Projects - Factchecking

Tattle

India (Bhārat) 🇮🇳

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 social media in India.

South Asia Check

Kathmandu

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.

Snopes

United States of America 🇺🇸

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 analysis.

Rappler Fact Check

Rappler values truth-telling, facts, and factual reporting.

Raskrinkavanje

Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosna i Hercegovina / Босна и Херцеговина) 🇧🇦

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 statements of public officials, and monitoring the fulfillment of election promises on the Istinomjer platform.

polygraph.info

Polygraph.info is a fact-checking website produced by Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

Newschecker

India (Bhārat) 🇮🇳

At Newschecker, it is our aim to limit and crackdown the spread of fake news in society.

Nepal Fact Check

Nepal 🇳🇵

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 Council and is based in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal.

Myth Detector

Georgia (Sakartvelo) 🇬🇪

Fact-checking and media literacy

Namibia Fact Check

Namibia 🇳🇦

Namibia Fact Check is an impartial initiative that aims to verify public statements and media reports.

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 empathy-driven way.

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Latam Chequea

Latin America

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 communities.

Lead Stories

Lead Stories is an innovative fact checking and debunking website at the intersection of big data and journalism that launched in 2015.

Mafindo

Indonesia 🇮🇩

Served as a center for clarification of issues suspected to be hoaxes.

Social Media Hoax Slayer

Mumbai

In the last few years, the Social Media having a wider reach and faster, started polluting human minds by anti-social elements, wrong doers, pranksters etc.

GhanaFact

Ghana 🇬🇭

Ghana’s first full-time fact-checking organisation signatory to the International Fact-checking Network (IFCN) Code of Principles.

Factly

Hyderabad

Factly strives to cultivate civic participation and engaging citizens in accessing, understanding, and using important government data/information at various levels

Fact Crescendo

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Fact Crescendo is an independent, unbiased fact-checking website that is committed to bringing the fact behind every news, debunking mis-interpreted & hoax news on a daily basis on false, mis-informed, social media as well as mainstream media.

Fact Check Initiative Japan

Japan (Nihon or Nippon) 🇯🇵

FIJ is a non-profit organization for the promotion of Japanese fact-checking aimed at protecting society from mis/disinformation.

Ethiopia Check

Ethiopia (Ityop'iya) 🇪🇹

Ethiopia Check debunks claims and exposes fake news using its platforms on Facebook (52,000 followers), Twitter (7,000 followers) and Telegram (34,000 followers).

El Sabueso

Mexico (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) 🇲🇽

Animal Politico's fact-checking project. "Fooling a dog is difficult."

Dubawa

Nigeria 🇳🇬

DUBAWA is Nigeria’s independent verification and fact-checking platform, initiated by the Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism (PTCIJ) and supported by the most influential newsrooms and civic organisations in the country to help amplify the culture of truth in public discourse, public policy, and media practice.

Ecuador Chequea

Quito

Data enriches public debate and therefore strengthens democracy. An informed society is capable of making conscious decisions.

Efecto Cocuyo Chequea

Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of 🇻🇪

We are an independent Venezuelan media, which uses all its platforms for the free exercise of journalism and access to information.

Dogruluk Payi

Turkey (Turkiye) 🇹🇷

Dogruluk Payi is a Turkish fact checking website

Doble Check

University of Costa Rica

Doble Check is a public discourse auditing project financed by the University of Costa Rica and which operates as a project affiliated with Radio Stations UCR.

DisinfoWatch

Canada 🇨🇦

DisinfoWatch is a Canadian foreign disinformation monitoring and debunking platform.

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.

MediaBiasFactCheck

Media Bias/Fact Check (MBFC), founded in 2015, is an independent online media outlet.

Chequea Bolivia

Bolivia (Buliwya / Wuliwya / Volívia) 🇧🇴

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

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 online yang tergabung di AJI ( Aliansi Jurnalis Independen ) dan AMSI ( Asosiasi Media Siber Indonesia ) serta didukung oleh Google News Initiative dan Internews serta FirstDraft

Centre for Democracy & Development Fact Check program

Bolivia Verifica

Bolivia (Buliwya / Wuliwya / Volívia) 🇧🇴

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 participation.

BOOM

Mumbai

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 fact check it.

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 adopted a formula with seven steps to carry out our checks.

Annir Initiative

Libya (Libiyah) 🇱🇾

Annir is a non-partisan digital initiative specialized in raising awareness about Media & Information Literacy and Digital Safety.

Factually

Poynter's Factually helps fact-checkers, educators, journalists and citizens get at the truth

Fact Checks for Internet Archive Wayback Machine Pages

San Francisco

The Internet Archive has started to surface some of these annotations for Wayback Machine users.

MediaReview

Duke University, Durham, NC

A sibling to ClaimReview that allows fact-checkers to identify whether a video or image has been manipulated.

CORRECTIV.Faktencheck

Huyssenallee 11 45128 Essen

Fakten für die Demokratie

(Mis)informed

St. Petersburg, Florida

The International Fact-Checking Network is releasing a limited-run podcast about fact-checking and fake news.

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The Reporters’ Lab

Duke University, Durham, NC

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 trust in the news media and other topics.

Alt News

Ahmedabad

committed to fact-checking in a fair, transparent and non-partisan manner.

211CHECK

Juba

211CHECK is a fact-checking and information verification platform that works on countering misinformation and disinformation in South Sudan.

Chequeado

Argentina 🇦🇷

Chequeado is a non-profit, non-partisan independent media organisation and Latin America's first fact-checking site.

Correctiv

Essen

Correctiv is a German non-profit newsroom that investigates injustices and abuses of power, and runs educational programs on journalism and media literacy.