Public Data Lab

A Field Guide to "Fake News" and Other Information Disorders

The project which is supported by First Draft, investigates the usage of digital methods in order to scrutinize false viral news, political memes, trolling practices. The project aims to provide a response to the demand for understanding the interplay between digital platforms, misleading information, viral content and their impact in everyday life.

EU DISINFO LAB

VERification Assisted by Artificial Intelligence (VERA.AI)

The project aims to continue and enrich the work started in the "project, titled, WeVerify, which was completed in November 2021. The project brings together leading research teams, technologists and end-users in the field of combating disinformation. Through a multidisciplinary approach, the project aims to provide solutions that can be used by journalists, fact-checking organizations, researchers and anyone who verifies content. Vera.ai solutions use artificial intelligence methods to support online content verification activities and deal with many types of content in various languages, such as audio, video, images and text.

EU DISINFO LAB

EDMO BELUX - Monitoring disinformation in Belgium and Luxembourg

The project aims to publish 800 fact-checks in five languages, conduct open source intelligence research on disinformation campaigns, develop and implement community-level media literacy activities in three languages, and provide annual cross-community audience studies on the impact of disinformation campaigns as well as annual evaluations on the effectiveness of platform responses to disinformation.

EU DISINFO LAB

ATHENA

ATHENA is a Horizon Europe project contributing to Europe's defense against foreign information manipulation and interference. It aims at early detection of relevant campaigns and a better understanding of their behavioral and societal impact as well as the effectiveness of implemented countermeasures.

EU DISINFO LAB

European Fact-Checking Standards Network

The project seeks to be the voice of European fact-checkers who uphold and promote the highest standards of fact-checking and media literacy in their effort to combat misinformation for the public benefit.

Simon Fraser University, School of Communication

The Disinformation Project

The project examines misinformation and fake news narratives in Canadian news.

Sanford School of Public Policy: Bill Adair, Mark Stencel, Christopher Guess, Erica Ryan, Joel Luther

The Reporters' Lab

The Reporters' Lab is a research lab scrutinizing and making researchers on fact-checking, trust in news media and related content.

Transdisciplinary Research at Hong Kong Baptist University: Celine Yunya Song, Yu Huang, Xin Huang, Raymond Li, Xiahoui Wang, Hazel Kwon

Fake News and the Spread of Online Misinformation in Hong Kong: Perception, Identification and Intervention

The project focuses on three different approaches. First, it aims to build a typology of the fake news ecosystem in Hong Kong, covering the types of misinformation and the individual-based motivations behind related issues. It plans to focus on how citizens perceive fake news and why users share fake news. Finally, it will study the spread of Chinese fake news by developing approaches to discover it. The project prioritizes building a fact-checking system that enables mass detection of fake news.

Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab: Sander van der Linden, Cecilie Traberg, Yara Kyrychenko, Miriam Remshard, Jon Roozenbeek, Charlotte A. Kukowski,

Bad News Game

The game is designed to provide an intervention against fake news that engages users and aims to build psychological resistance to online misinformation.

World Health Organization

The Africa Infodemic Response Alliance (AIRA)

The regional network aims to share safe, proven facts about health and struggle against dangerous misinformation about health.

Horizon Lab: Fatih Yilmaz, Samet Coban Annalotta Järvinen Ayhan Eker Furkan Akar Mert Serhan Arslan, Iqbal Alibhai

IMMUNE 2 INFODEMIC

IMMUNE 2 INFODEMIC seeks to immunize EU citizens against disinformation and misinformation by empowering them through different methods. The project consortium formulates and co-produces 3 tools: digital literacy, media literacy and critical thinking, which are applied on 3 selected themes: elections, COVID-19 and migration.

First Draft

First Draft

First Draft is a project to fight mis- and disinformation online founded in 2015 by nine organizations brought together by the Google News Lab. It included Facebook, Twitter, the Open Society Foundations and several philanthropic organizations. In June 2022, First Draft announced it would be shutting down, with its mission continuing at the Information Futures Lab.

European Science-Media Hub

Europea Science-Media Hub

With the motto "Bringing scientists, journalists and policymakers together: communicate better sound science to all", the European Science-Media Hub (ESMH) creates a network among policymakers, scientists and media involving science, academia, educational and research entities, professional associations of journalists and scientists.

George Mason University, Center for Climate Change Communication

The Cranky Uncle Game

The Cranky Uncle Game aims to raise awareness through caricature and critical thinking to combat misinformation. The game is made interactive by guiding users through a caricature of climate science denial, explaining 14 science denial techniques, including a variety of different logical fallacies from fake experts.

News Guard

News Guard

News Guard seeks to provide transparent tools against misinformation for readers, brands and democracies. Since2018, journalists and information experts among the team have collected, updated and displayed data associated with numerous news and information sources, catalogued and tracked the most prominent false analytics published online.

EUvsDİSİNFO

EUvsDİSİNFO

EUvsDİSİNFO was established in 2015. It seeks to determine, address and respond to alleged disinformation campaigns by the Russian Federation which affect European Union, its Member States and countries in the common neighborhood. The main objectiverelies on the development of awareness and understanding of disinformation practices.

EU DISINFO LAB

CROSSOVER

CrossOver monitors and measures the impact of content recommendation algorithms on social media. The study aims to reveal how content can lead to misinformation and disinformation. It aims to track and intervene in the spread of suspicious content on social media platforms such as Google News, YouTube, TikTok and Instagram. Among ythe main objectives monitoring recommendation algorithms to detect different types of information manipulation and disinformation, targeting the actors and narratives of disinformation campaigns in everyday life and election periods, revealing the actors and mechanisms involved, and raising awareness among both the public and policymakers can be specified.

Ted Rogers School of Management at Toronto Metropolitan University

Social Media Lab

The Social Media Lab demonstrates interdisciplinary content as a research laboratory at Toronto Metropolitan University's Ted Rogers School of Management. The lab seeks to explore how social media influences the way individuals and organizations communicate, share information, and build community and how these changes are affecting society.

Thomson Foundation

Rethinking Disinformation

The course "Rethinking disinformation" is designed to prevent the spread of disinformation. It explores why people are more likely to believe lies than the truth and how journalists can use this knowledge to stop false claims. The course also provides journalists with practical ways to recognize and expose misinformation, with training videos from Bellingcat's social media editor.

Özyeğin University

DE-CONSPIRATOR (Detecting and Countering Information Suppression from A Transnational Perspective)

The DE-CONSPIRATOR project aims to measure the impact of foreign-inspired information manipulation and interference (FIMI) strategies on political, social and societal events in EU member states and partner countries, including Turkey, and to develop strategies to combat it. The project has a purpose to increase resilience and awareness about international disinformation