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Disinformation campaigns by states, economic opportunists, and the misinformed themselves threaten to erode the common understandings, shared identities, and empirical bedrock that underlies our collective decisionmaking. While disinformation campaigns have used mass media to spread for many years, social media platforms have proven an exceptionally hospitable environment for the proliferation of falsehoods. Those looking to limit disinformation’s effect on society and bolster truth in media have likewise turned to technology to help keep up with the volume and precision of constantly evolving disinformation campaigns.

Suggested reading:

Matt Stempeck's research into how the Code for All network has advanced its strategies for fighting disinformation in different contexts around the world (2022)
Digital Disinformation and Vote Suppression, The Brennan Center for Justice (2020)
Virus Experts Aren’t Getting the Message Out Renée DiResta in The Atlantic (2020)
Safeguarding Democracy Against Disinformation Report by the German Marshall Fund of the United States (2020)
Browser Plug-ins That Spot Fake News Show The Difficulty Of Tackling The ‘Information Apocalypse’ Can software that spots Photoshopped images help stem the tide of misinformation? The Verge (2018)
Can an AI Fact-Checker Solve India’s Fake News Problem? An Indian startup is using an AI tool to curb misinformation. But India poses unique challenges for the technology. Undark (2019)
Factchecking, a Quartz Daily Obsession media collage (2019)
Fake news and fact-checking: 7 studies you should know about, a roundup from Journalist’s Resource (2020)
The children’s storyteller helping Taiwan sort fact from fiction, a helpful deep dive into disinfo-fighting tech (and misappropriation through national ‘fake news laws’) in Asia. Al Jazeera (2020).
CivicSpace.tech guide to Disinformation, including its relevance to civic space, opportunities, risks, and case studies (2020)

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Disinfo Defense League

Media Democracy Fund, Connecticut Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC

The Disinfo Defense League (DDL) is a distributed national network of organizers, researchers and disinformation experts disrupting online racialized disinformation infrastructure and campaigns that deliberately target Black, Latinx, Asian American/Pacific Islander and other communities of color.

RT and Sputnik's Role in Russia's Disinformation and Propaganda Ecosystem

Russian Federation 🇷🇺

US State Department report on state-funded misinformation

Fight disinformation

Doublethink Labs

Taipei

Doublethink Lab was founded in 2019 to strengthen democracy through enhancing digital defenses. Our work focuses on researching malign Chinese influence operations and disinformation campaigns and their impacts via the digital tools and methodologies we have developed.

LINE

Journal of Online Trust and Safety

Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA

The Journal of Online Trust and Safety is a cross-disciplinary, open access, fast peer-review journal that publishes research on how consumer internet services are abused to cause harm and how to prevent those harms.

211CHECK

Juba

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

Doublethink Lab's Disinfo Walkthrough

Taiwan (T'ai-wan) 🇹🇼

A collection of easy to use resources for identifying misinformation and its psychological tricks

Fight disinformation

Digital Forensic Research Lab

Washington, DC

The Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab) has operationalized the study of disinformation by exposing falsehoods and fake news, documenting human rights abuses, and building digital resilience worldwide.

human rights

Fight disinformation

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.

The Center for Informed Democracy and Social Cyber-Security (IDeaS)

5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Carnegie Melon's center for disinformation, hate speech and extremism online

Calling Bullshit course

Each of our lectures will explore one specific facet of bullshit. For each week, a set of required readings are assigned. For some weeks, supplementary readings are also provided for those who wish to delve deeper.

Fairwork

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

The Fairwork Foundation is a project that is working to set and measure standards in the platform economy.

Crosscheck

France 🇫🇷

CrossCheck is a collaborative journalism project that brings together newsrooms across France and beyond to accurately report false and misleading claims.

