The Free Speech Project at Georgetown University works to document and analyze the ways Free Speech is threatened in the United States through its flagship enterprise, the Free Speech Tracker, an online tool for monitoring Free Speech challenges and controversies in education, civil society, and government.

• democracy
• free speech

• Media
• Research and policy centers
• Media and social media analysis

A Taiwanese developer Carol created a chatbot called Aunt Meiyu on popular messaging app LINE. Aunt Meiyu is designed to combat disinformation circulated in private chat group, especially family chat groups

• LINE

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
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Empowering everyone with a better understanding of content.

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Media

HealthTools gives citizens localised answers to everyday health challenges via SMS and the web to help the mwananchi get the best medical care. Data is from reputable official sources, with additional crowd verification

• Good health and well-being

• Media
• Engagement journalism

Players take on the role of suffragettes trying to occupy the House of Commons, or police officers trying to break up the protest.

• The Tech
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• Games and gamification

Did you know that you can use Minecraft for more than a simple fun? Learn about great Block by Block initiative for community participation in urban design.

• workshops
• Minecraft

• Media
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

The New York Times beta Android app appears to be experimenting with a GoFundMe link to help readers touched by a story give back. Newspapers have run fundraising drives for local residents for years,...

• The Tech
• Media
• Solutions journalism

The Streetwyze app is the world’s first neighborhood navigator powered by local knowledge.

• apps

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Media

This website collects and verifies fake news reports.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

A place to post an opinion you accept may be flawed, in an effort to understand other perspectives on the issue. Enter with a mindset for conversation, not debate.

• Reddit

• The Tech
• Media
• Filter bubble poppers

Create your own (fake) news empire by playing Fake It To Make It, a simulation-style, social-impact game about how fake news is created and distributed for a profit.

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

Bury me, my Love tells Nour’s story as she flees Syria and tries to reach Europe. But why did the young woman decide to leave?

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

Demagog Association is Poland's first factchecking organization. It's main aim is the improvement of the quality of the public debate through unbiased and reliable information.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

The Solutions Story Tracker® is a curated, database of rigorous reporting on responses to the world's most pressing social problems.

• The Tech
• Media
• Learn about civic tech

With local journalism in crisis, Northwestern University has assembled a team of experts in digital innovation, audience understanding and business strategy. The goal: reinvent the relationship between news organizations and audiences to elevate enterprises that empower citizens.

• The Tech
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Human-Led + AI-Supported Listening

• apps

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Media

We made a board game to discuss local economic policy ideas.

• Decent work and economic growth

• The Tech
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• Games and gamification

Block’hood is a city building simulator video game that focuses on ideas of ecology, interdependence and decay.

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

Social Media Scraper is a tool helping journalists and watchdogs to keep politicians accountable for the statements they make in social media.

• The Tech
• Media
• Advocacy tech

Factchecking Serbian politics

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

The impact of the digital information environment — especially the influence of social media

• Media
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

The news has always played an essential role in our lives, keeping us informed about the world and the issues we care about.

• civic features
• Google

• The Tech
• Media
• The People

iCivics works to ensure every student in America receives a quality and engaging civic education and graduates from high school well prepared and enthusiastic for citizenship

• youth

• The Tech
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• The People

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

the home of online investigations

• The Tech
• Media
• Emerging tech

a convenient place to verify that our efforts are to have hope in the future cleaner network environment, cultivate hope we have a verification message can alert attitude Instead of sharing information

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

A card deck for revolution

• The Tech
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• Organize campaigns

The Trevor Project received a grant from Google AI Impact to do machine learning on incoming calls to route callers to FAQs or humans.

• LGBTQI
• suicide prevention

• The Tech
• Media
• Emerging tech

The basic idea of the game is to end the monopolistic practices of the 3-company-combinations of the game board.

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

a project to improve the transparency behind Facebook’s algorithms

• Facebook

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Media

It gives you the free tools you need to analyse data for your business in one place, so you can make smarter decisions.

• commercial
• Google

• The Tech
• Media
• Media and social media analysis

Toolkit for tracking advertisers on partisan news channels with sampling, data science, and open data.

• Civic data
• Media
• Advocacy tech

Balanced News from the Left, Center and Right

• The Tech
• Media
• Filter bubble poppers

Rede de comunicação livre que busca novas formas de produção e distribuição de informação a partir de uma lógica colaborativa de trabalho.

• The Tech
• Media
• Solutions journalism

Saving the nation with selfies and memes

• The Tech
• Media
• The People

The Quartz Bot Studio builds narrative experiences for messaging and voice platforms.

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Media

NationStates is a free nation simulation game. Build a nation and run it according to your own warped political ideals

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

Comprehensive collection of open verification tools and methods

• guides

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

The Media Party is a three days event that brings together 2000 entrepreneurs, journalists, software programmers and designers from five Continents to work together for the future of media.

• The Tech
• Media
• The People

a fellowship program to empower social entrepreneurs, artists, activists, scholars and other catalysts to increase awareness, understanding and engagement around pressing areas of public interest, with particular attention to underrepresented communities and their ideas

• The Tech
• Media
• The People

The Annenberg Innovation Lab is a curious, creative and committed Think & Do Tank at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism

• The Tech
• Media
• The People

Quandary promotes ethical thinking and reasoning through a three-episode story that follows the development of a futuristic space colony on a new planet.

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

Win the White House teaches students in grades 4-12 about the challenges of running for office by empowering them to create and manage their own presidential campaigns.

• The Tech
• Media
• Organize campaigns

The Dangerous Speech Project was founded in 2010 to study speech (any form of human expression) that inspires violence between groups of people – and to find ways to mitigate this while protecting freedom of expression.

• hate speech

• Media
• The People
• Fight disinformation

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

A speculative story sprint collection

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media
• Drones

“The Checkpoint tipline is primarily used to gather data for research, and is not a helpline that will be able to provide a response to every user.”

• WhatsApp

• The Tech
• Media
• The People

An investigative series deploying algorithms to detect copy-paste legislation

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Media

Opportunity Awaits: Introducing (Port)Land of Opportunity, Our Newest Game

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

Built as a microcosm of Berlin, the game gives kids a chance to try out different roles in city life – and provides a testbed for ideas on real urban challenges

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification