Discover the world's largest collection of projects using tech for the common good.
Factly
Factly strives to cultivate civic participation and engaging citizens in accessing, understanding, and using important government data/information at various levels
FactBar
The Digital Literacy Curriculum, focused on disinfo detection, was developed with the Finnish government for integration in schools, supported by the EU Parliament.
Facebook Digital Literacy Library
The Facebook Digital Literacy Library is hosted by Facebook and currently includes learning resources made available by Youth and Media at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.
Fact Check Initiative Japan
FIJ is a non-profit organization for the promotion of Japanese fact-checking aimed at protecting society from mis/disinformation.
Fact Crescendo
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.
Europe and Eurasia Regional Election Management Body Working Group on Social Media, Disinformation and Electoral Integrity
IFES looks forward to the virtual launch of a working group that will focus on tackling the challenges presented by social media and disinformation to electoral processes across Europe and Eurasia.
Ethiopia Check
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).
EU Code of Practice on Disinformation
The European Union developed a Code of Practice on Disinformation based on the findings of its High Level Working Group on the issue.
EU Disinfo Lab
EU DisinfoLab is an independent non-profit organisation focused on tackling sophisticated disinformation campaigns targeting the EU, its member states, core institutions, and core values.
Argentina's Ethical Digital Commitment
"Pledge signed by political parties and technology/social network companies committing to avoiding fake news and mechanisms of disinformation that may affect upcoming elections." - Countering Disinfo
EU vs. Disinformation
EUvsDisinfo is the flagship project of the European External Action Service’s East StratCom Task Force. It was established in 2015 to better forecast, address, and respond to the Russian Federation’s ongoing disinformation campaigns affecting the European Union, its Member States, and countries in the shared neighbourhood.
Engaging Women in Politics in Uganda
Organized an e-conference for over 150 women candidates for elected office in Uganda, with a focus on navigating social barriers to political participation, including misinformation and cyberbullying.
El Sabueso
Animal Politico's fact-checking project. "Fooling a dog is difficult."
Ecuador Chequea
Data enriches public debate and therefore strengthens democracy. An informed society is capable of making conscious decisions.
Dubawa
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.
Dutch Code of Conduct Transparency Online Political Advertisements
This Code of Conduct was published to address the issues of election transparency and disinformation in the digital sphere.
Disinfo Defense League Policy Platform
The Disinfo Defense League Policy Platform is a series of legislative, executive, and international recommendations addressing disinformation.
Disinformation campaign map
A map visualizing the Atlantic Council’s DFRLab research on coordinated disinformation campaigns.
Efecto Cocuyo Chequea
We are an independent Venezuelan media, which uses all its platforms for the free exercise of journalism and access to information.
DisinfoWatch
DisinfoWatch is a Canadian foreign disinformation monitoring and debunking platform.
Doble Check
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.
Digital Democracy Room
The Digital Democracy Room is an initiative of FGV DAPP to monitor the public debate on the internet and fight disinformation strategies which threaten the integrity of political and electoral processes, seeking to strengthen the democratic institutions.
Digital Ethical Pact
Panama's Digital Ethical Pact is an agreement where signatories pledge to follow the following: 1. Collaborate with the Electoral Tribunal so that the electoral ban is respected and electoral campaign is only carried out during the permitted periods of 45 days before the internal elections of the political parties and 60 days before the general elections.
Digital Democracy Risk Assessment: A User Guide
A user guide for civil society organizations and researchers to assess the vulnerability of a country’s electoral integrity to online manipulation.
Eltették
An interactive map to show the billions worth of properties that went from state-owned to privately owned in recent years, together with K Monitor
Digital Enquirer Kit
The Digital Enquirer Kit is centered around misinformation, fact-based research and digital security.
Digital Democracy Charter
"The Digital Democracy Charter outlines several guiding principles on countering online disinformation and strengthening our democracies given the new digital age." - Counteringdisinformation.org
Digital Democracy Monitor Toolkit
The Digital Democracy Monitor Toolkit seeks to empower researchers with the knowledge, tools and examples to analyse democratic discourse online.
Digit Eye
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.
DEMOS Engendering Hate Report: The counters of state-aligned gendered disinformation online
A report analyzing online spaces being weaponized to exclude women leaders and undermine the role of women in public life. It investigates gendered disinformation on Poland and the Philippines through Twitter data analyses.
Desconfío
Desconfío is an initiative launched by the Data Concepción team. It builds tools, produces research, and leads trainings.
Design 4 Democracy
Our mission is to ensure that information technology and social media play a proactive role in supporting democracy and human rights globally.
Detector de Mentiras
La Silla Vacía is an informative and interactive medium for people interested in current Colombian politics.
Detektor Media
Media Detector is a non-governmental organization established by Ukrainian journalists in January 2004.
Deeptrust Alliance
The DeepTrust Alliance is a global coalition of stakeholders advancing the fight against digital disinformation and deepfakes.
Defending Digital Democracy
Connects academic research on disinformation threats and vulnerability to governments, CSOs, technology firms, political organizations.
Debunk.eu
DEBUNK (demaskuok in Lithuanian) is a unique Lithuania-born initiative uniting competing media outlets, journalists, volunteers for a single purpose – to make society more resilient to orchestrated disinformation campaigns.
Data Analytics for Social Media Monitoring
This new guide is designed to help democracy practitioners better understand social media trends, content, data, and networks.
Cyber News Verification Lab
This project is an experiment in experiential learning through a cyber verification lab at the University of Hong Kong’s Journalism and Media Studies Centre.
Countering Misinformation about Armenia
Monitoring of the selected talk shows, newspapers, electronic periodicals of both Russian and Armenian mass media to examine the media coverage, the possible labelling and targeted information conveyed to wide audiences in the result of the activity of Russian and Armenian news and information periodicals, TV talk shows and websites.
CrashCourse Media Literacy
In 12 episodes, Jay Smooth teaches you Media Literacy! Based on an introductory college level curriculum, this series takes you through the history and psychology of media and gives you the skills to become more media savvy.
Countering Information Influence Activities: A handbook for communicators
The purpose of this handbook is to increase public communicators' awareness and understanding of information influence campaigns and develop their ability to respond.
Credibility Coalition
The Credibility Coalition brings people together to develop common standards for information credibility.
ContentBlockchain
The Content Blockchain Project was initiated in 2016 by a consortium of publishing, law and IT companies to research the possibilities of using blockchain technologies to advance the content and media ecosystem.
Network Contagion Research Institute
NCRI has built its own proprietary platform that has played a critical role in the identification and forecasting of emerging threats that threaten the Economic, physical and social health of civil society.
Memo 98
Memo 98 is a specialist media monitoring organization, with extensive experience of delivery media analyses on behalf of international institutions as well as technical assistance to civil society groups.
MOE Election Observation
The Election Observation Mission (La Misión de Observación Electoral, MOE) is an election observer group based in Colombia.
Monitor do WhatsApp
This system shows the most shared image, video, audio, messaging, and URLs content across over 300 WhatsApp public groups daily.
Mnemonic
Mnemonic is an NGO dedicated to archiving, investigating and memorializing digital information documenting human rights violations and international crimes.