Maldita App

Spain (España) 🇪🇸

Maldita.es presenta la primera aplicación móvil capaz de avisarte cuando entras en una web con desinformación // a mobile application to fight against misinformation and promote transparency through the confirmation of facts and journalistic techniques

Factcheck.org

Washington, DC

A Project of The Annenberg Public Policy Center

Get Bad News

A game that puts you in the mindset of propagandists and agents promoting fake news, propaganda and hate-speech to help the user understand how fake news is made and promoted

Full Fact

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧

Full Fact is the UK's independent factchecking organisation

Center for an Informed Public

The Information School, Mary Gates Hall, Northeast Grant Lane, Seattle, Washington

To resist strategic misinformation, promote an informed society, and strengthen democratic discourse.

Database of fact-checking groups around the world

The Reporters’ Lab maintains a database of global fact-checking sites.

Check My Ads

Take back control of your ads. Keep your brand away from fake news, disinformation, and hate speech. Get an ad check.

Factual

Romania 🇷🇴

Primul site de fact-checking pe politicile și declarațiile publice din România.

Politifact

Duke University, Durham, NC

PolitiFact is a fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others on its Truth-O-Meter.

Tella

Washington, DC

Tella is a secure documentation app for Android, making it easier and safer to produce verifiable evidence and collect data in challenging environments

apps

The Disinformation Report

White paper analysis of the Internet Research Agency’s (IRA) activities to influence US politics

reports

Fact-Checkers Legal Support Initiative

To meet this need and help ensure fact-checkers can continue doing their important work, this new initiative will provide legal support including connecting fact-checkers with lawyers, establishing a fund to help pay legal fees when pro bono support isn’t available, and publishing guides covering the main legal and non-legal threats that fact-checkers face and how they can be mitigated.

TechAndCheck Newsletter code

Duke University, Durham, NC

Code to send out a daily tip sheet for fact checkers

Center for Countering Digital Hate

London

The Center for Countering Digital Hate's primary goal is to disrupt alliances between hate actors and political parties actors in digital spaces.

The Factual

San Mateo, California

The hottest news topics, the most credible stories - across the political spectrum.

Vistinomer

North Macedonia (Severna Makedonija) 🇲🇰

Holds you Accountable! Macedonian fact-checking outlet

FactChecker.in

India (Bhārat) 🇮🇳

FactChecker.in is India’s first dedicated Fact Check initiative.

PesaCheck

East Africa

PesaCheck is a fact-checking initiative to verify the financial and other statistical numbers quoted by public figures across East Africa, supported by International Budget Partnership, and Code for Africa affiliates in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.

indigenous

The Institute for Data, Democracy, and Politics

2121 I St NW, Washington, DC 20052

To understand digital media’s influence on national dialogue and opinion, and to develop sound solutions to disinformation.

Global Factchecking Summit

In the four years since fact-checkers around the world first gathered in London for the inaugural Global Fact-Checking Summit, a lot has happened

Trustable Technology mark

10969 Berlin, Germany

It empowers consumers to make informed decisions & enables companies to prove their connected devices are trustworthy.

Colombia Check

Colombia 🇨🇴

Digital, open and colaborative platform in which news and articles are fact-checked and published regularly for maintaining healthy debates and conversations in Colombia.

Check

San Francisco

a platform for collaboratively verifying news in real time

Bad News

From fake news to chaos! How bad are you? Get as many followers as you can.

Trusting News Project

Beginning in January 2016, our team interviewed journalists and nonjournalists to get a sense of the elements that create trust and credibility between communicator and receiver. We read related academic research and industry best practices.

Decodex

Le Monde's database of fake news websites

Openly Operated

535 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94105

The free transparency certification

Factcheck.me

Berkeley, California

Factcheck.me tracks bot activity, amplified images, and viral links.

The Fight Against Disinformation in the U.S.: A Landscape Analysis

Shorenstein Center at the Harvard Kennedy School, Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA

a map of the disinformation initiatives currently in play to undergird newsrooms and improve media literacy at this challenging moment for the free press