# ggroup

disarm_id: G000003
name: ABT Shield by Edge NPD
url: https://abtshield.com
sector: Technology
region: Europe
summary:
  ABT SHIELD technology is an AI-based tool, designed to limit the impact of bots and trolls on readers’ experience and limit the spread of online disinformation. ABT SHIELD is a product designed in close cooperation with publishers, advertisers, academic institutions, think tanks and EU institutions.


disarm_id: G000004
name: Access Now
url: https://www.accessnow.org/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: Global
summary:
  Access Now is dedicated to protecting digital rights through a 24/7 Digital Security Helpline, legal support, advocacy campaigns and cross-sector partnerships, and policy analysis and recommendations. Access Now works on issues related to freedom of expression and has responded to proposals aimed at curbing disinformation online by stressing the need to develop evidence-based solutions that protect online users.


disarm_id: G000005
name: Accountability Journalism and Fact-Checking Project (American Press Institute)
url: https://www.americanpressinstitute.org/category/fact-checking-project/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  The American Press Institute’s Accountability Journalism and Fact-Checking Project aims to increase and improve fact-checking and other accountability journalism practices.


disarm_id: G000007
name: Ad Observer (New York University)
url: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ad-observer/enliecaalhkhhihcmnbjfmmjkljlcinl
sector: Education/academia
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  Ad Observer is a crowdsourcing Chrome browser extension that will gather ads from a user's Facebook news feed—to enable investigative journalism and research.The project is run by the Online Political Ads Transparency Project at New York University.


disarm_id: G000009
name: AFP Medialab
url: https://www.afp.com/en/agency/medialab
sector: Media
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Europe
summary:
  The AFP Medialab is a multi-disciplinary team of journalists and engineers. Since the 1st of January 2016, the Medialab has participated in the InVID project (social media video content verification on social networks), funded by the European Union Horizon 2020 framework.


disarm_id: G000010
name: Africa Check
url: https://africacheck.org/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Global
summary:
  Africa Check promotes accuracy in public debate and the media in Africa. The goal of their work is to raise the quality of information available to society across the continent.


disarm_id: G000011
name: Agence France Presse (AFP)
url: https://www.afp.com/en
sector: Media
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Europe
country: France
summary:
  AFP is a global news agency that worked with First Draft to implement the CrossCheck Project during the 2017 French presidential elections. The organization has since started its own fact-checking blog and helped set up the Journalism Trust Initiative with Reporters Without Borders, the European Broadcasting Union, and the Global Editors Network. AFP is one of Facebook's Third-Party Fact-Checkers. AFP also runs a Medialab, where it develops innovative tools for verifying content and understanding information flows.


disarm_id: G000012
name: Agência Lupa
url: https://piaui.folha.uol.com.br/lupa
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: South America
country: Brazil
summary:
  Agência Lupa is a Brazilian fact-checking organization. A member of the Trust Project, the organization also provides training to students and professionals to contribute to the prevalence of fact-checking techniques and tools.


disarm_id: G000013
name: Agência Pública (Truco Project)
url: https://apublica.org/truco-antigo/
sector: Media
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: South America
country: Brazil
summary:
  Agência Pública is an investigative journalism outfit that conducts fact-checking through its Truco project.


disarm_id: G000014
name: AI Foundation
url: http://www.aifoundation.com
sector: Civil Society/NGO
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  Reality Defender is a browser extension that scans every piece of media content appearing in the browser to check for known fakes, and uses AI algorithms to check the content for signs of alterations. Reality Defender also allows for users to report media as fake, which builds their database of known fakes and improves the browser extension’s accuracy.


disarm_id: G000015
name: Alethea Group
url: https://www.aletheagroup.com/
sector: Other
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  We protect clients from the threat of disinformation that targets brands, reputations, employee safety, or financial bottom lines through our industry-leading investigation and remediation services.


disarm_id: G000017
name: Alliance for Europe: Social Media Intelligence Unit
url: https://www.alliance4europe.eu/digital-intelligence/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
volunteers: Y
region: Europe
country: Belgium
summary:
  The Social Media Intelligence Unit (SMIU) collects and analyses social media data from across Europe. The platform enables tracking disinformation and hate-speech, aiming to develop a predictive model of its spread.


disarm_id: G000018
name: Alliance for Securing Democracy (German Marshall Fund) (GMF)
url: https://securingdemocracy.gmfus.org/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Public Policy
secondary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
primary_subject: Democracy
secondary_subject: Civil Liberties (human rights)
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  Housed at GMF, the Alliance for Securing Democracy convenes policymakers and technical experts to provide analysis and policy recommendations concerning authoritarian interference in democracies. The Alliance for Securing Democracy runs an Authoritarian Interference Tracker and the Hamilton 2.0 interactive dashboard, which provides information on Russian state-funded narratives.


disarm_id: G000019
name: Alliance of Democracies
url: https://www.allianceofdemocracies.org/transatlantic-commission-on-election-integrity/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Public Policy
primary_subject: Democracy
secondary_subject: Civil Liberties (human rights)
region: Global
summary:
  The Alliance of Democracies runs the Transatlantic Commission on Election Integrity (TCEI), which convenes individuals from media and government to prevent foreign interference in elections. TCEI advocates for campaigns to adopt its Pledge for Election Integrity, conducts monitoring in countries with upcoming elections, and promotes public policy solutions addressing deepfakes and other emerging technologies that threaten the integrity of elections.


disarm_id: G000020
name: American Press Institute (API)
url: https://www.americanpressinstitute.org
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Journalism
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  Through its Fact-checking and Accountability Journalism Project, API provides research and training to help journalists and publishers improve their political fact-checking work. In collaboration with the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute,


disarm_id: G000021
name: American Press Institute: Trusting News project
url: https://trustingnews.org
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  API hosts the Trusting News project, which seeks to build trust in newsrooms through newsroom coaching and research on transparency, consumer news decisions, and social media.


disarm_id: G000023
name: Amped Software
url: https://ampedsoftware.com/authenticate
sector: Technology
region: Global
summary:
  Amped Software offers image and video forensics and authentication tools that enable users to detect whether images or videos have been manipulated or altered. Amped uses peer-reviewed, scientific techniques for its product, and law enforcement agencies have used the tool for rigorous use cases such as discerning whether an image can be used in court.


disarm_id: G000025
name: Antidote
url: https://antidote.ngo/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Education (public)
primary_subject: Extremism/indoctrination
secondary_subject: Societal resilience
country: USA
summary:
  "Exit counselors" or "de-radicalizers," Antidote helps people caught up in cultic ideologies to reconnect with reality


disarm_id: G000026
name: Aos Fatos
url: https://www.aosfatos.org/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: South America
country: Brazil
summary:
  Aos Fatos conducts fact-checking and provides technology and consulting services to organizations interested in automated fact-checking products and data verification. They also fconduct act-checking for internal reporting. Aos Fatos built Fátima, a fact-checking robot for Facebook messenger. Aos Fatos is one of Facebook's Third-Party Fact-Checkers.


disarm_id: G000027
name: AP Fact Check (Associated Press (AP))
url: https://www.apnews.com/APFactCheck
sector: Media
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  AP is an international news conglomerate which addresses global breaking news via quality journalism and reporting. AP Fact Check is the formal public fact-checking service of the organization and is one of Facebook's Third-Party Fact-Checkers.


disarm_id: G000028
name: ARD-FaktenFinder
url: https://www.tagesschau.de/faktenfinder/
sector: Media
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Europe
country: Germany
summary:
  ARD-FaktenFinder is the fact-checking program of German media organization ARD's online news platform.


disarm_id: G000029
name: Argonne National Laboratory: Decisions and Infrastructure Sciences Division
url: https://www.anl.gov/dis/gat
sector: Education/academia
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  The Decisions and Infrastructure Sciences Division at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) is currently applying predictive modeling to combat disinformation. They are capable of providing a deep access data analytics system.


disarm_id: G000030
name: Arizona State University: Detecting Frames
url: http://www.public.asu.edu/~hdavulcu/IJSC16.pdf
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  Detecting Frames is a research project at the School of Computing, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering at Arizona State University. It outlines the utilization of computational power to understand the subliminal framing of topics in the media and within networks. Similar to the way that sentiment analysis understands attitudes based on keyword usage, “Detecting Frames” understands perspective and bias packaging based on sentence annotation.


disarm_id: G000032
name: Asociatia Presei Independente (API)
url: http://api.md/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Europe
country: Moldova
summary:
  API is a resource center and association of newsrooms dedicated to improving the quality of independent journalism in Moldova through advocacy and professional development. The organization is coordinating the "STOP FALS!" Campaign to educate news consumers and combat the spread of false or manipulative information.


disarm_id: G000033
name: Aspen Institute
url: https://www.aspeninstitute.org/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  The Aspen Institute convenes leaders and thinkers to address challenges to global prosperity and peace. Through its work on communications and culture and security and global affairs, the Aspen Institute has published analysis and hosted events on election security, disinformation, and cybersecurity. It also hosts the Knight Commission Trust, Media and Democracy, which convenes academic, journalistic, technology, and advocacy experts to address the American media landscape.


disarm_id: G000034
name: Assembler
url: https://jigsaw.google.com/assembler/
sector: Technology
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  Assembler is an experimental platform advancing new detection technology to help fact-checkers and journalists identify manipulated media. The experiment is developed by Jigsaw and Google Research.


disarm_id: G000035
name: Association for International Affairs (Asociace Pro Mezinárodní Otázky) (AMO)
url: http://www.amo.cz/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Public Policy
secondary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
primary_subject: Democracy
secondary_subject: Civil Liberties (human rights)
region: Europe
country: Czech Republic
summary:
  AMO conducts research and advocacy on issues in international relations through policy briefings and research papers, conferences and roundtables, educational projects, and collaboration with other public policy organizations. AMO runs a project on Strengthening Public Scrutiny in Ukrainian Regions, which works to address disinformation in Ukraine through research and training. Its partners on this project include the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Institute of Mass Information, stopfake.org, and demagog.cz.


disarm_id: G000036
name: Astroscreen
url: https://www.astroscreen.com/
sector: Technology
region: Europe
summary:
  Astroscreen counters disinformation and terrorist content spread via “astroturfing” by detecting fake social media accounts and networks of bots.


disarm_id: G000038
name: Atlantic Council: Digital Forensics Research Lab (DFR Lab)
url: https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/programs/digital-forensic-research-lab/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Investigations
secondary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  The Atlantic Council's Digital Forensics Research Lab (DFR Lab) documents and tracks foreign-backed influence operations and provides analysis on these incidents in order to aid the public in identifying and exposing such activities. DFR Lab also runs 360/OS, an annual conference providing training to journalists and activists on open source, social media, and digital forensic tools for identifying and documenting malign uses of digital technologies. The Atlantic Council also coordinated #ElectionWatch, an effort to monitor foreign influence in elections in Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico in 2018.


disarm_id: G000039
name: Atlantic Council: Disinfo Portal (Eurasia Center)
url: https://disinfoportal.org/about-disinfo-portal/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  The Atlantic Council's Eurasia Center has created Disinfo Portal, which aggregates information about ongoing efforts to counter disinformation and provides a database of partners and experts.


disarm_id: G000040
name: Attestiv Inc.
url: https://www.attestiv.com
sector: Technology
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  Attestiv provides authenticity for photos, videos and other media, limiting deepfake threats, data tampering, and helping to enable new media protection solutions for businesses and organizations.


disarm_id: G000041
name: attribution.news
url: https://attribution.news
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Global
country: UK
summary:
  The attribution.news project is a joint initiative led by First Draft and the Stanford Internet Observatory. The website aims to provide more accessible background explanations to assist reporters in covering attribution.


disarm_id: G000042
name: Australian Associated Press FactCheck
url: https://factcheck.aap.com.au/
sector: Media
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Australia and Oceania
country: Australia
summary:
  FactCheck is the Australian Associated Press's fact-checking initiative. FactCheck is a signatory of the International Fact-Checking Network.


disarm_id: G000043
name: Australian Department of Home Affairs: Electoral Integrity Assurance Taskforce
url: https://www.aec.gov.au/elections/electoral-advertising/electoral-integrity.htm
sector: Government
primary_role: Investigations
region: Australia and Oceania
country: Australia
summary:
  Led by the Australian Department of Home Affairs, the Electoral Integrity Assurance Taskforce is composed of members of various government agencies and deals with foreign cyber-enabled threats to election integrity.


disarm_id: G000044
name: Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)
url: https://www.aspi.org.au/program/international-cyber-policy-centre
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: Australia and Oceania
country: Australia
summary:
  ASPI conducts research on issues in international peace and security and Australian foreign policy. Through its International Cyber Policy Centre, members of ASPI have published reports on the topics of disinformation, persuasion-based cyber warfare, and Chinese influence campaigns.


disarm_id: G000045
name: Authoritarian Interference Tracker (Alliance for Securing Democracy)
url: https://securingdemocracy.gmfus.org/toolbox/authoritarian-interference-tracker/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Investigations
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  The Authoritarian Interference Tracker exposes the Russian and Chinese governments’ foreign interference activities in more than 40 transatlantic countries from 2000 to the present across the five tools ASD tracks. These tools are: information manipulation, cyber operations, malign finance, civil society subversion, and economic coercion. The Tracker shines a light on the tactics and trends that define the Russian and Chinese governments’ interference efforts in democracies, and highlights the interconnectivity between different parts of the asymmetric toolkit. Forthcoming iterations of the Tracker will expand to catalog authoritarian interference by other regimes that adopt similar tactics to undermine democracies.


disarm_id: G000048
url: https://www.cidob.org/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: Europe
country: Spain
name:
  Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (Centro de Barcelona para Asuntos Internacionales) (CIDOB)

summary:
  CIDOB conducts research and policy analysis on global issues in peace and security. As part of its work on security, CIDOB researchers have published on disinformation and EU responses, Russia's Spanish media efforts, and deepfakes. CIDOB works with the German Marshall Fund to organize the Mercator European Dialogue, which convenes members of European parliaments to discuss public policy issues. Through this program, the German Marshall Fund convened policymakers in May 2019 to discuss disinformation and fake news in European elections.


disarm_id: G000049
name: BBC Media Action
url: https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaaction/our-work/covid-19
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Media
region: UK
country: Europe
summary:
  Our dedicated teams moved rapidly to adapt our existing projects to address the knock-on effects of COVID-19 – from increased levels of violence against women, to children losing out on an education during lockdown. Through media, we’re helping people understand what they can do, individually and as a community, and how they can hold their leaders to account.We are committed to supporting the international response for the long haul – helping people to survive, cope and recover from COVID-19, meeting their diverse and changing needs, and supporting local media to keep their communities informed. As an independent charity, we are not funded by the BBC TV Licence Fee. We rely on the support of generous donors – governments, foundations, corporations and individuals – to make our work possible. Trusted and accurate information will save lives.


