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Fight Disinformation

Explore 414 projects in the Fight Disinformation category of the Civic Tech Field Guide.

414 projects

Social Media Hoax Slayer

In the last few years, the Social Media having a wider reach and faster, started polluting human minds by anti-social elements, wrong doers, pranksters etc.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Maryland

Detect Fakes

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

Northwestern University, Campus Drive, Evanston, IL, USA

Namibia Fact Check

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

Namibia

Dangerous Speech Project

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.

2015
hate speech

Proto's WhatsApp Checkpoint Tipline

“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.”

London
WhatsApp

TrolleyBust

TrolleyBust is a service for tracking and blocking Internet trolls and other sources of anti-Ukrainian propaganda.

Ukraine

Code of Conduct: Measures to Address Disinformation Intended to Cause Harm During the Election Period

South Africa’s “Code of Conduct: Measures to Address Disinformation Intended to Cause Harm During the Election Period” (in draft form as of July 2020) is aimed at “every registered party and every candidate” with additional obligations under the code for how those parties and candidates must take appropriate recourse against any member, representative or supporter of that party or candidate who behaves in violation of the code.

South Africa