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Factchecking

Explore 119 projects in the Factchecking category of the Civic Tech Field Guide.

119 projects

Namibia Fact Check

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

Namibia

POLIHIVE

POLIHIVE helps Gen Z Nigerians verify information, detect misinformation, and make informed civic decisions — all through play.

Nigeria

Factual

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

Romania
2013

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).

Ethiopia

Cazadores de Fake News

Somos una comunidad crowdsourcing que monitorea la desinformación difundidas en cadenas de WhatsApp y redes sociales entre venezolanos. Nuestro centro de operaciones es un grupo de Telegram abierto en el que analizamos colectivamente la información que recibimos.

Venezuela
Telegram, WhatsApp

PesaCheck

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.

East Africa
2016
indigenous

OSP

A fact-checking website designed to provide critical support to investigative journalists, fact-checkers, and data journalism experts by simplifying access to information from Armenian open sources.

Armenia

Kosh

Archive containing content scraped from all the different sources- the Tattle Jod telegram bot, Fact-checking sites, social media and chat apps.

India

Claim Buster

"Claim Buster allows for fact checking of individual personal claims or claims by public officials. Users can insert their own claims or links to claims said publically to find out their factuality." - Countering Disinfo

Arlington, Texas