disarm_id: G000050
name: BBC Beyond Fake News
url: https://www.bbc.co.uk/beyondfakenews/
sector: Media
primary_role: Societal Resilience
region: Europe
country: UK
summary:
  BBC reporting, education and training to help you understand the challenges posed by misinformation and fake news


disarm_id: G000051
name: Be Internet Citizens (YouTube)
url: https://internetcitizens.withyoutube.com/
sector: Technology
primary_role: Societal Resilience
region: Europe
summary:
  YouTube, a Google company, is addressing disinformation through media literacy. Be Internet Citizens has been designed to teach teenagers about media literacy, critical thinking and digital citizenship, with the aim of encouraging young people to have a positive voice online.


disarm_id: G000052
name: Belgian Expert Group on Disinformation and Fake News
url: https://www.decroo.belgium.be/nl/expertengroep-formuleert-aanbevelingen-voor-aanpak-fake-news
sector: Government
primary_role: Public Policy
region: Europe
country: Belgium
summary:
  In 2018, Digital Agenda Minister Alexander De Croo called for the creation of an expert group composed of academics and journalists to formulate proposals for countering disinformation in Belgium. The expert group delivered its recommendations in July 2018.


disarm_id: G000053
name: Bellingcat
url: https://www.bellingcat.com
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Investigations
secondary_role: Fact checking
volunteers: Yes
region: Europe
country: UK
summary:
  Bellingcat is an independent international collective of researchers, investigators and citizen journalists using open source and social media investigation to probe a variety of subjects, including online influence operations. It also runs training programs for investigative journalists and publishes training guides in its Online Investigation Toolkit.


disarm_id: G000057
name: BitPress
url: https://bitpress.news/
sector: Technology
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Global
summary:
  Bitpress is a nonpartisan fact-checking organization that uses technology solutions and trained analysts to identify misinformation and prevent its spread.


disarm_id: G000058
name: Blackbird
url: https://www.blackbird.ai/
sector: Technology
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  Blackbird.AI is a company that provides artificial intelligence tools to detect emerging propaganda campaigns and help clients respond.


disarm_id: G000060
name: BOOM
url: https://www.boomlive.in/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Asia
country: India
summary:
  BOOM is an Indian fact-checking initiative that provides content in English, Hindi, and Bengali. The organization runs a WhatsApp helpline, and it is part of the International Fact-Checking Network.


disarm_id: G000061
name: Bot Sentinel
url: https://botsentinel.com/
sector: Technology
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  Bot Sentinel is a free and open platform and browser plugin that detects likely bots on Twitter. A dashboard lets users explore trending topics, network connections, and data associated with suspicious accounts. The product also provides a “block list” that enables users to block likely bots from their own Twitter spheres.


disarm_id: G000062
name: Botometer
url: https://botometer.iuni.iu.edu/#!/faq
sector: Education/academia
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  Botometer is a web-based program that uses machine learning to classify Twitter accounts as bot or human by looking at features of a profile including friends, social network structure, temporal activity, language and sentiment. Botometer outputs an overall bot score (0-5) along with several other scores that provides a measure of the likelihood that the account is a bot.


disarm_id: G000067
name: Brookings Institute: Project on Global Democracy and Emerging Technology
url: https://www.brookings.edu/experts/alina-polyakova/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
primary_subject: Democracy
secondary_subject: Civil Liberties (human rights)
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  The Brookings Institution's Project on Global Democracy and Emerging Technology addresses state and non-state technological threats and convenes technology and policy communities around these issues.


disarm_id: G000068
name: Brookings Institution: Center for Technology Innovation
url: https://www.brookings.edu/center/center-for-technology-innovation/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  The Brookings Institution's Center for Technology Innovation provides research, policy analysis, and advocacy on global technology innovation. Part of its research agenda includes digital media, news, and entertainment. The Cybersecurity and Election Interference Project publishes analysis on election security, foreign interference in elections, and the potential for widespread disinformation and proliferation of deepfakes in electoral contexts. The Project on Global Democracy and Emerging Technology addresses state and non-state technological threats and convenes technology and policy communities around these issues.


disarm_id: G000069
name: Brookings Institution: Cyber Security and Election Interference
url: https://www.brookings.edu/series/cybersecurity-and-election-interference/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Public Policy
primary_subject: Democracy
secondary_subject: Civil Liberties (human rights)
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  The Cyber Security and Election Interference is a series designed to be accessible to policymakers, journalists, and the general public, will explore digital threats to American democracy, cybersecurity risks, and ways to mitigate possible problems. It will also take a look at several examples of the problem, how other democracies are coping with the threats, and how Congress, state officials, political parties, and candidates can protect themselves from cybersecurity attacks.


disarm_id: G000073
name: Callsign
url: https://www.callsign.com
sector: Technology
region: Europe
summary:
  Callsign leverages deep learning and technical/ behavioral forensics to differentiate between legitimate and fraudulent users, allowing companies to keep information secure by adding an additional layer of protection to logins, and potentially disallowing bad actors from accessing secure information and accounts. Callsign technology may ensure that bad actors are not able to hijack legitimate accounts to propagate disinformation. Furthermore, genuine identities could remain safe from account takeovers, account borrowing, and “first person fraud” used to spread adversarial propaganda and disinformation.


disarm_id: G000075
name: Captain Fact
url: https://captainfact.io/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Global
summary:
  CaptainFact is a collaborative fact-checking project that relies on a browser extension to show fact-checked statements in YouTube videos.


disarm_id: G000076
name: Cardiff University: Open Source Communications, Analytics Research Development Centre
url: http://upsi.org.uk/oscar
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Investigations
region: Europe
country: UK
summary:
  The Open Source Communications, Analytics Research (OSCAR) Development Centre is an innovative, multi-disciplinary Centre bringing together academics and police practitioners to develop a research evidence base around the use of open source information for policing and community safety services. Funded by the Home Office / HEFCE / and the College of Policing, the work of the centre will help to develop open source methodologies, technologies and insights that will shape the future of policing.


disarm_id: G000078
url: https://carnegieendowment.org/specialprojects/counteringinfluenceoperations
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: North America
country: USA
name:
  Carnegie Endowment: Partnership for Countering Influence Operations (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)

summary:
  The Partnership for Countering Influence Operations (PCIO) believes that little progress will be made without a spirit of partnership between governments, the tech industry, media, academia, and civil society. Such collaborations are challenging but necessary in order to accomplish the three aims that PCIO believes are vital: to answer difficult policy problems related to influence operations; to find ways to measure the effect of adversarial influence operations; and to develop methods for measurement and evaluation of countermeasures.


disarm_id: G000079
url: http://www.casos.cs.cmu.edu/index.php
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
primary_subject: Democracy
secondary_subject: Civil Liberties (human rights)
region: North America
country: USA
name:
  Carnegie Mellon University: Center for Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems (CASOS)

summary:
  CASOS develops and applies computational tools for utilizing data to analyze social phenomena, to explain and predict social behavior using these tools, and to measure and evaluate the impact of policies and procedures affecting social behavior. CASOS has a project on the diffusion of false and misleading information and draws comparisons between community responses to key issues.


disarm_id: G000080
name: Carnegie Mellon University: Center for Informed Democracy and Social Cyber-Security (CIDC / IDEAS)
url: https://www.cmu.edu/ideas-social-cybersecurity/
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
primary_subject: Democracy
secondary_subject: Civil Liberties (human rights)
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  CIDC studies online disinformation and its impact on democracy. The Center conducts research and connects individuals working on disinformation and related issues in order to educate journalists and policymakers. Its research and teaching focus on identifying disinformation and its sources and countering its spread.


disarm_id: G000081
name: Carnegie Mellon University: Social Cybersecurity Project (Human-Computer Interaction Institute)
url: https://socialcybersecurity.org/
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  The Social Cybersecurity Project leverages insights from social psychology and other fields to develop novel interventions and strategies for nudging adoption of expert-recommended tools and practices


disarm_id: G000083
name: CASM Digital Research Lab (Demos)
url: https://demos.co.uk/research-area/casm/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: Europe
country: UK
summary:
  A joint venture between UK-based Demos and the University of Sussex, the CASM Digital Research Lab is an initiative that utilizes machine learning to interpret natural language data and derive insights about technology policy. CASM has produced reports on information operations, Russian influence operations on Twitter, the future of political campaigning, social media and the 2017 British General Election, social media in Nigerian elections, and digital political advertising.


disarm_id: G000084
name: Cato Institute
url: https://www.cato.org/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  The Cato Institute conducts research and analysis on American domestic and foreign policy issues. Its scholars have written on social media regulation in the face of disinformation, and the Institute hosts a Project on Emerging Technologies which works on issues at the intersection of new technologies and civil liberties.


disarm_id: G000086
sector: Government
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: Europe
country: France
name:
  Center for Analysis, Planning and Strategy of France (Centre d'analyse, de prévision et de stratégie) (CAPS)

url:
  https://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/fr/le-ministere-et-son-reseau/le-centre-d-analyse-de-prevision-et-de-strategie/

summary:
  CAPS is composed of academic experts and diplomats that provide research and analysis on medium- to long-term trends in international affairs and foreign policy. In partnership with the Institute for Strategic Research, CAPS produced a comprehensive report on influence operations and recommendations for governments, civil society organizations, and private actors for mitigating the impact of hostile influence operations.


disarm_id: G000087
name: Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT)
url: https://cdt.org/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Public Policy
primary_subject: Democracy
secondary_subject: Civil Liberties (human rights)
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  CDT provides research and advocacy on public policies designed to preserve freedom and innovation online. CDT's experts provide analysis on legislation and social media platforms' efforts aimed at curbing disinformation and protecting the integrity of elections.


disarm_id: G000088
name: Center for Democratic Transition (Centar za Demokratsku Tranziciju) (CDT)
url: http://www.en.cdtmn.org/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: Europe
country: Montenegro
summary:
  CDT is dedicated to promoting democratic accountability and transparency in Montenegro through advocacy, research, monitoring of institutions and policies. CDT worked with NATO's Public Diplomacy Division to run a project on countering disinformation and propaganda.


disarm_id: G000089
name: Center for East European Policy Studies (Austrumeiropas Politikas Pētījumu Centrs) (CEEPS)
url: http://appc.lv/eng/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: Europe
country: Latvia
summary:
  CEEPS conducts research and analysis on Latvian foreign policy with a focus on Russia's influence in European politics and security. Its scholars have contributed to research on resilience to disinformation in Central and Eastern Europe and participated in expert discussions on Russian influence operations organized by the European Center for Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats. CEEPS is also part of the Center for European Policy Analysis's #DisinfoNet


disarm_id: G000090
name: Center for Euro-Atlantic Studies (Centar za Evroatlantske Studije) (CEAS)
url: https://www.ceas-serbia.org/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: Europe
country: Serbia
summary:
  CEAS conducts research and analysis on public policy, international cooperation, and global security with a focus on Central and Eastern Europe. CEAS is a partner of the Atlantic Council's Disinfo Portal.


disarm_id: G000091
name: Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)
url: https://www.cepa.org/disinfonet
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  The StratCom Program housed at CEPA is "an innovative, on-the-ground effort to monitor, collate, analyze, rebut and expose Russian disinformation in Central and Eastern Europe." The program seeks to create analytical toolkits for countering disinformation, host workshops, monitor the effectiveness of Russian propaganda, provide data on ongoing efforts, and provide policy guidance. CEPA also coordinates #DisinfoNet, a coalition of think tanks and organizations working to understand and combat Russia’s information operations.


disarm_id: G000092
name: Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR)
url: http://www.revealnews.org/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Investigations
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  Through its publishing platform Reveal, CIR seeks to empower the public and hold leaders accountable through investigative journalism. The organization has published an online guide to disinformation.


disarm_id: G000093
name: Center for Strategic & International Studies: Defending Democratic Institutions (CSIS)
url: https://www.csis.org/programs/international-security-program/defending-democratic-institutions
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Public Policy
secondary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
primary_subject: Democracy
secondary_subject: Civil Liberties (human rights)
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  This project seeks to counter Russia, and potentially other adversaries, in their efforts to disrupt democracy and cultivate a public distrust of democratic institutions. A key focus of this initiative is on understanding and countering adversary attacks on America’s justice system, to include courts, judges, prosecutors, and the rule of law. Improving cybersecurity of institutions and individuals is a crucial mechanism for strengthening America’s capacity to guard against threats to democracy. In addition, the initiative will focus on building national resilience against information operations that threaten to undermine public respect for democratic institutions.


disarm_id: G000094
name: Center for Strategic & International Studies: Gray Zone Project
url: https://www.csis.org/grayzone
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  CSIS’s International Security Program has analyzes hybrid and Gray Zone threats and aims to identify how the United States can best deter, campaign in, and respond to gray zone approaches.


disarm_id: G000095
name: Center for Strategic & International Studies: Transnational Threats Project (CSIS)
url: https://www.csis.org/programs/transnational-threats-project
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  CSIS coordinates a Transnational Threats Project, which has addressed Russian interference in the U.S. context and U.S. strategies to combat Russian information warfare, within the context of a broader focus on terrorism, insurgency, and crime.


disarm_id: G000096
name: Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD)
url: https://csd.bg/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Public Policy
secondary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
primary_subject: Democracy
secondary_subject: Civil Liberties (human rights)
region: Europe
country: Bulgaria
summary:
  CSD conducts research and advocacy on issues related to European integration, political institutions, and economic and political development. The organization's research agenda includes a focus on state capture and russian influence, especially in the Black Sea countries and the Western Balkans, and its experts have written on media capture, propaganda, and Russian economic influence.


disarm_id: G000097
name: Central European Policy Institute
url:
  http://www.cepolicy.org/publications/anatomy-info-war-how-russias-propaganda-machine-works-and-how-counter-it


disarm_id: G000098
name: Centre Against Terrorism and Hybrid Threats (Czech Ministry of the Interior)
url: https://www.mvcr.cz/cthh/Default.aspx
sector: Government
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: Europe
country: Czech Republic
summary:
  Operational since 2017, the Centre Against Terrorism and Hybrid Threats is a division of the Czech Ministry of the Interior designed to monitor and respond to influence operations with public policies and awareness-raising efforts. The center also deals with terrorism, security aspects of migration, extremism, and other disruptions to public order and safety.


