Media Monitoring

LEXOTA (Laws on Expression Online: Tracker and Analysis) offers a comprehensive overview of laws, policies and other government actions on disinformation in every country in Sub-Saharan Africa. The tool is powered by multilingual data and context-sensitive insight from civil society organisations and uses a detailed framework to assess whether government responses to disinformation are human rights-respecting.

Catalyzing a global network of digital forensic researchers, following conflicts in real time. Mission: To identify, expose, and explain disinformation where and when it occurs using open source research; to promote objective truth as a foundation of government for and by people; to protect democratic institutions and norms from those who would seek to undermine them in the digital engagement space. To create a new model of expertise adapted for impact and real-world results.

The Digital Democracy Room is an initiative of FGV DAPP to monitor the public debate on the internet and fight disinformation strategies which threaten the integrity of political and electoral processes, seeking to strengthen the democratic institutions.

Monitoring the political debate of social networks in Brazil and now in three more countries in Latin America.

The Digital Democracy Monitor Toolkit seeks to empower researchers with the knowledge, tools and examples to analyse democratic discourse online.

This toolkit was prepared by Democracy Reporting International (DRI) as part of our efforts on Social Media and Democracy.

Media Detector is a non-governmental organization established by Ukrainian journalists in January 2004. From 2004 to April 2016, the NGO was called Telekritika, as was the site of the same name, which had existed since September 2001. The leader of the team is Natalia Ligachova, who headed the site and the NGO. It is an online news organization that complies stories on misinformation to raise national media literacy in preventing susceptibility to info disorder. They have multiple projects ranging from media literacy to online fact-checking to journalist training.

CITAD is a non-governmental and non-profit organization that is committed to the use of information and communication technologies for development and promotion of good governance. It was established first as a single project (Computer Literacy Project) in 1996 but was expanded in 2000 to include other projects. Now it incorporates six different thematic units. CITAD sees technology as a tool to promote sustainable development, good government and peaceful coexistence. It uses ICT to empower youth and women through access to information, skills and online mentoring opportunities.

Fact-checking database online since 2010

A fundamental pillar of the democratic system is that there is freedom of expression and dissemination, and that citizens are duly informed to make correct decisions in their daily lives.

With the arrival of social networks, at the same time that an extraordinary space for intercommunication has been opened, specific interests have emerged to influence the people who participate in them by spreading false news (fake news) to misinform. Even more so in polarized political settings.

Fact check archive. The Centre was established to mobilise global opinion and resources for democratic development and provide an independent space to reflect critically on the challenges posed to the democratization and development processes in West Africa, and also to provide alternatives and best practices to the sustenance of democracy and development in the region.
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At Cazadores de Fake News we analyze and verify news related to Venezuela, disseminated through social networks and instant messaging. The results that we publish are the result of collaborative work carried out in the Fake News Telegram Cazadores forum, a group open to citizen participation and in constant growth.