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
https://trolltracker.investigate.africa/
Troll Tracker / Twoops Tracker
Track the trolls & sock-puppets poisoning our democracies
Active
Africa, Asia
Open source: Yes
Troll Tracker monitors and unmasks disinformation actors who try to evade responsibility by deleting their inflammatory posts on Twitter. Troll Tracker is a collaborative effort by civic tech industry experts including Code for All, Code for Africa, DFRLab, iLab, PesaCheck and CivicSignal. The team is well positioned to create a tool that empowers investigative projects across Africa with years of experience across all organisations.
Resources
- Project type
- Tool or platform
- Country
- Asia
- Language(s)
- English
- Tech stack
- BuiltWith report →
- Categories
- Fight disinformation, Media, Media and social media analysis
- Tags
- X (Twitter)
- Added
- 2022-07-06
- Last modified
- 2026-07-12T16:44:25.000Z
Additional details
- Platforms
- Wordpress, X (Twitter)
- Number of integrations
- 0
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