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Explore 1,028 projects in the Media category of the Civic Tech Field Guide.

Journalism, storytelling, and other forms of interactive media are critical to civic engagement in democracies. Here we track those media and journalism tech projects that directly relate to citizens working to shift power in society.

1028 projects

SynthID Detector

SynthID Detector is a free verification portal from Google DeepMind that checks uploaded images, video and audio for SynthID watermarks to show whether they were AI-generated.

2026

Alliance4Europe: Report a case

Report a case is a citizen-reporting service from Alliance4Europe that collects user reports of illegal or harmful online content and pursues them as Digital Services Act complaints against platforms.

Europe
2026

RJI Interactive Map of Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPP) Laws

The Reynolds Journalism Institute's up-to-date guide to anti-SLAPP laws — which target frivolous lawsuits that attempt to impede free speech — is now available as an interactive map.

Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
2026

VeriScope AI

VeriScope is an AI-powered news verification platform that combats misinformation through real-time fact-checking, bias detection, and source credibility analysis.

2026

chicago.com

Local guides, community conversation, and news from every Chicago newsroom, gathered in one place.

Chicago, IL
2026

SovereignLab

SovereignLab is a commercial subscription intelligence-briefing service that sends AI-drafted, relevance-scored digests of public-source news across six sectors, including civic policy.

Oklahoma City, OK
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2027 et moi

2027 et moi ("2027 and Me") is a non-partisan, open-source voter-information platform that compiles sourced candidate profiles, platforms, and polls for France's 2027 presidential election.

2026

Worthle

Worthle is a free daily guessing game, currently in beta, that has players estimate the net worth of lesser-known politicians in the US, UK and Canada.

2026

Emergency Mode for News

Emergency Mode for News is a free disaster-preparedness resource hub that gives U.S. journalists and newsrooms checklists, templates, training and publishing tools for before, during and after climate disasters.

2026