disarm_id: G000100
name: Centre for Euro-Atlantic Integration and Democracy (CEID)
url: https://www.ceid.hu
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
region: Europe
country: Hungary
summary:
  CEID conducts research, publishes analysis, and holds roundtable discussions and conferences on how to strengthen transatlantic relationships. The CEID is part of the Center for European Policy Analysis’s #DisinfoNet and cooperated with Ukrainian Prism and the EAST Center in their work on the Disinformation Resilience Index, with the Centre for International Relations in their work on countering Kremlin-backed disinformation, and with the Finnish Institute of International Affairs in their “Fog of Falsehood” report on Russian deception in Ukraine.


disarm_id: G000101
name: Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
url: https://www.ceps.eu/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Public Policy
secondary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
primary_subject: Democracy
secondary_subject: Civil Liberties (human rights)
region: Europe
summary:
  CEPS conducts research and hosts events and discussions on a range of issues affecting European domestic policies. CEPS has produced a number of publications on EU strategies for understanding and countering disinformation and on content moderation strategies online, including a study commissioned by the European Parliament on possible EU actions to address fake news and emerging threats like deepfakes.


disarm_id: G000102
name: Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)
url: https://www.cigionline.org/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: North America
country: Canada
summary:
  CIGI is dedicated to conducting research on Canadian and international public policy and security issues. In June 2019, CIGI partnered with the Transatlantic Commission on Election Integrity to produce an Election Risk Monitor that assesses threats and potential responses to disinformation in the context of Canada’s elections.


disarm_id: G000103
name: Centre for International Relations (Centrum Stosunków Międzynarodowych) (CSM)
url: http://www.csm.org.pl/en/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: Europe
country: Poland
summary:
  CSM conducts research and analysis on issues in Polish foreign policy and European policy and is part of the Center for European Policy Analysis’s #DisinfoNet.


disarm_id: G000104
name: Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST)
url: https://crestresearch.ac.uk/
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
region: Europe
country: UK
summary:
  CREST conducts behavioral and social science research to better understand threats to national security and develop strategies for countering them. The organization has addressed conspiracy theories and online behavior in its work.


disarm_id: G000105
name: Centre for Research, Transparency and Accountability (CRTA)
url: https://www.istinomer.rs
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
primary_subject: Democracy
secondary_subject: Civil Liberties (human rights)
region: Europe
country: Serbia
summary:
  CRTA is dedicated to promoting accountability and transparency in democratic politics. The organization runs a project called Istnomer, which conducts fact-checking and reporting in support of free media, institutional transparency, and political accountability.


disarm_id: G000107
name: Certified Content Coalition
url: https://www.certifiedcontentcoalition.org/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  The Certified Content Coalition grew out of CableLabs with the goal of developing standards for trustworthy publishers.


disarm_id: G000109
name: Chatham House
url: https://www.chathamhouse.org/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: Europe
country: UK
summary:
  Chatham House conducts research and analysis on issues in public policy and international peace and security. Chatham House experts have published research and hosted discussions through the International Security Department on issues related to disinformation, information warfare, elections, and global cybersecurity.


disarm_id: G000111
name: Check Your Fact
url: https://checkyourfact.com/
sector: Media
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Global
country: USA
summary:
  Check Your Fact is the fact-checking initiative of the Daily Caller. The site is known for its ties to white nationalists. It is one of six third-party organizations working together to fact-check content for American users. The partnership has already come under intense criticism from climate journalists (among others) who are concerned that the Daily Caller’s editorial stance on issues like climate change, will spread even more misinformation Facebook.


disarm_id: G000115
name: CirroLytix
url: https://www.cirrolytix.com/
sector: Technology
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Asia
summary:
  CirroLytix is a data analytics research company specializing in data ethics and machine learning technologies for social impact. Their tool, "Troglodyte," provides online researchers, journalists and fact checkers with an extensive database for matching sources with information and exposing causal links, conspiracies, and associated disinformation agents.


disarm_id: G000117
name: Cities on the Internet Association (Stowarzyszenie Miasta w Internecie) (MWI)
url: https://mwi.pl/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Societal Resilience
region: Europe
country: Poland
summary:
  MWI is dedicated to the development of digital competency and literacy in Polish citizens. Through the project Digital Poland of Equal Opportunities, MWI is addressing digital literacy among Polish adults with the help of volunteers that encourage individuals over the age of 50 to engage online. The organization also develops educational materials for and provides training to Polish citizens of all ages.


disarm_id: G000118
name: Citizen Evidence Lab (Amnesty International)
url: https://citizenevidence.org/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Investigations
region: Global
summary:
  Amnesty International's Citizen Evidence Lab provides resources for researchers, journalists, and activists documenting and exposing human rights abuses using content verification, data science, remote sensing, crowd-sourcing, and digital security tools. One of their projects, called Youtube DataViewer, helps extract information from Youtube videos.


disarm_id: G000119
name: City University of New York: Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism
url: https://www.journalism.cuny.edu/
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Journalism
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  The Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism runs the Quality Project in partnership with the World Economic Forum to aggregate efforts to assess the quality of online information and allow users to select a personalized weighting of quality indicators.


disarm_id: G000122
name: Civil Liberties Union for Europe
url: https://www.liberties.eu/en
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Public Policy
primary_subject: Democracy
secondary_subject: Civil Liberties (human rights)
region: Europe
summary:
  Civil Liberties Union for Europe is network of civil liberties watchdogs that carries out public advocacy and campaigning and that provides research and analysis to policymakers on how to advance civil liberties in law and public policy. Its recent campaigns have concerned censorship, data privacy, the protection of civil society, and migration. The organization has written on efforts to curb disinformation within the European Union and its member states.


disarm_id: G000123
name: ClaimBuster
url: https://idir.uta.edu/claimbuster/
sector: Education/academia
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  ClaimBuster is a tool developed by researchers at the University of Arlington to provide automated live fact-checking.


disarm_id: G000124
name: Clean Up The Internet
url: https://www.cleanuptheinternet.org.uk
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Public Policy
region: Europe
country: UK
summary:
  Clean up the internet is an independent, UK-based organisation concerned about the degradation in online discourse and its implications for democracy. They campaign for evidence-based action to increase civility and respect online, and to reduce online bullying, trolling, intimidation, and misinformation.


disarm_id: G000127
name: CNA
url: https://www.cna.org/centers/cna/cip/information-environment
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
region: Global
country: USA
summary:
  Recent CNA work on disinformation topics includes understanding state and non-state malign inﬂuence on partners and allies in Europe; identifying and analyzing the range of tools available to state and non-state actors in Africa and the Middle East; examining the use of the cyber domain to conduct information warfare; and analyses of messages, themes, and audiences in the Indo-Paciﬁc region.


disarm_id: G000128
name: Co-inform EU
url: https://coinform.eu/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Societal Resilience
region: Europe
summary:
  Co-Inform brings together universities and small and medium enterprises in Europe to collaborate on tools for digital literacy with the aim of addressing disinformation. The project has put together a glossary on terms related to disinformation and will produce additional tools to be tested in three European countries by 2021.


disarm_id: G000131
name: Colombia Check
url: https://colombiacheck.com/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: South America
country: Colombia
summary:
  Colombiacheck is a Colombian fact-checking project and a member of the International Fact-Checking Network.


disarm_id: G000134
url: https://journalism.columbia.edu/craig-newmark-center
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Journalism
region: North America
country: USA
name:
  Columbia University: Craig Newmark Center for Journalism, Ethics and Security (Graduate School of Journalism)

summary:
  Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism houses the Craig Newmark Center for Journalism Ethics and Security, which received funding in 2019 and will address journalism ethics in the digital age.


disarm_id: G000135
name: Columbia University: Tow Center for Digital Journalism (Graduate School of Journalism)
url: https://towcenter.columbia.edu
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Journalism
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  The Tow Center examines digital journalism's industry-wide economic trends, its cultural shifts, and its relationship with the broader, constantly changing world of technology, and houses the Emergent research project.


disarm_id: G000138
name: Common Cause social media monitoring
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
volunteers: Y
region: North America
country: USA
url:
  https://www.commoncause.org/our-work/voting-and-elections/election-protection/stopping-cyber-suppression-and-voting-disinformation/

summary:
  The national, nonpartisan Election Protection coalition works so all voters have an equal opportunity to participate in the political process. Made up of more than 100 local, state and national partners, Election Protection works year-round to advance and defend your right to vote


disarm_id: G000139
name: Competition and Markets Authority (CMA UK)
url: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/competition-and-markets-authority
sector: Government
country: UK
summary:
  The CMA is an independent non-ministerial department which leads the Government’s Digital Markets Taskforce, and seeks to regulate the digital sphere by: enabling disruptors to challenge incumbents; empowering consumers through choice and control; supporting quality services and content online and providing industry, especially SMEs, with fair access to digital markets to be able grow their businesses.


disarm_id: G000141
name: Comprova
url: https://projetocomprova.com.br
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: South America
country: Brazil
summary:
  Comprova is a collaborative fact-checking organization in Brazil that unites journalism partners to investigate, contextualize, and clarify fake news.


disarm_id: G000142
name: Congo Check
url: http://www.congocheck.net/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Africa
country: DRC
summary:
  Congo Check is a fact-checking and image verification organization based in the Democratic Republic of Congo and a member of the International Fact-Checking Network.


disarm_id: G000144
name: ConPruebas
url: http://www.plazapublica.com.gt/content/conpruebas
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: South America
country: Guatemala
summary:
  ConPruebas is a fact-checking project run by Plaza Pública at Rafael Landívar University, inspired by Chequeado.


disarm_id: G000147
name: Correctiv
url: https://correctiv.org/en/
sector: Media
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Europe
summary:
  Correctiv is an investigative journalism outfit that provides training for citizens and journalists aimed at reducing the impact of disinformation. The organization also coordinates an annual Campfire Festival to foster conversation around the future of digital journalism and is developing a hub for nonprofit journalists in Europe. The organization is one of Facebook's Third-Party Fact-Checkers.


disarm_id: G000149
name: Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
url: https://cfr.org
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  The CFR provides research and analysis on issues related to international public policy, law, and security. Under the mantle of programs like the Digital and Cyberspace Policy Program, National Security and Defense Program, U.S. Foreign Policy Program, and Europe Program, CFR scholars have authored reports on containing and countering Russia’s foreign interference efforts, defending American elections from foreign interference, botnets, and deepfakes, among other topics.


disarm_id: G000150
name: Council on Foreign Relations: Digital and Cyberspace Policy Program
url: https://cfr.org
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  The Digital and Cyberspace Policy program addresses one of the most challenging issues facing the country in the twenty-first century: keeping the global internet open, secure, and resilient in the face of unprecedented threats. Digital technologies have become ubiquitous; nearly five billion people use a cell phone, and approximately 4.5 billion are on the internet.


disarm_id: G000151
name: Countering Disinfo
url: https://counteringdisinformation.org/
summary:
  A guide to promoting information integrity.  This resource combines the collective wisdom of organizations on the front lines of combatting disinformation globally. This living project provides an outline of what’s being done to address the challenge in key areas and provides a searchable database of the organizations around the world engaged in making the digital landscape safe for democracy


disarm_id: G000153
name: Credibility Coalition
url: https://credibilitycoalition.org/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
volunteers: Y
region: Global
country: USA
summary:
  The Credibility Coalition brings people together to develop common standards for information credibility.


disarm_id: G000154
name: Credibility Coalition: Misinfosec Working Group (MisinfosecWG)
url: https://misinfocon.com/misinformation-has-stages-7e00bd917108
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  The Credibility Coalition’s Misinfosec Working Group (“MisinfosecWG”) maps information security principles onto misinformation. Their current work is to develop a tactics, techniques and procedures (TTP) based framework that gives misinformation researchers and responders a common language to discuss and disrupt misinformation incidents.


disarm_id: G000156
name: CrowdTangle
url: https://www.crowdtangle.com/
sector: Technology
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  CrowdTangle is owned by Facebook and offers digital strategic communications services. Among many of its services, CrowdTangle provides platform access which allows users to report false news.


disarm_id: G000161
name: CUNY: News Integrity Initiative
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Societal Resilience
region: North America
country: USA
url:
  https://www.journalism.cuny.edu/centers/tow-knight-center-entrepreneurial-journalism/news-integrity-initiative/

summary:
  The News Integrity Initiative (NII) at the Newmark J-School was launched in 2017 to advance media literacy and increase trust in journalism.


disarm_id: G000162
name: Cyabra
url: www.cyabra.com
sector: Technology
region: Global
summary:
  Cyabra has developed AI-based technologies to identify bots, sockpuppets and trolls in social media platforms, as well as Deep Learning tech against visual manipulations (Deepfakes and GANs) in real-time. Using this technology, Cyabra is able to outline the scope of a disinformation attack within a day rather than the several days it may take human analysts working manually. This elevated timeline provides valuable early detection; an attack identified in real-time offers an opportunity for counter-action or counter-narratives.


disarm_id: G000166
name: Dagens Nyheter (Faktist)
url: https://www.dn.se/
sector: Media
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Europe
country: Sweden
summary:
  Faktist is the fact-checking project of Dagens Nyheter, a Swedish newspaper and a former member of the International Fact-Checking Network.


disarm_id: G000168
name: Darwin AI
url: https://www.darwinai.com
sector: Technology
region: North America
country: Canada
summary:
  The Darwin AI team has developed an “Automatic Disinformation Assessment” engine. It is a large scale, bidirectional language model that can detect the stance of an article. The project had an accuracy of 90.01%, which surpasses general benchmarks in the industry. The tool was able to determine whether or not a document agrees, disagrees, or takes no stance towards a specific claim.


disarm_id: G000169
name: Data & Society
url: https://datasociety.net/research/media-manipulation/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  Data & Society’s Media Manipulation & Disinformation research examines how different groups use the participatory culture of the internet to turn the strengths of a free society into vulnerabilities, ultimately threatening expressive freedoms and civil rights. Efforts to exploit technical, social, economic, and institutional configurations of media can catalyze social change, sow dissent, and challenge the stability of social institutions.


disarm_id: G000170
name: Data & Society Research Institute: Disinformation Action Lab
url: https://datasociety.net/research/disinformation-action-lab/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  The Disinformation Action Lab (DAL) at Data & Society forges new approaches to address the complex dynamics underpinning the spread of propaganda and disinformation.


disarm_id: G000171
name: Data & Society Research Institute: Media Manipulation Initiative
url: https://datasociety.net/research/media-manipulation/
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  Data & Society's Media Manipulation Initiative looks at how various qualities of media environments and technologies can be exploited to destabilize democratic, social, and economic institutions. The initiative has produced reports on algorithmic accountability, source hacking, weaponized advertising technology, the amplification of extremist content, and alternative facts, among other topics. Its affiliates have also produced a report on deepfakes and the history of audiovisual manipulation.


