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.
Brooklyn, NY
This project has been put to rest.
https://misinfocon.com/how-sourceror-lets-anyone-make-use-of-wikipedias-guide-to-reliable-source-66633f68fc56
Sourceror
Sourceror was meant to leverage Wikipedia’s credibility data to improve media literacy and combat disinformation on the web. It's not clear if it launched.
San Francisco
The platform provides a browser extension that informs Internet users of the quality of the content they consume, and an API that enables developers to incorporate the Wikipedia community’s reliability evaluations into new technologies.
- Org. type
- Non-profit / charity / foundation
- Project type
- Tool or platform
- Country
- United States of America 🇺🇸
- Language(s)
- English
- Tech stack
- BuiltWith report →
- Categories
- Fight disinformation, Media, Media and social media analysis
- Tags
- Wikipedia, extensions
- Added
- 2022-05-31
- Last modified
- 2026-07-12T16:44:23.000Z
Additional details
- Platforms
- WhatsApp, Wikipedia
- Formats
- extensions
- Number of integrations
- 0
- Geographic focus
- Global
- Source
- [Database of Informational Interventions](https://counteringdisinformation.org/interventions)
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