Tools

DIRT is a protocol for decentralized information curation that uses token staking to incentivize honesty. DIRT is not a Token Curated Registry (TCR). DIRT is a protocol to build TCRs.

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.

In 2019, Confirmado developed a series of tools to receive and process complaints of false news, and tools to detect disinformation, that went viral. They partnered with specialists and technologists who collaborated for months with the same goal: to combat misinformation. They exceeded their goal. In 7 months, they published 215 pieces, including the analysis of 130 affirmations of candidates for elected office.
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Check was founded in 2011 as Checkdesk, and in 2016, the product acquired its new name. The Check project has worked to build online tools, support independent journalists, and develop media literacy training resources that aim to improve the investigative quality of citizen journalism and help limit the rapid spread of rumors and misinformation online. In addition to building software, they run workshops and panels, and they contributed to the European Journalism Centre’s Verification Handbook, edited by Craig Silverman, with case studies and an Arabic language translation.

CaptainFact is a collaborative fact-checking tool for YouTube videos. People help each others to verify informations in this way:
1. Video is added on the website.
2. Statements are extracted from the video.
3. Fact-checkers confirm or refute the statements.

BotSlayer is an application that helps track and detect potential manipulation of information spreading on Twitter. The tool is developed by the Observatory on Social Media at Indiana University --- the same lab that brought to you Botometer and Hoaxy.

Botometer (formerly BotOrNot) checks the activity of a Twitter account and gives it a score based on how likely the account is to be a bot. Higher scores are more bot-like. Increasing evidence suggests that a growing amount of social media content is generated by autonomous entities known as social bots. Many social bots perform useful functions, but there is a growing record of malicious applications of social bots.

This project uses advanced machine learning techniques to detect propaganda accounts on Twitter.

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Blackbird .AI views the spread of disinformation as one of the world’s largest threats to national security, business, and the public as a whole. To combat disinformation, Blackbird.AI seeks to expose those continually spreading disinformation. Made up of a team of entrepreneurs, technologists, national security experts, and journalists, Blackbird.AI seeks to maintain order and clarity to information in society, particularly in the digital space.

Bitpress News is a nonpartisan corporation founded in 2017 to fight misinformation in a new way. Through the combination of technology and news analysts, we aim to prevent the spread of misinformation online. We accomplish this in three steps:

1. Identifying misinformation when it occurs.
2. Fingerprinting the instance of misinformation so that it can be identified in different forms (articles, memes, tweets, videos, etc.).
3. Providing this fingerprint to platforms and consumers so they are aware when they encounter misinformation.