disarm_id: G000175
name: Debunk EU
url: http://debunk.eu/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Europe
country: Lithuania
summary:
  DEBUNK is a Lithuanian initiative composed of media organizations, strategic communications professionals, researchers, and technologists that have developed an artificial intelligence tool to identify disinformation within 2 minutes.


disarm_id: G000179
name: DeepSeer
url: https://deepseer.ai
sector: Technology
region: Europe
summary:
  DeepSeer provides a platform for social media data analysis and visualization by tracking and mapping online influencers. Their toolset can help identify and track the spread of disinformation on the web. DeepSeer offers measurement tools for the impact of online communications and messaging; enabling assessment of the impact and efficacy of counter disinformation campaigns.


disarm_id: G000180
name: Deeptrace
url: www.Deeptracelabs.com
sector: Technology
region: Global
summary:
  Deeptrace is a company developing technologies to detect and monitor synethic or manipulated media (deepfakes).


disarm_id: G000182
name: Defending Democracy
url: https://defending-democracy.org
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_subject: Democracy
secondary_subject: Civil Liberties (human rights)
region: Global
summary:
  Defending Democracy is an independent, nonpartisan, transatlantic initiative. that works to support and defend basic values and fundamental freedoms and rights. Regarding internal threats, Defending Democracy focuses on defending democracy, rule of law and human rights. Regarding external threats, Defending Democracy focuses on deterring disinformation, cyber-attacks and political warfare.


disarm_id: G000185
name: Demagog.cz
url: https://demagog.cz/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Europe
country: Czech Republic
summary:
  Demagog.cz conducts fact-checking of statements made by politicians and public figures in the Czech Republic. The project is a member of the International Fact-Checking Network.


disarm_id: G000186
name: Demaskuok
url: https://demaskuok.lt/en/main-page/
sector: Technology
region: Europe
country: Lithuania
summary:
  Demaskuok searches the information ecosystem of the Baltic states for disinformation and propaganda, utilizing an AI tool to flag suspected disinformation, and a network of human fact checkers to verify or discredit flagged content.


disarm_id: G000189
name: Detecteur Rumeurs
url: https://www.sciencepresse.qc.ca/detecteur-rumeurs
sector: Media
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: North America
country: Canada
summary:
  Detecteur Rumeurs is the fact-checking arm of the Montreal-based media company Agence Science Presse.


disarm_id: G000190
name: Detector de Mentiras
url: https://lasillavacia.com/
sector: Media
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: South America
country: Colombia
summary:
  Detector de Mentiras (Lie Detector) is a Colombian fact-checking project run by La Silla Vacía and a member of the International Fact-Checking Network.


disarm_id: G000193
name: Digit Eye India
url: https://digiteye.in/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Asia
country: India
summary:
  Digiteye India is an Indian fact-checking organization and a member of the International Fact-Checking Network.


disarm_id: G000194
name: Digital Polarization Initiative
url: https://www.aascu.org/AcademicAffairs/ADP/DigiPo/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Education (public)
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  The Digital Polarization Initiative, or “DigiPo”, is AASCU American Democracy Project's national effort to build student civic, information and web literacy by having students participate in a broad, cross-institutional project to fact-check, annotate, and provide context to the different news stories that show up in Twitter and Facebook feeds.


disarm_id: G000197
name: Disinfo Cloud
url: https://disinfocloud.com
sector: Government
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  Disinfo Cloud is an open source platform funded and supported by the U.S. Department of State’s Global Engagement Center (GEC) and maintained by Park Capital Investment Group LLC (Park Advisors), an implementing partner of the GEC. Disinfo Cloud aims to provide relevant stakeholders an overview of the tools and technologies available to help push back against foreign propaganda and disinformation.


disarm_id: G000198
name: Disinformation Tracker
url: https://www.disinformationtracker.org
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Public Policy
region: Africa
summary:
  Disinformation Tracker is an interactive map that seeks to support human rights defenders in Sub-Saharan Africa by tracking and analysing all laws, policies and other government actions on disinformation across Sub-Saharan Africa.


disarm_id: G000202
name: dpa-Faktencheck
url: https://www.dpa.com/de/unternehmen/faktencheck/
sector: Media
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Europe
country: Germany
summary:
  dpa-Faktencheck is the fact-checking arm of the German news organization Deutsche Presse-Agentur GmbH.


disarm_id: G000203
name: DQ Institute
url: https://www.dqinstitute.org/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Societal Resilience
region: Global
summary:
  With the support of the World Economic Forum, DQ Institute develops global standards for digital intelligence and literacy and develops strategies for education and outreach on these issues. DQI has developed a framework for thinking about digital intelligence and is conducting impact and research assessments to understand the impact of digital technologies and to assess digital intelligence skills around the world.


disarm_id: G000204
name: DROG
url: https://aboutbadnews.com/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Societal Resilience
region: Europe
country: Netherlands
summary:
  DROG is a nonprofit that fosters awareness and builds resilience against disinformation through its Bad News game, workshops, and lectures. Bad News is a social impact game that allows individuals to experience the spread of disinformation and see its impact on society.


disarm_id: G000205
name: Dubawa
url: https://www.dubawa.org/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Africa
country: Nigeria
summary:
  DUBAWA is a Nigerian fact-checking organization and a member of the International Fact-Checking Network.


disarm_id: G000209
name: Duke University: DeWitt Wallace Center for Media & Democracy
url: https://reporterslab.org/
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Fact checking
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  The DeWitt Wallace CMD runs the Duke Reporters' Lab, which conducts research on fact-checking and technological tools to aid fact-checkers. The lab maintains a comprehensive list of fact-checking organizations around the world and runs the Duke Tech & Check Cooperative, which aims to automate fact-checking.


disarm_id: G000210
name: e-Enfance (e-E)
url: https://www.e-enfance.org/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Societal Resilience
region: Europe
country: France
summary:
  e-E offers training on risks and threats in cyberspace and best practices for navigating digital spaces to kids in school, their parents, and professionals in the workforce. The platform also offers a free and confidential hotline and message service on Net Ecoute where the public can call in to receive assistance and counseling in the face of cyber threats.


disarm_id: G000211
name: East STRATCOM Task Force: EUvsDisinfo
url: https://euvsdisinfo.eu/
sector: Government
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
region: Europe
summary:
  The East StratCom Task Force was established to respond to Russian influence operations in Eastern Europe. The task force's flagship project, EUvsDisinfo, monitors and catalogues cases of pro-Russian disinformation and conducts research and analysis on the methods and practices of disinformation and emerging technologies like deepfakes. The task force also trains EU and member state institutions and civil society organizations on disinformation and raises awareness about disinformation in the context of European elections.


disarm_id: G000212
name: Eastern Europe Studies Centre (EESC)
url: http://www.eesc.lt/en/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
primary_subject: Democracy
secondary_subject: Civil Liberties (human rights)
region: Europe
country: Lithuania
summary:
  EESC conducts research and analysis on policy issues affecting Eastern Europe and engages the policy community in trainings and seminars on democratic transition. EESC administers a Democracy and Development Assistance Fund to support individuals and organizations in Eastern Europe working to support democracy. Its experts have written on Russian influence operations in Eastern European countries. EESC is also part of the Center for European Policy Analysis's #DisinfoNet.


disarm_id: G000213
name: EastWest Institute: Global Cooperation in Cyberspace (EWI)
url: https://www.eastwest.ngo/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Public Policy
secondary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
primary_subject: Democracy
secondary_subject: Civil Liberties (human rights)
region: Global
summary:
  EWI is a network of experts that engage in conflict resolution and prevention and provide research and analysis on global challenges to peace and security. EWI’s program on Global Cooperation in Cyberspace "seeks to reduce conflict, crime and other disruptions in cyberspace and promote stability, innovation and inclusion" by convening multistakeholder summits, organizing collaborative working groups, and mobilizing around the adoption of global norms in cyberspace.


disarm_id: G000219
name: El Sabueso
url: https://www.animalpolitico.com/elsabueso-rss
sector: Media
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: South America
country: Mexico
summary:
  El Sabueso is the fact-checking section of Animal Político, a Mexican media organization, and a member of the International Fact-Checking Network.


disarm_id: G000220
name: Election Integrity Partnership
url: https://www.eipartnership.net/
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  The Election Integrity Partnership is a coalition of research entities focused on supporting real-time information exchange between the research community, election officials, government agencies, civil society organizations, and social media platforms.


disarm_id: G000221
name: Electoral Commission (UK)
url: https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/
region: Europe
country: UK
summary:
  The Electoral Commission is an independent body which regulates the funding of political parties, individual party members, and candidates, as well as organisations campaigning in referenda. It is distinct from other regulators for being answerable to Parliament. It also enforces inclusion of imprints of printed election material under the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000.


disarm_id: G000222
name: Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
url: https://www.eff.org/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_subject: Democracy
secondary_subject: Civil Liberties (human rights)
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  EFF is dedicated to advancing digital civil liberties through litigation, policy analysis, activism, and technology development. One of EFF’s issue areas is free speech online, and the organization has produced analysis on the need to balance content moderation strategies aimed at combating misinformation with freedom of expression and on how the United States should think about regulating deepfakes.


disarm_id: G000223
name: Ellinika Hoaxes
url: https://www.ellinikahoaxes.gr/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Europe
country: Greece
summary:
  Ellinika Hoaxes conducts fact-checking of Greek online content and has created a web tool to inform users when they visit sites that are likely to be satirical, conspiratorial, or otherwise false and misleading. The organization is one of Facebook's Third-Party Fact-Checkers and a member of the International Fact-Checking Network.


disarm_id: G000224
name: Emergent
url: http://www.emergent.info/about
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Fact checking
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  Emergent is a real-time rumor tracker and part of a research project with the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University. It focuses on how unverified information and rumor are reported in the media. It aims to develop best practices for debunking misinformation.


disarm_id: G000225
name: Estadão Verifica
url: https://politica.estadao.com.br/blogs/estadao-verifica
sector: Media
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: South America
country: Brazil
summary:
  Estadão Verifica is a Brazilian fact-checking initiative housed at Estadão and a member of the International Fact-Checking Network.


disarm_id: G000227
name: Ethical Journalism Network (EJN)
url: https://ethicaljournalismnetwork.org/supporters/african-media-initiative
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Europe
summary:
  EJN provides training and education to journalists to advance quality media and trust in media institutions. Through its series "Saving the News: Ethics and the fight for the future of journalism," EJN has written on challenges to journalism in an era of declining trust, deepfakes, and journalistic self-regulation.


disarm_id: G000229
name: EU Disinfo Lab
url: https://www.disinfo.eu
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Investigations
region: Europe
summary:
  EU DisinfoLab is an independent non-profit organisation focused on tackling sophisticated disinformation campaigns targeting the EU, its member states, core institutions, and core values.


disarm_id: G000233
name: Eurasian States in Transition Research Center (EAST Center)
url: http://east-center.org/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
region: Europe
summary:
  EAST Center provides research and analysis on influence operations in Central and Eastern European countries and coordinates the Disinformation Resilience Index. Implemented with regional partners, the Disinformation Resilience Index assesses the vulnerability and resilience of fourteen Central and Eastern European countries to foreign (namely, Russian) disinformation campaigns.


disarm_id: G000235
name: European Center of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats (Hybrid CoE)
url: https://www.hybridcoe.fi/
sector: Government
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: Europe
country: Finland
summary:
  The Hybrid CoE is a platform for EU and NATO member states to coordinate and share best practices on defending against hybrid threats, including influence operations. The Hybrid CoE engages in research to better understand and respond to threats, identify vulnerabilities, and build resilience, and it provides training and education for governments.


disarm_id: G000237
name: European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR)
url: https://www.ecfr.eu/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: Europe
summary:
  ECFR focuses on European foreign policy and security issues and provides research and analysis, convenes experts and leaders, and engages with national country governments on policy development. ECFR has published a paper on European strategic sovereignty that covers hybrid threats, and its scholars have offered commentary on countering online radicalization, strategies for fighting fake news, Russian cyber threats (including disinformation), and information manipulation in Europe.


disarm_id: G000239
name: European Digital Rights (EDRi)
url: https://edri.org/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_subject: Democracy
secondary_subject: Civil Liberties (human rights)
region: Europe
summary:
  EDRi is a coalition of European digital human rights groups that seeks to provide public policy research and defend the importance of civil and human rights in the digital environment. To this end, EDRi has addressed influence operations through its work with Civil Liberties Union for Europe and Access Now to produce a joint report on the disinformation debate and policy responses in the European Union.


disarm_id: G000240
name: European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS)
url: https://epthinktank.eu/
sector: Government
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: Europe
country: Europe
summary:
  EPRS is the in-house research arm of the European Parliament. Through the European Parliament Think Tank, EPRS produces reports, briefings, and in-depth analyses meant to drive legislative development. The think tank has produced a number of reports and briefings on disinformation, information warfare, and hybrid threats that examine topics like artificial intelligence's impact on disinformation, the functioning of the rule of law, the EU and the Western Balkans, NATO strategic communications, influence operations in the EU.


disarm_id: G000242
name: European Union: European External Action Service
url: https://eeas.europa.eu/headquarters/headquarters-homepage_en
sector: Government
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Europe
country: Europe
summary:
  The EEAS is the EU's diplomatic service. Countering disinformation is one of its key focus areas. The Commission put forward a European approach for tackling online disinformation in its Communication of April 2018, seeking to promote a more transparent, trustworthy and accountable online environment. The Communication proposed measures to tackle disinformation online, including a self-regulatory EU-wide Code of Practice on Disinformation, signed by large online platforms and the advertising industry, as well as support for an independent network of fact-checkers.


disarm_id: G000243
name: European Values (Kremlin Watch)
url: https://www.kremlinwatch.eu/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Europe
summary:
  European Values runs Kremlin Watch, a program designed to provide monitoring and analysis of Kremlin-backed influence operations. Kremlin Watch provides weekly briefings and other opportunities for information-sharing, policy development advice to national governments, and educational activities for members of the public. European Values is part of the Center for European Policy Analysis's #DisinfoNet.


disarm_id: G000245
name: eWitness Media Inc
url: https://ewitness.commons.gc.cuny.edu/
sector: Technology
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  eWitness provides a digital alibi for images and videos. In today’s digitized world, eWitness helps companies stand by their content, to confidently attest to the time, geolocation and content of the media that appears on their platform . This attestation then eliminates questions against the validity of the media, allowing audiences to focus on the truth and context that surround the media.


