Projects - Fight disinformation

The ComProp Navigator

University of Oxford, 1 St Giles', Oxford OX1 3JS, UK

This is an online resource guide for civil society groups looking to better deal with the problem of disinformation.

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

LupaMundi

Brazil (Brasil) 🇧🇷

O LupaMundi - Mapa das Legislações sobre Desinformação é um mapa interativo que apresenta as leis nacionais de combate à desinformação.

Say No to Disinfo

London

Say No To Disinfo mines peer-reviewed empirical studies for insight on the most effective way to combat any information threat.

Foundation The London Story

India (Bhārat) 🇮🇳

Diaspora monitoring disinformation and hate speech in India and advocating for human rights.

Mercenários Digitais

South America

Brasil: Investigação transnacional revela empresas de marketing político ligadas à extrema direita

reports

Encrypted Messaging Applications and Political Messaging: How They Work and Why Understanding Them is Important for Combating Global Disinformation

The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

This report provides an overview of how various EMAs work, a review of popular EMAs and their notable features (LINE, Signal, Telegram, Viber, WhatsApp, and WeChat), and examples of how EMAs have been used for political manipulation

#teyitpedia

Turkey (Turkiye) 🇹🇷

dijitalde eleştirel düşünme becerileri kazandıran, yanlış bilgi sorununa dikkat çeken, teyitçi gibi düşünmeye katkı sağlayan yazılardan oluşur.

Metamorphosis Foundation

Skopje, North Macedonia

Metamorphosis Foundation works on strengthening the awareness and capacity of citizens and civil society to assume their fullest possible role as activists for democracy, while supporting government to fulfill its democratic role in serving society.

Cat Park

A game to arm people against disinformation

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

NETTZ

Berlin

Hate speech on the internet has regrettably become an increasingly pressing social issue. The NETTZ network aims to confront the current trend by supporting moral courage on digital media as well as cultivating a positive debate and opinion culture on the web.

hate speech

European Media and Information Fund

Lisbon

The EMIF is entrusted with an objective of public interest to support fact-checking and media literacy initiatives, as well as fundamental research projects, with a view to addressing the phenomenon of online disinformation in Europe and promoting a more resilient and fact-based digital information ecosystem.

ERSILIA

Paris

Ersilia Est Une Plateforme Collaborative D’éducation À L’image

Propastop

Estonia (Eesti Vabariik) 🇪🇪

Propastop is a blog aimed at cleaning Estonia from propaganda, false information and media lie. The blog is run by volunteers.

Google Factcheck Explorer

Mountain View, CA

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

civic features

GlobalFact 10 Awards

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

We are excited to invite you to cast your vote for this year's awards, where we celebrate exceptional work in fact-checking.

Imposing Fees to Access the Twitter API Threatens Public-Interest Research

Over 700 organizations and individuals petitioning Twitter not to revoke free research access to its API

X (Twitter)

Hibrid.info

Prishtina, Kosovo

Kosovo factchecking project out of ADS nonprofit

International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE)

Switzerland (Schweiz, Suisse, Svizzera) 🇨🇭

A new, independent global science organization committed to providing actionable scientific knowledge about threats to the world’s information environment

Twitter Brigade

Ljubljana

Astroturfing research. We spent the second half of 2020 analysing 24 fake Twitter profiles that published divisive or hostile content and were regularly mentioned or retweeted by Slovenian right-wing politicians.

Danes je nov dan

Ljubljana

Ljubljana, Slovenia based civic tech NGO, focusing efforts on (digital) political participation, open data, transparency, and public institutional oversight.

Construction of Positive Narratives Training

In this course, you will learn how stories and narratives make disinformation popular and credible and how to counter dangerous beliefs and attitudes.

trainings

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.

Pinterest Climate Disinformation Policy

San Francisco

Our new policy makes Pinterest the only major digital platform to have clearly defined guidelines against false or misleading climate change information, including conspiracy theories, across content and ads.

