Factchecking and Verification

Fact checking startup; "Our mission is to help the world understand the quality, credibility, safety and reliability of online information. We are building fair and transparent AI-based tools that empower users to critically evaluate content quality, and protect businesses from supporting hateful, biased, deceptive or factually incorrect content online. Our technology does not replace people. In fact, it relies on the knowledge of experts, and the curated feedback of crowds, to make it better.

Fact Crescendo is an independent, unbiased fact-checking website that is committed to bringing the fact behind every news, debunking mis-interpreted & hoax news on a daily basis on false, mis-informed, social media as well as mainstream media. We believe in transparency of news source & methodology while carrying out our core activities, a commitment to transparency of funding as well as organization and open & honest corrections policy in case we make a mistake.

We are a non-partisan advocate of civic awareness and participation. We contribute to the political process in our country by providing facts to counter politically motivated deception and falsehood.

Our goal is to equip citizens with facts gathered through scholarship, investigative journalism, and aggregation of other useful information already in public domain to increase public knowledge and understanding and support informed political choices.
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FIJ is a non-profit organization for the promotion of Japanese fact-checking aimed at protecting society from mis/disinformation.

FIJ staff and volunteers monitor questionable information daily using the FCC system.

Media partners publish fact-checking articles based on their own investigations and information provided by FIJ.

The FCC system, which was developed by Smartnews, Inc. and Tohoku University Natural Language Processing Lab, automatically detects questionable information from Twitter.

Emergent is a real-time rumor tracker. It's part of a research project with the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University that focuses on how unverified information and rumor are reported in the media. It aims to develop best practices for debunking misinformation.

Fooling a dog is difficult. He uses his sense of smell, his sight, he digs in the ground. With his senses he discovers everything ... even the lies of a politician. On Wednesday, January 28, 2015, Animal Político started its speech verification project called El Sabueso to contribute to monitoring the public debate. El Sabueso will analyze a phrase of relevance to national life and, with hard data, will establish whether it is true or false. This type of journalistic exercise is known as fact-checking and has been a trend in Latin America for several years.

El Poder de Elegir is a project to monitor and fact-check the political information that circulates through WhatsApp during the campaign period of the presidential elections of 2018. It is proposed to monitor and verify in real time the information that circulates through this messaging service and that is related to candidates and elections, in order to be leaders in the debate on voter manipulation strategies, involving civil society.

Journalism the Illuminates

We are an independent Venezuelan media, which uses all its platforms for the free exercise of journalism and access to information. We address and develop the issues that interest and concern people. We give the voice to the protagonists, to the people.

Data enriches public debate and therefore strengthens democracy. An informed society is capable of making conscious decisions.

Under this premise, in October 2016 ECUADOR CHEQUEA was born : the first medium dedicated to the verification of public discourse and misleading content that circulates on the Internet. The platform is an initiative of Fundamedios , which since 2007 defends freedom of expression and the press, promotes quality journalism and trains journalists. The statutes of the organization and its legal registration are available: Statutes.

DUBAWA is Nigeria’s independent verification and fact-checking platform, initiated by the Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism (PTCIJ) and supported by the most influential newsrooms and civic organisations in the country to help amplify the culture of truth in public discourse, public policy, and media practice. It is non-partisan, accepting only to uphold the values of accuracy, balance, transparency, verification, independence, and accountability in all its operations.