disarm_id: G000247
name: Fabula AI
url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabula_AI
sector: Technology
region: Europe
country: UK
summary:
  Fabula AI, was acquired by Twitter in June 2019. The tool evaluates the veracity of an article based on the way it spreads online. This means that it can detect a fake news story within 2-20 hours of publishing.


disarm_id: G000251
name: Facebook Third-Party Fact-Check
url: https://www.facebook.com/help/1952307158131536
sector: Technology
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Global
country: USA
summary:
  Facebook support the use of both technology and human review to remove fake accounts, promote news literacy and disrupt the financial incentives of spammers. In certain countries, they also work with third-party fact-checkers who are certified through the non-partisan International Fact-Checking Network to help identify and review false news.


disarm_id: G000255
name: Fact Checking Chile
url: http://factchecking.cl/
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: South America
country: Chile
summary:
  Fact Checking Chile is a fact-checking initiative based at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile that trains students as fact-checkers and content verifiers.


disarm_id: G000257
name: FactCheck (The Conversation)
url: https://theconversation.com/us
sector: Media
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Global
country: USA
summary:
  The Conversation is an online news platform for academics and researchers to share information and evidence in support of sound policy. The organization has a dedicated fact-checking team dedicated to ensuring information integrity.


disarm_id: G000258
name: FactCheck Georgia
url: https://factcheck.ge/en
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Europe
country: Georgia
summary:
  FactCheck is an online fact-checking platform dedicated to assessing statements made by Georgian politicians and public figures.


disarm_id: G000259
name: FactCheck.kz
url: http://factcheck.kz/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Asia
country: Kazakhstan
summary:
  FactCheck.kz is a fact-checking initiative based in Kazakhstan and a member of the International Fact-Checking Network.


disarm_id: G000260
name: FactChecker.in
url: https://factchecker.in/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Asia
country: India
summary:
  FactChecker.in is an Indian fact-checking initiative run by the Spending & Policy Research Foundation and a member of the International Fact-Checking Network.


disarm_id: G000261
name: Factcheckers
url: http://factcheckers.it/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Europe
country: Italy
summary:
  Factcheckers is an Italian media literacy organization that provides resources and training to high schools and universities around the world on fact-checking and critical evaluation of information.


disarm_id: G000262
name: FactCrescendo
url: https://www.factcrescendo.com/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Asia
country: India
summary:
  FactCrescendo is an Indian fact-checking organization and a member of the International Fact-Checking Network.


disarm_id: G000264
name: Factly
url: https://factly.in/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Asia
country: India
summary:
  Factly is an Indian organization that conducts fact-checking and helps make government data and information accessible to citizens. The organization is part of the International Fact-Checking Network.


disarm_id: G000265
name: Factmata
url: https://factmata.com/
sector: Technology
region: Europe
country: UK
summary:
  Factmata is building an API to identify, classify, and build trust scores for online content to help users rate the trustworthiness of a source. The company also provides moderation services to help flag potentially harmful content for trust and safety teams at major online platforms, and they organize a blacklist to help clients know which platforms or websites to avoid entirely.


disarm_id: G000266
name: Fake it to Make it
url: http://www.fakeittomakeitgame.com
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Societal Resilience
region: Europe
country: Sweden
summary:
  Fake It To Make It gamifies the experience of spreading false news for public consumption, deepening players’ understanding of the process and motives behind false news dissemination.


disarm_id: G000268
name: Fake Off (20 Minutes)
url: https://www.20minutes.fr/
sector: Media
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Europe
country: France
summary:
  Through its Fake Off section, 20 minutes conducts fact-checking, particularly on stories that have gained significant online attention. The organization is one of Facebook's Third-Party Fact-Checkers.


disarm_id: G000269
name: FakeHunter
url: https://fakehunter.pap.pl/en/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Europe
country: Poland
summary:
  FakeHunter is a community-based project for verifying content published on the Internet, launched by the Polish Press Agency (PAP) together with GovTech Polska. It aims to demystify and refute false information related to the SARS-CoV-2 virus.


disarm_id: G000270
name: FakerFact
url: https://www.fakerfact.org/
sector: Technology
region: Global
summary:
  FakerFact has built an artificial intelligence tool called "Walt" to help readers assess the potential biases in news sources, rather than just determining the veracity of the content.


disarm_id: G000272
name: Faktabaari
url: https://faktabaari.fi/in-english/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Education (public)
region: Europe
country: Finland
summary:
  Faktabaari is a Finnish fact-checking organization that provides media literacy resources to EU schools.


disarm_id: G000273
name: Faktisk
url: https://www.faktisk.no/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Education (public)
region: Europe
country: Norway
summary:
  Faktisk is a Norweigan fact-checking organization and a member of the International Fact-Checking Network. They also run a school project called Think that aims to educate young students about critical thinking.


disarm_id: G000274
name: Faktograf
url: https://faktograf.hr/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Europe
country: Croatia
summary:
  Faktograf conducts fact-checking of statements made by politicians and public figures in Croatia. The organization is a member of the International Fact-Checking Network and is one of Facebook's Third-Party Fact-Checkers.


disarm_id: G000276
name: Fandango
url: https://fandango-project.eu/
sector: Government
region: Europe
summary:
  The FANDANGO (Fake news discovery and propagation from big Data Analysis and artificial intelligence operations) project aggregates a large array of media sources so that big data/Machine Learning tools can analyze data to understand patterns within the ecosystem and provide insight to analysts. This technology can support government stakeholders’ mission by facilitating a high-level overview of the disinformation ecosystem, helping to map out and highlight patterns, connections and detection criteria.


disarm_id: G000280
name: Federation of American Scientists
url: https://fas.org/ncov/disinformation-reports/
volunteers: Y
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  Upon recognition of the threat that false information poses to science, the Federation of American Scientists established the Disinformation Research Group (FAS DRG). FAS DRG is composed of scientists, communications experts, data-scientists, and technologists with the intended purpose of detecting, understanding, and effectively exposing disinformation and false narratives surrounding COVID-19. FAS DRG uses multiple methods, technologies, and resources to execute the mission.


disarm_id: G000281
name: FeedReflect
url: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/feedreflect/bigmeipgaifggglelcnpnpbaefimpooc?hl=en-US
sector: Technology
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  FeedReflect is a browser extension for Google Chrome that urges users to consider the quality of the news content they consume on Twitter


disarm_id: G000285
name: Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)
url: https://www.fiia.fi/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: Europe
country: Finland
summary:
  FIIA conducts research and policy analysis on international relations and the European Union. The institute has research programs on the European Union, Eastern European countries and their relationship with Russia, and global security, and it has published a number of reports on information warfare, hybrid threats, disinformation, and related concepts.


disarm_id: G000287
name: First Draft News
url: https://firstdraftnews.org
sector: Media
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Europe
country: UK
summary:
  First Draft is a nonprofit that aims to provide practical and ethical guidance for journalists and publishers in the digital age. The organization coordinates an international fact-checking initiative, trains journalists and fact-checkers in countries with upcoming elections, and conducts and disseminates research on best practices for producers and consumers of digital news. The organization recently published a series of guides on responsible reporting, including one on reporting on deepfakes.


disarm_id: G000288
name: Fiskkit
url: http://fiskkit.com/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  Fiskkit is an online platform where users can assess the credibility of news articles, and the organization has also created a tool designed to help schoolchildren evaluate sources.


disarm_id: G000290
name: Fortis AI
url: https://www.alionscience.com
sector: Technology
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  Fortis is an information operations (IO) platform that takes data from multiple sources and distills it into insights and actionable results. The system aims to alert analysts to adversarial IO, and to provide meaningful analytics, theme and narrative detections, and support for conducting information operations.


disarm_id: G000291
name: FotoForensics
url: http://fotoforensics.com
sector: Technology
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  Fotoforensics displays the underlying forensics data of any image uploaded to their platform, thereby providing a user with visual and other data to help determine whether the image has been altered. Fotoforensics’ underlying tools are integrated with other social media intelligence platforms or by social media platforms themselves to improve content moderation and disinformation identification efforts.


disarm_id: G000292
name: Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS)
url: https://www.feps-europe.eu/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_subject: Democracy
secondary_subject: Civil Liberties (human rights)
region: Europe
country: Belgium
summary:
  FEPS conducts research and advocacy on European democracy and public policy. Its experts have been involved in studies on foreign state propaganda and Russian hybrid warfare. FEPS also collaborates with the Istituto Affari Internazionali on the EU Global Strategy Watch, which tracks developments in EU Global Strategy implementation.


disarm_id: G000295
name: Freedom and Solidarity Foundation (Brīvības un Solidaritātes Fonds) (BSF)
url: http://bsf-latvija.lv/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: Europe
country: Latvia
summary:
  BSF conducts research and advocacy on issues in Latvian public policy and democracy and international peace and security. Its scholars have written on Russian propaganda and work with other organizations to provide opportunities for discussion and collaboration on these issues.


disarm_id: G000297
name: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES)
url: https://www.fes.de/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_subject: Democracy
secondary_subject: Civil Liberties (human rights)
region: Europe
country: Germany
summary:
  FES conducts advocacy and research on issues related to democracy in Germany and across the world. Through its German headquarters and regional offices, FES has addressed media quality and resilience in Africa, disinformation and propaganda in Ukraine, and disinformation in debates about migration within the European Union.


disarm_id: G000299
name: Full Fact
url: https://fullfact.org/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Europe
country: UK
summary:
  Full Fact conducts fact-checking and verification and provides research and training on fact-checking efforts. Full Fact also works with the British government to make government data more available to citizens and to enhance transparency in communication.


disarm_id: G000300
name: Fundação Getúlio Vargas Department of Public Policy Analysis (FGV DAPP)
url: https://observa2018.com.br/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Investigations
region: South America
country: Brazil
summary:
  During the 2018 Brazilian presidential elections, FGV DAPP coordinated the Digital Democracy Room to monitor public debate and potential threats to its integrity. Through this initiative, FGV DAPP provided research and analysis on issues related to misinformation online, bot networks, and foreign influence in public discourse and worked with the Consultative Council on Internet and Elections of the Brazilian Superior Electoral Court. FGV has also joined the Atlantic Council's #ElectionWatch project, which monitored foreign influence in Brazilian, Colombian, and Mexican elections in 2018.


disarm_id: G000301
name: Fundación La Voz Pública
url: https://chequeado.com/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
region: South America
country: Argentina
summary:
  Fundación La Voz Pública is dedicated to strengthening the quality of public debate in Argentina. The organization runs an initiative called Chequeado, which conducts fact-checking and trains fact-checkers and journalists. The organization also creates innovative tools for improving fact-checking and the dissemination of knowledge.


disarm_id: G000302
name: Fundamedios
url: http://54.85.84.127/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_subject: Democracy
secondary_subject: Civil Liberties (human rights)
region: Global
summary:
  Fundamedios is an organization committed to promoting freedom of expression, monitor aggressions and risks faced by journalists, and uphold human rights in Latin America. The organization has experience in monitoring, promoting and protecting freedom of expression and freedom of the press; boosting high-quality reporting; training journalists; carrying out studies and research, and promoting open discussion about journalism, media, and democracy in Ecuador, Bolivia, Argentina, Honduras, Nicaragua, Peru, Venezuela, Uruguay, and the USA. Fundamedios also runs Ecuador Chequea, which is a member of the International Fact-Checking Network.


disarm_id: G000303
name: Future Digital Threats to Democracy (Technology for Global Security)
url: https://www.tech4gs.org/future-digital-threats-to-democracy.html
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_subject: Democracy
secondary_subject: Civil Liberties (human rights)
region: North America
summary:
  Tech4GS is a new type of non-profit: part think tank, part incubator, and purely nonpartisan. As part of a two-year, multi-disciplinary effort to address the ways in which democracies and open societies combat high-tech illiberalism, they have partnered with the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) to launch the joint project “Future Digital Threats to Democracy.”


disarm_id: G000305
name: GeoPoll
url: https://www.geopoll.com/
sector: Technology
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Credible content
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  GeoPoll specializes in global and emerging market research. Their work focuses on two main areas: Monitoring and evaluation; and counter-narratives. Their work on counternarratives aims to counter or expose disinformation through targeted messaging as well as gathering information on fake news and identifying the most effective channels to disseminate counter messages.


disarm_id: G000306
name: George Washington University: Institute for Data, Democracy, and Politics
url: https://iddp.gwu.edu
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Journalism
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  The Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics (IDDP)’s mission is to help the public, journalists, and policymakers understand digital media’s influence on public dialogue and opinion, and to develop solutions to disinformation and other challenges that arise in these spaces.


disarm_id: G000307
name: Georgetown University: Institute for the Study of Diplomacy
url: https://isd.georgetown.edu
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  SD sponsors working groups in collaboration with other elements of the School and the University as well as non-academic groups that bring together high-level, experienced practitioners and eminent scholars to examine emerging international and statecraft issues and recommend policy solutions. In October 2020, ISD released a report titled "The New Weapon of Choice: Technology and Information Operations Today"


disarm_id: G000308
name: Georgetown University: Law School Center on Privacy and Technology (CPT)
url: https://www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-technology-center/
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  CPT studies the impact of government surveillance and commercial data practices on vulnerable communities, provides intellectual and legal foundations for reforms to U.S. consumer privacy laws, and offers technology-intensive courses that prepare students to be leaders in privacy practice, policy making, and advocacy.


disarm_id: G000309
name: German Council on Foreign Relations (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik) (DGAP)
url: https://dgap.org/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: Europe
country: Germany
summary:
  DGAP conducts research and advocacy on issues in German public policy and international relations. The organization's experts have published on Russian propaganda efforts in German politics.


disarm_id: G000310
name: German Marshall Fund: Digital Innovation & Democracy Initiative (GMF)
url: https://www.gmfus.org/digital-innovation-and-democracy-initiative
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Public Policy
secondary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
primary_subject: Democracy
secondary_subject: Civil Liberties (human rights)
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  The German Marshall Fund runs a Digital Innovation & Democracy Initiative, which focuses more broadly on the relationship between technological developments and democratic values.


disarm_id: G000311
name: German Marshall Fund: Mercator European Dialogue (GMF)
url: https://www.gmfus.org/forum/mercator-european-dialogue
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  GMF organizes the Mercator European Dialogue, a network of European members of parliaments that meets to discuss public policy issues, in cooperation with the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs, the Istituto Affari Internazionali, and the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy. Through this program, GMF convened European policymakers in May 2019 to discuss disinformation in European elections.


