
SSRC Media Well
Disinformation, misinformation, and “fake news” are longstanding phenomena that, in the wake of the digital revolution, have become newly politicized and consequential. SSRC's research on the topic.
This new guide is designed to help democracy practitioners better understand social media trends, content, data, and networks.
By sharing lessons learned and best practices from across our global network, we hope to empower our partners to make democracy work online by helping them: • Collaborate with local, national, or international partners; • Understand different methods of data collection; • Make the best use of mapping and data visualization; • Analyze the online ecosystem; • Detect malicious or manipulated content and its source; • Understand available tools for all aspects of social media monitoring; and • Know how to respond with data, methods, research, and more through social media.


Disinformation, misinformation, and “fake news” are longstanding phenomena that, in the wake of the digital revolution, have become newly politicized and consequential. SSRC's research on the topic.

The CLC is a volunteer network of individuals trained to monitor for, critically evaluate, and report misinformation on diverse topics central to our civic life: voting, elections, public health, civil rights, and other important issues.

A collection of easy to use resources for identifying misinformation and its psychological tricks

For this first phase of our program, WhatsApp is commissioning a competitive set of awards to researchers interested in exploring issues that are related to misinformation on WhatsApp.