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22 projects

An Open Reference System for Connected Device Labeling

Consumer Reports's add-on to the White House's "cyber trust mark" for consumer connected devices

New York, USA
2023
https://dtpr.io/ActiveOpen-source

Digital Trust for Places & Routines (DTPR)

Digital Trust for Places & Routines (DTPR) is an open-source communication standard to increase the transparency, legibility and accountability of digital technology in the built environment.

Toronto
city, Sustainable cities and communities, place-based

Telegram Page Verification

Telegram offers verification for public figures and organizations so that users can easily identify official sources.

Telegram

Newsguard

"Sponsored partly by Microsoft, Newsguard is a plugin for browsers such as Chrome, Mozilla, and Microsoft's Edge that validates news websites for users based on 9 journalistic integrity criteria." - Counteringdisinformation.org

extensions

SynthID

A tool to watermark and identify content generated through AI

Mountain View, CA, USA
Google

Global Disinformation Index

We have designed a neutral, independent and transparent index to assess news websites on their risk of carrying disinformation.

2018

News Provenance Project (NPP)

The News Provenance Project seeks to diminish the spread of misinformation by empowering readers to make more informed, confident judgments about the news they see online.

New York Times Building, 8th Avenue, New York, NY, USA

SAAFE DelibTech

Human-centred principles for the design and implementation of deliberative technologies

UK

Telegram third-party verification

Telegram allows public figures and organizations to become verified, so users can quickly identify official sources of information. To further improve transparency on Telegram, official third-party services are now able to assign extra verification icons to user accounts and chats.

Telegram