disarm_id: G000312
name: Get Bad News (DROG)
url: https://getbadnews.com/#intro
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Societal Resilience
region: Europe
country: Netherlands
summary:
  DROG develops programs and courses and conducts research aimed at recognizing disinformation, especially online. In Get Bad News, you take on the role of fake news-monger. Drop all pretense of ethics and choose a path that builds your persona as an unscrupulous media magnate. But keep an eye on your ‘followers’ and ‘credibility’ meters. Your task is to get as many followers as you can while slowly building up fake credibility as a news site. But watch out: you lose if you tell obvious lies or disappoint your supporters!


disarm_id: G000313
name: Giant Language Model Test Room (GLTR)
url: http://gltr.io
sector: Technology
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  The Giant Language Model Test Room offers a forensic analysis of and rates the likelihood that a snippet of text was generated by an automated system or written by a human. GLTR can be used to analyze and detect fake text or as an educational tool to allow the public to check the likelihood of whether a piece of content is human-written or machine-generated and demonstrate the capabilities of AI to generate fake news.


disarm_id: G000316
name: Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace (GCSC)
url: https://cyberstability.org/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: Europe
country: Netherlands
summary:
  GCSC was created with the goal of promoting mutual awareness and understanding among the various communities addressing international cybersecurity. GCSC has pursued research on the development of global norms in cyberspace, defining the public core of the Internet, and protection of electoral infrastructure, among other issues.


disarm_id: G000317
name: Global Council to Build Trust in Media and Fight Misinformation
url: https://www.globalmis.info/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Global
country: World
summary:
  In 2018, the Ethical Journalism Network, European Broadcasting Union, Global Editors Network, Global Forum for Media Development, Online News Association, and World Editor's Forum launched the Global Council to Build Trust in Media and Fight Misinformation. The council's mission is to create a repository of resources and information, connect key stakeholders, identify and implement innovative solutions for newsrooms, and serve as a voice for the media industry in addressing the problem of misinformation and declining trust in newsrooms.


disarm_id: G000318
name: Global Disinformation Index (GDI)
url: https://disinformationindex.org/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
region: Europe
country: UK
summary:
  GDI is developing an artificial intelligence tool to create automated disinformation ratings for news organizations to assess the likelihood that they carry disinformation.


disarm_id: G000319
name: Global Focus
url: http://www.global-focus.eu/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: Europe
country: Romania
summary:
  Global Focus conducts advocacy, research, and analysis around Romanian public policy issues and international peace and security. The organization has launched an international initiative to combat disinformation and influence operations and has convened a seminar in Bucharest to address ways to build resilience and respond to threats. Global Focus is part of the Center for European Policy Analysis's #DisinfoNet.


disarm_id: G000320
name: Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD)
url: https://gfmd.info
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Europe
country: Belgium
summary:
  GFMD is a network of journalism support and media assistance groups committed to advancing free, independent, sustainable and pluralistic news ecosystems. Its Internet Governance Working Group has developed a focus on disinformation and misinformation and focuses its advocacy efforts on how the underlying mechanisms of the digital economy enable the manipulation of online spaces and the proliferation of dis/misinformation.


disarm_id: G000321
name: GLOBSEC Policy Institute
url: https://www.globsec.org/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: Europe
country: Slovakia
summary:
  GLOBSEC conducts research and analysis of issues in public policy and international peace and security. The organization runs a program on strategic communication, through which it publishes analysis on disinformation in Europe and resiliency to influence operations. In 2018, GLOBSEC announced a project on hybrid threats meant to support the development of public policies, monitoring threats, and capacity-building within the Slovakian government.


disarm_id: G000322
name: Go Think Initiative
url: https://www.facebook.com/GoThinkInitiative/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
primary_subject: Democracy
secondary_subject: Civil Liberties (human rights)
region: Europe
country: Czech Republic
summary:
  Go Think Initiative is dedicated to convening European organizations and experts to address changes in the media landscape and cultivate an awareness of the media's role in politics. The organization has held professional media literacy workshops as part of its V4 Think Media project, and it develops games to help citizens understand media, propaganda, and the importance of civic participation.


disarm_id: G000323
name: Good of All
url: http://goodofall.org
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Societal Resilience
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  In collaboration with Kansas State University, Good of All has created a modification to a popular video game, Grand Theft Auto, to explore topics of censorship, protection of democracies, and freedom of speech. This modified version of the game, called Grand Theft Democracy, simulates a fictional nation’s presidential election and requires players to strategize to steer a population into voting for a certain candidate. They have stated that this approach could raise awareness of how disinformation/ propaganda may be employed by adversaries.


disarm_id: G000326
name: Google News Initiative
url: https://newsinitiative.withgoogle.com
sector: Technology
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Global
country: USA
summary:
  The Google News Initiative works with the news industry to help journalism thrive in the digital age.


disarm_id: G000330
name: Graphika
url: https://graphika.com/
sector: Technology
primary_role: Investigations
secondary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  Graphika provides companies with tools to analyze online conversations and detect disinformation campaigns. Its lab division partners with academic institutions to advance its social network analysis, machine learning, and artificial intelligence capabilities.


disarm_id: G000331
name: Ground News
url: https://www.ground.news/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: North America
country: Canada
summary:
  Ground news is a news comparison platform to help the public make sense of stories across the political spectrum. With the rise of mis/disinformation and increasingly polarized news sources, Ground News provides an app that shows side by side comparisons of different sources’ coverage of a story, along with tools for users to analyze and draw their own conclusions.


disarm_id: G000334
name: Grover
url: https://grover.allenai.org/
sector: Technology
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  Grover technology works by generating its own ‘neural fake news’, which is then used to detect similar articles. The Grover model can generate an article against a specific news source, author, and date. Users of the tool also give the articles a headline that the content is then based off of.


disarm_id: G000341
name: Hanns Seidel Stiftung
url: https://www.hss.de/en/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: Europe
country: Germany
summary:
  Hanns Seidel Stiftung conducts research and training and promotes international cooperation in public policy. Its researchers have published analysis on social media and bots, disinformation, and political campaigning.


disarm_id: G000344
name: Harvard University: Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
url: https://cyber.harvard.edu
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
primary_subject: Democracy
secondary_subject: Civil Liberties (human rights)
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University is dedicated to exploring, understanding, and shaping the development of the digitally-networked environment. A diverse, interdisciplinary community of scholars, practitioners, technologists, policy experts, and advocates, it seeks to tackle the most important challenges of the digital age while keeping a focus on tangible real-world impact in the public interest. The faculty conducts research, builds tools and platforms, educates others and facilitates dialogue across and among diverse communities.


disarm_id: G000345
url: https://www.belfercenter.org/
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
primary_subject: Democracy
secondary_subject: Civil Liberties (human rights)
region: North America
country: USA
name:
  Harvard University: Defending Digital Democracy (Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs)

summary:
  Defending Digital Democracy develops solutions to share threat information with technology providers, governments and political organizations. It also provides election administrators, election infrastructure providers, and campaign organizations with practical “playbooks” to improve their cybersecurity. Other activities include develoing strategies for how democracies can credibly deter hostile actors from engaging in cyber and information operations, assessing emerging technologies that may improve the integrity of systems and processes vital to elections and democracy and Convening civic, technology, and media leaders to develop best practices that can shield public discourse from adversarial information operations.


disarm_id: G000346
name: Harvard University: Nieman Foundation for Journalism
url: https://nieman.harvard.edu/
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Journalism
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  The Nieman Foundation for Journalism provides fellowships, publications, and training opportunities around developments in journalism. Through Nieman Lab, the foundation is reporting on how newsrooms are adapting to the digital landscape, including to the threat of disinformation, declining trust in news media, and the proliferation of deepfakes.


disarm_id: G000347
name: Harvard University: Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics and Public Policy
url: https://shorensteincenter.org/
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Fact checking
primary_subject: Democracy
secondary_subject: Civil Liberties (human rights)
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  Harvard University's Technology and Social Change Research Project at the Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics and Public Policy investigates the impact of new media on truth and trust. Its researchers have created the Global Media Manipulation Case Book, and the center also publishes the Misinformation Review to track academic research on the topic. The Shorenstein Center also hosts a Digital Platforms & Democracy project that focuses on the ways in which digital platforms shape public debate and regulatory tools for addressing them.


disarm_id: G000349
name: Henry Jackson Society (HJS)
url: https://henryjacksonsociety.org/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: Europe
country: UK
summary:
  HJS conducts research and analysis on issues related to international peace and security and democracy promotion abroad. HJS personnel have recently addressed issues of Russian disinformation and fake news as threats to Western democracy.


disarm_id: G000351
name: Heritage Foundation
url: https://www.heritage.org
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  The Heritage Foundation provides research and advocacy on U.S. domestic and foreign policy. Scholars at the Heritage Foundation have authored reports and commentary on Russian disinformation, and the organization has hosted events around this issue. Researchers at Heritage have also written on Chinese psychological warfare.


disarm_id: G000352
name: HO@X
url: http://hoax.cz/cze/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Europe
country: Czech Republic
summary:
  HO@X aims to inform the public about digital hoaxes, i.e. widely spread email chain messages that pose some kind of threat to users. HO@X offers a public database that catalogs emails and news stories known to be fraudulent.


disarm_id: G000353
name: Hoaks Atau Fakta?
url: https://www.kompas.com/
sector: Media
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Asia
country: Indonesia
summary:
  Hoaks Atau Fakta? Is the fact-checking initiative of Kompas.com, an Indonesian media platform, and a former member of the International Fact-Checking Network.


disarm_id: G000354
name: Hoover Institution
url: https://www.hoover.org/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  The Hoover Institution "seeks to improve the human condition by advancing ideas that promote economic opportunity and prosperity, while securing and safeguarding peace for America and all mankind." Scholars affiliated with the institution have published on disinformation, content moderation, information operations, and information warfare, both in academic contexts and in informal commentaries.


disarm_id: G000355
name: Hypothes.is
url: https://web.hypothes.is/
sector: Technology
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  The Hypothesis Project is an effort to create an open source software that allows users to annotate online content and fact-check the news.


disarm_id: G000357
name: iAgents Lab
url: https://iagentntu.github.io/
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
region: Asia
country: Taiwan
summary:
  Affiliated with National Taiwan University, Intelligent Agents Laboratory (iAgents Lab) is developing technical applications for improving people's lives and proposing available solutions on social problems. Social media users can use iAgents Lab's algorithm to identify disinformation in real time.


disarm_id: G000359
name: IBM CPD Explorer
url: https://www.ibm.com/watson
sector: Technology
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  The IBM Counter Propaganda and Disinformation (CPD) Explorer retrieves thousands of news articles and social media posts in real-time and analyzes each post to quickly determine instances of disinformation and propaganda and visualizes the results of the analysis and classification within a dynamic cloud-based dashboard.


disarm_id: G000363
name: Iffy Quotient (University of Michigan)
url: https://csmr.umich.edu/platform-health-metrics/
sector: Education/academia
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  The Iffy Quotient is a web-based tool that queries Facebook and Twitter and identifies URLs that are known to be biased or to be frequent reporters of false information. The tool then calculates the percentage of URLs on each site that are "iffy," or known for reporting false or misleading information.


disarm_id: G000369
name: Indiana University: Observatory on Social Media (OSoMe)
url: https://osome.iuni.iu.edu/
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  OSoMe uses social media data to develop tools for visualizing the diffusion of information and misinformation online. OSoMe's goal is that individuals and journalists will use these tools to make their own assessments about the trustworthiness of news sources and to contribute to the growing field of data journalism.   OSoMe also houses Hoaxy, a web-based tool that visualizes the spread of articles online. Hoaxy searches for claims and fact-checking going back to 2016. It tracks the sharing of links to stories from low-credibility sources and independent fact-checking organizations. It also calculates a bot score, which is a measure of the likely level of automation.


disarm_id: G000372
name: Influence Apps
url: https://startinfluence.com/
sector: Technology
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  Influence Apps, Inc. is a strategic communications tool that simplifies complex technologies and techniques to help governments counter bad actors online. Powered by ad tech industry and government communications experts, Influence offers a suite of services that provide government operators tools for real-time sentiment analysis and communication campaign management.


disarm_id: G000375
name: Information Operations Archive
url: https://www.io-archive.org/#/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  The Information Operation Archive hosts publicly available and rigorously attributed datapoints from known Information Operations on social media platforms.


disarm_id: G000376
name: Institute for Public Relations (IPR)
url: https://instituteforpr.org/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  IPR provides research and advocacy around marketing and communications. Its current strategic priorities include restoring reputation in an environment of low trust, and the organization has launched a "Disinformation in Society" report in 2019 with plans to release future editions annually.


disarm_id: G000377
name: Institute for Statecraft (Integrity Initiative)
url: https://www.statecraft.org.uk
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: Europe
country: UK
summary:
  The Institute for Statecraft is an independent, Scottish, charitable body whose work seeks to improve governance and enhance national security. They launched the Integrity Initiative in 2015 to defend democracy against disinformation. Its website was temporarily taken down, pending an investigation into the theft of data from the Institute.


disarm_id: G000378
name: Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD)
url: https://isdglobal.org
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Education (public)
region: Europe
country: UK
summary:
  ISD provides research, education and advocacy, and policy advising on issues concerning far-right radicalization, Islamist extremism, disinformation, and polarization. The Institute also partners with governments, civil society organizations, and private companies to develop policies and best practices for countering violent extremism both on- and off-line, and provide training to governments and citizens for countering violent extremism.


disarm_id: G000379
url: https://www.irsem.fr/
sector: Government
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: Europe
country: France
name:
  Institute for Strategic Research of France (Institut de recherche stratégique de l’École militaire) (IRSEM)

summary:
  IRSEM is the research arm of the French Ministry of the Armed Forces and provides analysis on issues in defense and security. IRSEM, in partnership with the Center for Analysis, Planning and Strategy, has produced a comprehensive report on influence operations and recommendations for governments, civil society organizations, and private actors for mitigating the impact of hostile influence operations.


disarm_id: G000380
name: Institute for the Future: Digital Intelligence Lab
url: http://www.iftf.org/partner-with-iftf/research-labs/digital-intelligence-lab/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  The Institute for the Future’s Digital Intelligence Lab conducts research on disinformation and computational propaganda in the context of American politics. Its publications include The Human Consequences of Computational Propaganda, a series of eight case studies from the 2018 U.S. midterm elections; Digital Propaganda and the News, a series of three reports concerning how disinformation affects journalism; Principles and Policies to Counter Deceptive Digital Politics; State-Sponsored Trolling; and The Biology of Disinformation.