Audible reckoning: How top political podcasters spread unsubstantiated and false claims

Washington, DC

Brookings report: Using a combination of analytical methods – including natural language processing, machine learning, and manual classifying – this research provided the first overarching assessment of the role that popular political podcasting plays in spreading unsubstantiated and false claims.

reports

Junkipedia

Washington, DC

Junkipedia is designed to centralize the collection of problematic content so that everyone with a stake in solving this problem can benefit from a shared understanding of what threats exist and how to respond to them.

Algorithmic Transparency Institute

Washington, DC

The Algorithmic Transparency Institute builds technology, gathers data, and generates insights to support research, journalism, and advocacy organizations.

Civic Listening Corps

Washington, DC

The CLC is a volunteer network of individuals trained to monitor for, critically evaluate, and report misinformation on diverse topics central to our civic life: voting, elections, public health, civil rights, and other important issues.

Iffy Index of Unreliable Sources

United States of America 🇺🇸

The goal is to give researchers a more complete, current, and accurate dataset of sites that spread mis/disinformation, which will lead to more accurate disinformation research.

Veri.FYI

Prototype - Enter a URL to detect fake news websites at scale.

The Starling Lab Journalism Fellowship

California

The Starling Lab, a research center anchored at Stanford University’s School of Engineering and the University of Southern California’s Shoah Foundation, has developed a ground-breaking framework to combat mis/disinformation by tracking the provenance of digital content through the use of open-source tools, best practices and case studies designed to help reduce information uncertainty.

Misinformation exposure

Misinformation exposure scores measure how much the politicians and public organizations you follow tend to lie (based on fact-checking their claims by PolitiFact).

X (Twitter)

Disinfo Matters

We’re looking beyond fake news to examine how manipulation of narratives, rewriting of history and altering our memories is reshaping our world.

Los Desinformantes

Argentina 🇦🇷

Los desinformantes es una serie de investigaciones sobre diferentes actores que han desinformado durante la pandemia.

An Unrepresentative Democracy: How Disinformation and Online Abuse Hinder Women of Color Political Candidates in the United States

Washington, DC

A report by Center for Democracy & Technology

Misinformation Amplification Analysis and Tracking Dashboard

At the Integrity Institute, we are tracking how misinformation performs on platforms to measure the extent to which platforms are amplifying misinformation, and the extent to which they are creating an incentive structure that rewards lies and misinformation online.

Detect Fakes

Northwestern University, Campus Drive, Evanston, IL

See for yourself how accurately you can identify AI-generated images

Waterbear

Disinformation is threatening our ability to get credible facts. Built on our trusted technology stack, Waterbear helps you fight back.

Analysis and Response Toolkit for Trust

The Analysis and Response Toolkit for Trust or ARTT is focused on helping people engage in trust-building ways when discussing vaccine efficacy and other topics online.

Publi Ou Fake

Brazil (Brasil) 🇧🇷

Uma cartilha em que trazemos ferramentas para que profissionais da área de marketing e publicidade possam navegar melhor e com mais confiança frente às complexidades da relação entre publicidade e desinformação.

Forum on Information & Democracy

Paris

Providing democratic safeguards to the global communication and information space

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.

Info/tegrity Resources

NDI's Google Sheet of guides, trainings, and reports on digital disinformation

Crowdsourcing Aid: A Case Study of the Information Chaos During India's Second Covid-19 Wave

India (Bhārat) 🇮🇳

A research paper

WhatsApp

WhatsApp archiver

India (Bhārat) 🇮🇳

The WhatsApp archiver consolidates chat files exported from different WhatsApp conversations into one database

Viral Spiral

India (Bhārat) 🇮🇳

Viral Spiral is an adaptive digital card game about sharing news on the Internet. The game reflects the ways and reasons misinformation is shared, letting players experience first hand the temptation to share fake news for their own gain and face the consequences of the harm it causes around them.