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Prebunking and inoculation

Explore 7 projects in the Prebunking and inoculation category of the Civic Tech Field Guide.

"While debunking or fact-checking is an important tactic to address information risks, the technique is reactive and often overcome by the speed and virality of misinformation, disinformation and hate speech. Pre-bunking is a preventative measure that aims to prepare audiences to recognize and resist information risks."
\- UNHCR

7 projects
https://thelogiclens.com/Active

LogicLens

LogicLens is a commercial reasoning-checker browser extension that flags logical fallacies, loaded language, missing context and persuasion techniques in the web pages and news people read.

Canada
Adjacent Fields, AI literacy, Fight disinformation, Foundational layers, Media, Media literacy, Prebunking and inoculation, The Tech
https://disint.ai/Active

Disint.ai

disint.ai - a narrative intelligence and social listening platform for YouTube.

Netherlands
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big listening, Fight disinformation, Media, Narrative tech, Network visualizations, Prebunking and inoculation
https://crankyuncle.com/Active

Cranky Uncle

The Cranky Uncle game uses cartoons and critical thinking to fight misinformation.

Fight disinformation, Games and gamification, Peer-reviewed research, Prebunking and inoculation
Climate action, apps
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-09462-5?utm_source=indicator.media&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=briefing-ai-comes-for-fashion-and-a-tool-for-guessing-email-addresses&_bhlid=9998876ed9770d8e027abcc26b9bd612b05e13afActive

Psychological inoculation improves resilience to and reduces willingness to share vaccine misinformation

Our findings suggest that a short, low-cost, gamified intervention can increase resilience to vaccine misinformation.

Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, USA
2025
Fight disinformation, Games and gamification, Peer-reviewed research, Prebunking and inoculation
vaccines, Good health and well-being
https://www.badvaxx.com/Active

Bad Vaxx

Level up your defenses! Learn to build resistance against manipulation.

Fight disinformation, Games and gamification, Peer-reviewed research, Prebunking and inoculation
vaccines, Good health and well-being
https://detectfakes.kellogg.northwestern.edu/Active

Detect Fakes

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

Northwestern University, Campus Drive, Evanston, IL, USA
Deepfakes, Fight disinformation, Media, Prebunking and inoculation
https://semblen.com/Active

Semblen

Semblen is a freemium media-literacy tool that flags rhetorical techniques sentence by sentence in pasted articles, videos and posts, and checks their factual claims against cited sources.

Factchecking, Fight disinformation, Govtech, Media, Media literacy, Prebunking and inoculation, The Tech, Voting and elections