed and implemented by The Demography Project, to enhance citizen participation and engagement before, during and after the 2022 Kenyan General Election.

Cazadores de Fake News

Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of 🇻🇪

Somos una comunidad crowdsourcing que monitorea la desinformación difundidas en cadenas de WhatsApp y redes sociales entre venezolanos. Nuestro centro de operaciones es un grupo de Telegram abierto en el que analizamos colectivamente la información que recibimos.

Watchdog

Batticaloa, Sri Lanka

Watchdog is a multidisciplinary team of factcheckers, journalists, researchers and software engineers. We hunt hoaxes and misinformation, investigate matters of public welfare, and build software tools that help operations like ours.