disarm_id: G000381
name: Instituto Igarapé
url: https://igarape.org.br/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: South America
country: Brazil
summary:
  Instituto Igarapé conducts research and analysis on Brazilian and international security and development with a thematic focus on cybersecurity. The organization's experts have written on the role of bots in Brazilian political discourse and disinformation in Latin America more generally. Its researchers also create data visualization tools to help address problems in security and development.


disarm_id: G000382
name: Inter-American Dialogue
url: https://www.thedialogue.org/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Public Policy
primary_subject: Democracy
secondary_subject: Civil Liberties (human rights)
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  The Inter-American Dialogue is dedicated to research and analysis on issues of public policy and international affairs affecting North America, Latin America, and the Caribbean. It conducts research and advocacy on issues related to media, elections, and potential foreign influence through its Peter D. Bell Rule of Law Program.


disarm_id: G000383
name: International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS)
url: https://icds.ee/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
region: Europe
country: Estonia
summary:
  The ICDS research program on Security and Resilience addresses hostile influence strategies and operations and information warfare through research and advocacy. The organization collaborated on the Disinformation Resilience Index to assess Estonia's resilience to influence operations, and it hosted a development cooperation program supported by the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs titled "Resilient Ukraine: civil society support for strengthening national resilience and security in Ukraine."


disarm_id: G000384
name: International Fact Checking Network (IFCN)
url: https://www.poynter.org/ifcn/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Global
country: USA
summary:
  The International Fact-Checking Network is a unit of the Poynter Institute dedicated to bringing together fact-checkers worldwide. The IFCN was launched in September 2015 to support a booming crop of fact-checking initiatives by promoting best practices and exchanges in this field.


disarm_id: G000385
name: International Forum for Democratic Studies (National Endowment for Democracy)
url: https://www.ned.org/international-forum-for-democratic-studies/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
primary_subject: Democracy
secondary_subject: Civil Liberties (human rights)
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  The NED's International Forum for Democratic Studies is a leading center for analysis and discussion of the theory and practice of democracy around the world. The forum's areas of focus include authoritarian influence and the information space.


disarm_id: G000386
name: International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA)
url: https://www.idea.int/
sector: Government
primary_role: Public Policy
primary_subject: Democracy
secondary_subject: Civil Liberties (human rights)
region: Europe
country: Sweden
summary:
  International IDEA conducts research and builds capacity in electoral processes, constitution-building, political participation, and political representation. Through its work on ICT, Elections and Democracy, International IDEA has developed guidance on appropriate uses of social media in electoral contexts and has convened experts to discuss the spread of misinformation about voting registration and practices.


disarm_id: G000387
name: International Republican Institute: Beacon Project (IRI)
url: https://www.iribeaconproject.org/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Public Policy
secondary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
primary_subject: Democracy
secondary_subject: Civil Liberties (human rights)
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  IRI has established the Beacon Project to address state-sponsored influence operations, particularly those emanating from Russia. The project identifies and exposes false or misleading information and helps facilitate a response with its local partners. The organization has also developed a media monitoring tool called >versus< that it shares with local media partners in Central and Eastern Europe. The Beacon Project is part of the Center for European Policy Analysis's #DisinfoNet.


disarm_id: G000392
name: INTERNETLAB: Law and Technology Research Center
url: http://www.internetlab.org.br/en/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_subject: Democracy
secondary_subject: Civil Liberties (human rights)
region: South America
country: Brazil
summary:
  Through its project on Electoral Rights in the Digital Era, INTERNETLAB has convened experts in electoral law and experts on the digital environment to address issues like digital propaganda and the use of bots in elections. INTERNETLAB has also produced a guidebook for citizens navigating technology platforms titled "Surviving on the Networks," and it runs a project titled Você na mira meant to empower citizens in the face of digital microtargeting during elections.


disarm_id: G000393
name: Internews Ukraine
url: https://internews.org/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Global
country: Ukraine
summary:
  Internews Ukraine supports the development of free and independent media in Ukraine through advocacy, legislative efforts, training for journalists, and countering propaganda and misinformation online. The organization has created a communication strategy for advocating Ukraine's integration in the European Union and countering propaganda created by pro-Russian forces.


disarm_id: G000394
name: InVid
url: https://www.invid-project.eu/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Europe
summary:
  InVid is an EU-funded project dedicated to building a platform for assessing the reliability and authenticity of online video content.


disarm_id: G000395
name: IP2 Location
url: https://ip2location.com
sector: Technology
region: Asia
summary:
  P2 Location’s software identifies the geolocation of IP addresses, as well as whether the IP address is an anonymous proxy, VPN, or TOR IP address. It retrieves geolocation information with no explicit permission required from users.


disarm_id: G000396
name: IREX
url: https://www.irex.org/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
primary_subject: Democracy
secondary_subject: Civil Liberties (human rights)
region: Global
country: USA
summary:
  IREX works globally to promote inclusive and democratic societies by creating informed, educated, and civically active citizenries. IREX has partner organizations located around the world to aid in developing capacity for independent media. IREX has implemented a Learn to Discern program for educating citizens in Ukraine about the threat of manipulative information and building digital literacy skills.


disarm_id: G000402
name: Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI)
url: https://www.iai.it/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: Europe
country: Italy
summary:
  IAI provides research and analysis on issues in Italian public policy, international peace and security, and European integration. The organization's experts have published analysis on social media, truth, and European politics. IAI works with the German Marshall Fund to organize the Mercator European Dialogue, a network of members of European parliaments that meets to discuss public policy issues. Through the program, the German Marshall Fund and its partners convened policymakers to discuss disinformation and fake news in European elections in May 2019.


disarm_id: G000403
name: Italian Postal and Communications Police Service (Polizia Postale e delle Comunicazioni)
url: https://www.commissariatodips.it/
sector: Government
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Europe
country: Italy
summary:
  In advance of elections in 2018, the Italian government established an online platform where citizens can report false or misleading information and request verification. The platform is managed by the Postal and Communications Police Service, which is responsible for information and communications technology-related crimes.


disarm_id: G000404
name: İzlemedeyiz
url: http://izlemedeyiz.org/en/#intro
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Public Policy
secondary_role: Fact checking
primary_subject: Democracy
secondary_subject: Civil Liberties (human rights)
region: Asia
country: Turkey
summary:
  İzlemedeyiz is dedicated to increasing transparency and accountability in the Turkish government through providing information for private sector entities about government activities. The organization also runs Doğruluk Payı, which conducts fact-checking.


disarm_id: G000405
name: Jigsaw
url: https://jigsaw.google.com/
sector: Technology
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  Jigsaw employs scientists, engineers, researchers, designers, and policy experts to create online tools and platforms dedicated to addressing repressive censorship, online harassment, violent extremism, and injustice and corruption. Jigsaw has contributed data and conducted research on the topic of disinformation, deepfakes, and fake news. They have also partnered with the Duke Reporters' Lab to develop the "Share the Facts" widget to help Internet users share fact-checked information.


disarm_id: G000406
name: Jordanian Media Credibility Monitor (AKEED)
url: https://akeed.jo/en
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Asia
country: Jordan
summary:
  The Jordanian Media Credibility Monitor is a project of the Jordan Media Institute that aims to support the development of quality media in Jordan.


disarm_id: G000408
name: Keyhole
url: https://keyhole.co/
sector: Technology
region: North America
country: Canada
summary:
  Keyhole provides a platform of tools to measure the impact of social campaigns. The company tracks, measures, and reports on the success of social campaigns. The company offers a real-time dashboard of metrics and analysis points. The solution focuses on hashtag and influencer data, and measures metrics such as reach, impressions, engagement and followers. Using this tool, users can set goals and calculate the impact and success of a social campaign on Twitter, Youtube, Instagram or Facebook.


disarm_id: G000409
name: Kharon
url: https://www.kharon.com
sector: Technology
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  Kharon is a research and analytics firm that generates insight about sanctions-related risk intelligence. Kharon works with financial services firms and other multinational institutions. Kharon utilizes a proprietary technology and a staff of expert analysts to identify and map connections between individuals and entities that have been sanctioned by different governments and international bodies and their associates.


disarm_id: G000414
name: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung
url: https://www.kas.de/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: Europe
country: Germany
summary:
  Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung is a political foundation that provides research and advocacy on German public policy issues. Its researchers have written on influence operations in Europe, fact-checking in Africa, and extremism online, among other topics related to disinformation and foreign interference.


disarm_id: G000415
name: Kosh Archive (Tattle)
url: https://tattle.co.in/products/kosh
sector: Technology
region: Asia
country: India
summary:
  Main archive that contains content scraped from all the different sources- the Tattle Jod telegram bot, Fact-checking sites, social media and chat apps.


disarm_id: G000418
name: Krik
url: https://www.krik.rs/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Europe
country: Serbia
summary:
  OCCRP's Crime and Corruption Reporting Network (KRIK) is dedicated to supporting Serbian investigative journalism. Comprised of both non-profit journalism centers and for-profit media organizations in the Balkans and Eastern Europe, OCCRP aims to use investigative reporting and fact-checking to expose and deter corruption.


disarm_id: G000419
name: Krypometri
url: https://kallxo.com/krypometer/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Europe
country: Kosovo
summary:
  Krypometri is the fact-checking arm of Kallxo.com, an online platform edicated to reporting on corruption, organized crime, fraud, and abuse in Kosovo. The organization is a member of the International Fact-Checking Network.


disarm_id: G000421
name: La Voce
url: https://www.lavoce.info/
sector: Media
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Europe
country: Italy
summary:
  La Voce is an Italian online news platform and a former member of the International Fact-Checking Network.


disarm_id: G000424
name: Le Monde (Les Décodeurs)
url: https://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/
sector: Media
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Europe
country: France
summary:
  Le Monde's Les Décodeurs is the French newspaper's fact-checking platform and is one of Facebook's Third-Party Fact-Checkers.


disarm_id: G000425
name: Lead Stories
url: https://leadstories.com/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Global
country: USA
summary:
  Lead Stories is an online platform that tracks trending news stories to identify and debunk false or misleading information as quickly as possible. The organization is one of Facebook's Third-Party Fact Checkers.


disarm_id: G000427
name: Les Observateurs (France 24)
url: https://observers.france24.com/en/
sector: Media
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Europe
country: France
summary:
  Les Observateurs is a project of France 24 that is dedicated to empowering citizen journalists by verifying and publishing eyewitness accounts of news stories. The platform is part of the International Fact-Checking Network and is one of Facebook's Third-Party Fact-Checkers.


disarm_id: G000429
name: Libération (Check News)
url: https://www.liberation.fr/desintox,99721
sector: Media
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Europe
country: France
summary:
  Libération's CheckNews is the current fact-checking platform for the French newspaper and is one of Facebook's Third-Party Fact-Checkers.


disarm_id: G000430
name: Lie Detectors
url: https://lie-detectors.org
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Societal Resilience
region: Europe
country: Belgium
summary:
  Lie Detectors' news literacy project aims to turn schoolchildren in Europe aged 10-15 into powerful lie detectors and critical thinkers, empowering them to understand news media, make informed choices and resist peer pressure as they assemble their worldview.


disarm_id: G000431
name: Linterna Verde
url: https://linternaverde.co/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
primary_subject: Democracy
secondary_subject: Civil Liberties (human rights)
region: South America
country: Colombia
summary:
  Linterna Verde provides research and analysis on issues concerning information and debate online, private and public regulation of the online information space, and civil rights and liberties. One of its ongoing projects concerns the dynamics of political messaging on WhatsApp.


disarm_id: G000432
name: Logically
url: https://www.logically.ai/
sector: Technology
region: Global
country: UK
summary:
  Logically builds products and services to meet modern challenges in combating misinformation, disinformation, propaganda campaigns and identifying problematic content in the digital domain space.


disarm_id: G000435
name: London School of Economics: Arena (Institute of Global Affairs)
url: http://www.lse.ac.uk/iga/arena
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
primary_subject: Democracy
secondary_subject: Civil Liberties (human rights)
region: Europe
country: UK
summary:
  Housed at the Institute of Global Affairs, Arena is a programme dedicated to overcoming the challenges of disinformation. The aim of the Arena programme is to use high-quality research, analysis and evaluation to create effective best practices that can then be disseminated to journalists, public diplomacy teams and civic groups.


disarm_id: G000436
name: London School of Economics: Department of Media and Communications
url: http://www.lse.ac.uk/media-and-communications/truth-trust-and-technology-commission
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Europe
country: UK
summary:
  The LSE Truth, Trust and Technology (T3) Commission deals with the crisis in public information. They work with experts, practitioners and the public to identify structural causes of media misinformation and set out a new framework for strategic policy in a report. T3 is funded by the LSE Knowledge Exchange & Impact Fund.


disarm_id: G000441
name: Lund University: Department of Strategic Communication (Lunds Universitet Strategisk Kommunikation)
url: https://www.isk.lu.se/en/research/research-projects/countering-disinformation-protecting-elections
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: Europe
country: Sweden
summary:
  Lund University's Department of Strategic Communication has been commissioned by more than a dozen organizations including the UK Cabinet Office and Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB), EU-NATO Hybrid Centre of Excellence and NATO Strategic Communication Centre of Excellence to produce hands-on guidance, processes and training to counter influence operations.


disarm_id: G000442
name: Mafindo
url: https://www.mafindo.or.id/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Asia
country: Indonesia
summary:
  Mafindo is an organization dedicated to fact-checking and exposing hoaxes in Indonesian media and one of Facebook's Third-Party Fact-Checkers.


disarm_id: G000443
name: Main Street One
url: https://mainstreet.one/
sector: Technology
region: Global
country: USA
summary:
  Main Street One is a technology company dedicated to identifying online narratives and producing countermessaging on behalf of clients.


disarm_id: G000444
name: Maldito Bulo
url: https://maldita.es/malditobulo/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Europe
country: Spain
summary:
  Maldito Bulo conducts fact-checking of stories circulating online and creates web-based tools to help news consumers identify false or misleading information. Maldito Bulo is one of Facebook's Third-Party Fact-Checkers and a member of the International Fact-Checking Network. The organization also runs training programs at universities and other public and private institutions.


disarm_id: G000445
name: Manipulátoři
url: https://manipulatori.cz/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Europe
country: Czech Republic
summary:
  Manipulátoři provides perspective and insights on politics and strategic communications at a time of rampant disinformation, misinformation, and fake news.


disarm_id: G000447
name: Marvelous AI
url: https://marvelous.ai/
sector: Technology
region: Global
country: USA
summary:
  Marvelous AI is a technology company that is dedicated to identifying and analyzing online narratives and their imapct on public discourse.


disarm_id: G000448
name: Masaryk University: Department of Political Science (Masarykova Univerzita Katedra Politologie)
url: https://www.fakescape.cz/en
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Societal Resilience
region: Europe
country: Czech Republic
summary:
  Masaryk University developed Fakescape, an escape game for high school students designed to teach media literacy and critical thinking skills.


disarm_id: G000451
name: Media Legal Defence Initiative (MLDI)
url: https://www.mediadefence.org/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Europe
country: UK
summary:
  MLDI is an organization dedicated to providing legal defense in support of freedom of the press around the world. Alongside the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and the International Fact-Checking Network, MLDI helped set up the Fact-checkers Legal Support Initiative. MLDI also partners with organizations around the world dedicating to advancing legal protection for journalists and developing independent media organizations.


disarm_id: G000452
name: Media Literacy for Citizenship (EAVI)
url: https://eavi.eu/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Public Policy
secondary_role: Education (public)
region: Europe
country: Belgium
summary:
  EAVI is an organization that conducts research and advocacy on media literacy in Europe. EAVI has conducted research to define and measure media literacy in Europe and provided policy recommendations for advancing media literacy in the bloc, and the organization creates curriculum and online tools for educating young people about media literacy.


disarm_id: G000454
name: Media Monitoring Africa (MMA)
url: https://mediamonitoringafrica.org/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Africa
country: South Africa
summary:
  MMA promotes access to media and media freedom and conducts monitoring and evaluation of media quality in South Africa, especially during elections. The organization also provides monitoring assistance to other organizations, media literacy training, training for journalists covering human rights issues, and online tools for citizens seeking to improve media literacy and strengthen journalistic accountability.


disarm_id: G000457
name: MediaBias Fact Check
url: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com
sector: Media
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  Media Bias/Fact Check (MBFC), founded in 2015, is an independent online media outlet. MBFC is dedicated to educating the public on media bias and deceptive news practices.


disarm_id: G000458
name: MediaLab (Agence France Presse)
url: https://www.afp.com/en/agency/medialab
sector: Media
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Europe
country: France
summary:
  AFP is a leading global news agency providing fast, comprehensive and verified coverage of the events shaping our world and of the issues affecting our daily lives. Drawing from an unparalleled news gathering network across 151 countries, AFP is also a world leader in digital verification. With 2,400 staff representing 100 different nationalities, AFP covers the world in six languages, with a unique quality of multimedia storytelling spanning video, text, photos and graphics.


disarm_id: G000462
name: Meedan.org
url: https://meedan.com/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Global
country: USA
summary:
  Meedan.org is a nonprofit that creates tools for journalists and translators. One of its projects, Check, has focused on providing online tools and training resources for journalists to combat the spread of false or misleading information. The organization also runs a Credibility Coalition, aimed at creating a holistic framework for assessing credibility in the media context, and a Content Moderation Project, which addresses technical and theoretical issues related to the practice of content moderation online.


disarm_id: G000464
name: Memo 98
url: http://memo98.sk/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Europe
country: Slovakia
summary:
  MEMO 98 is an organization that monitors media, largely during elections, and provides monitoring reports and recommendations on media legislation to international institutions and civil society groups. The organization also provides training and capacity-building support to national organizations conducting media evaluation. Memo 98 works with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe on their international election observation efforts.


disarm_id: G000465
name: Mention
url: https://mention.com/en/
sector: Technology
region: Europe
summary:
  Mention is a social media and web monitoring tool offering real-time alerts for keywords and allowing users to monitor millions of sources.
   The company monitors popular sites such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Pinterest in order to alert users when keywords are used.


disarm_id: G000466
name: MentionMapp Analytics
url: https://mentionmapp.com/
sector: Technology
region: North America
country: Canada
summary:
  Mentionmapp technology enables visualization of the spread of Twitter trends, including identification of influencers. They also offer services to aid analysis of bot activity.


disarm_id: G000468
name: Metro (Viralgranskaren)
url: https://www.metro.se/viralgranskaren
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Europe
country: Sweden
summary:
  Through its Viralgranskaren (Viral Reviewer), Metro conducts fact-checking and organizes a list of sites that produce satirical news that is sometimes mistaken for true information or that produce deliberately false and misleading information. The organization is part of the International Fact-Checking Network.


disarm_id: G000470
name: MGP Fact Check
url: http://www.mygopen.com
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Asia
country: Taiwan
summary:
  MGP Fact Check is an independent organization based in Hsinchu, Taiwan. Since 2015, they have been offering free fact checking services to users of Line, a popular messaging app in Taiwan.


disarm_id: G000472
name: Microsoft: Defending Democracy Program
url: https://news.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/topic/defending-democracy-program/
sector: Technology
primary_subject: Democracy
secondary_subject: Civil Liberties (human rights)
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  The Defending Democracy Program will work with stakeholders including governments, non-government organizations, academics and industry all in democratic countries globally to protect campaigns from hacking; increase political advertising transparency online; explore technological solutions to preserve and protect electoral processes; and defend against disinformation campaigns.


disarm_id: G000473
name: Midstream Technology
url: http://midstream.us
sector: Technology
primary_role: Investigations
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  Midstream Technology's "Aletheia" algorithm is a method for identifying specific patterns and behaviors exhibited by networks of accounts in social media. The Aletheia platform can identify global behaviors indicative of astroturf campaigns. Then, using metadata and account posting patterns, identify which accounts are malicious bots gaming recommendation algorithms and which are genuine human run accounts. It can also pick up on rhetorical cues common in disinformation, such as sensationalization of information or pick up on behaviors from the network pushing the disinformation.


disarm_id: G000475
name: Mind Over Media
url: https://propaganda.mediaeducationlab.com/node/1
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Societal Resilience
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  Mind Over Media: Analyzing Contemporary Propaganda is an online crowdsourced learning platform with over 3,500 examples of current propaganda from more than 40 countries, along with a suite of 9 lesson plans suitable for use in high school, college and with adult learners. The program is fully translated into Polish, Romanian, Croatian, Finnish, Swedish, French and Dutch.


disarm_id: G000479
name: MIT: Center for Civic Media
url: https://civic.mit.edu
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
primary_subject: Democracy
secondary_subject: Civil Liberties (human rights)
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  Working at the intersection of participatory media and civic engagement, the Center for Civic Media's mission is to design, create, deploy, and assess tools and processes that support and foster civic participation and the flow of information between and within communities.


disarm_id: G000480
name: MIT: Ethics & Governance of Artificial Intelligence Initiative (Media Lab)
url: https://aiethicsinitiative.org
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
primary_subject: Democracy
secondary_subject: Civil Liberties (human rights)
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  The MIT Media Lab runs the Ethics & Governance of Artificial Intelligence Initiative in partnership with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. The initiative has addressed artificial intelligence's impact on the quality of media and the ethical, political, and technical questions associated with its impact. Through the Ethics & Governance of AI Initiative, MIT has provided financial support to projects at the intersection of media and technology, including a project to develop better tools for detecting deepfakes and a project for detecting misinformation on WhatsApp.


disarm_id: G000481
name: MIT: Laboratory for Social Machines (Media Lab)
url: https://www.media.mit.edu/groups/social-machines/overview/
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  The MIT Media Lab's Laboratory for Social Machines conducts research on human networks, natural language processing, network science, and machine learning.


disarm_id: G000482
name: MIT: Viral Communications Research Group (Media Lab)
url: https://www.media.mit.edu/
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  The Viral Communication Research Group invents personal devices that contain your data and the rules for its use, and conducts video analysis based on machine learning to understand the subcarriers of information in the news and bottom-up civic mobilization tools that are locally and culturally responsive.


disarm_id: G000490
name: Myth Detector (Media Development Foundation) (MDF)
url: http://www.mdfgeorgia.ge/eng/home
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Education (public)
region: Europe
country: Georgia
summary:
  Through its Myth Detector website, MDF conducts fact-checking and provides quality information and teaching and training opportunities for Georgian youth. Through the Media & Information Literacy Lab, MDF provides media literacy games, curriculum, and training in support of anti-propaganda efforts. MDF also partners with European Values to build civil society capacity to respond to Kremlin-backed disinformation.


disarm_id: G000491
name: Mythos Labs
url: http://www.mythoslabs.org/
sector: Technology
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  Mythos Labs provides a tool called MIDAC to detect disinformation campaigns on social media, measure their impact, and then auto-generate counter narratives.


disarm_id: G000493
name: National Autonomous University of Mexico: Civic Innovation Lab (UNAM)
url: https://unamcivic.com/index.html
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
primary_subject: Democracy
secondary_subject: Civil Liberties (human rights)
region: North America
country: Mexico
summary:
  The UNAM Civic Innovation Lab is a research laboratory at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) that studies real world problems involving citizens, governments, and NGOs; and uses human centered design to create novel computational systems that address these problems to construct improved societies. Their civic tech research involves the areas of crowdsourcing, disinformation, and machine learning.


disarm_id: G000494
name: National Chengchi University: Election Study Center
url: https://esc.nccu.edu.tw/eng/PageFront
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
primary_subject: Democracy
secondary_subject: Civil Liberties (human rights)
region: Asia
country: Taiwan
summary:
  Elections are central to democratic politics. They offer citizens an opportunity to choose representatives and government officials, and provide governments with a legitimate basis for exercising power. The quality of elections has a direct effect on the nature of democracy itself. In recent years, Taiwan's political system has undergone a dramatic transition and has nearly completed the transition from authoritarianism to consolidated democracy. Since elections have played and will continue to play a key role in this process of democratization, it is essential to undertake continuous and systematic research into election practices in order to both strengthen the foundations of democracy and also to raise the quality of elections.


disarm_id: G000495
name: National Democratic Institute (NDI)
url: https://www.ndi.org/infotegrity
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  NDI's INFO/tegrity project provides research on disinformation vulnerability and resilience and emerging technologies, monitors disinformation and computational propaganda in elections, assists social media platforms and tech platforms, shares tools to detect and disrupt disinformation, and rebuilds trust in institutions and processes. In support of these efforts, NDI organized a Digital Disinformation Forum with academic and think tank partners in 2018. NDI has also released guidance for its elections programs concerning disinformation and electoral integrity and an awareness-raising document for staff and local partners.


disarm_id: G000497
name: NATO: Strategic Communications Center of Excellence (StratCom COE)
url: https://stratcomcoe.org/
sector: Government
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: Europe
country: Europe
summary:
  A part of NATO, the StratCom COE provides analysis, practical support, and conducts research and experimentation in communication to support member countries and NATO’s overall aims. This includes, for example, recent reports on disinformation in Sweden, measurement of the Russian Internet Research Agency’s impact in online conversations, strategic communication in the context of elections, a comprehensive study on hybrid threats, and the black market for social media manipulation, among other publications.


disarm_id: G000499
name: New America: Open Technology Institute
url: https://www.newamerica.org/oti/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  Through its Open Technology Institute, New America created the Ranking Digital Rights Project, which creates a corporate accountability index to assess technology companies and their commitments to human rights online, including freedom of expression.


disarm_id: G000500
name: New America: Public Interest Technology Initiative
url: https://www.newamerica.org/public-interest-technology/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Public Policy
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  New America's Public Interest Technology Initiative published a policy paper in 2018 on digital advertising and its relationship to precision propaganda.


disarm_id: G000502
name: New Eastern Europe (NEE)
url: http://neweasterneurope.eu/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: Europe
summary:
  NEE is interested in political and policy issues in Eastern European states that were at one time a part of the Soviet Union or a member of the Eastern Bloc. While not a formal scholarly journal, the periodical makes use of journalistic style to provide and explore expert commentary from experts, scholars, historians, and politicians in pertinent areas. NEE authors have increasingly written on the topic of disinformation.


disarm_id: G000504
name: New York Times: News Provenance Project
url: https://www.newsprovenanceproject.com/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Global
country: USA
summary:
  The News Provenance Project is dedicated to researching and developing ways to ensure that the context of visual content travels with that content.


disarm_id: G000506
name: New York University: Center for Social Media and Politics (CSMaP)
url: https://csmapnyu.org/
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
primary_subject: Democracy
secondary_subject: Civil Liberties (human rights)
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  CSMaP studies the impact of social media on politics and develops new methods and technology tools to analyze the impact of social media on democracy. The organization houses the Social Media and Political Participation Lab and provides open-source data and tools for other researchers.


disarm_id: G000507
name: New York University: The 100 Questions (GovLab)
url: https://the100questions.org/about.html
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
primary_subject: Democracy
secondary_subject: Civil Liberties (human rights)
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  The 100 Questions Initiative seeks to map the world’s 100 most pressing, high-impact questions that could be answered if relevant datasets were leveraged in a responsible manner. The initiative's fifth domain focuses on identifying the top 10 questions related to disinformation:
   1) understanding the impact of disinformation on society,
   2) understanding disinformation as a social (engineering) phenomenon,
   3) improving information quality online and offline and
   4) evaluating the efficacy of different types of interventions against it.


disarm_id: G000511
name: News Lab (Google News Initiative)
url: https://newsinitiative.withgoogle.com/intl/en_gb/google-news-lab/
sector: Technology
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  Through the News Lab, the Google News Initiative is developing partnerships and providing training on contemporary issues in journalism. Trust and misinformation are News Lab priorities, and the organization provides support for initiatives like the Trust Project, First Draft, and Cross Check. Through the Digital News Innovation Fund, the Google News Initiative is providing support for European projects tackling challenges in the digital news environment, including a project called Digger, which aims to create audio forensic technologies that can assist in detecting deepfakes. Google is also integrating tagging strategies into Google News articles in some countries and modifying its algorithm to punish hate speech and disinformation in search results.


disarm_id: G000512
name: News Literacy Project (NLP)
url: https://newslit.org/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Education (public)
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  NLP creates digital media literacy curriculum for American middle and high school students. NLP also provides professional development programming for educators and journalists aimed at improving news literacy education.


disarm_id: G000514
name: NewsCheck
url: https://www.newscheck.com/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Global
country: USA
summary:
  NewsCheck is an organization analyzing existing journalistic ethics codes and building an artificial intelligence-enhanced system for reviewing and scoring online content.


disarm_id: G000516
name: NewsGuard
url: https://www.newsguardtech.com/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  Based on the input of journalists and editors, NewsGuard has developed a rating system for assessing the trustworthiness of websites based on nine journalistic criteria. The company also provides a "nutrition label," detailing how websites perform against the criteria. NewsGuard's website also includes free news literacy resources for educators, libraries, and parents.


disarm_id: G000517
name: NewsMobile Fact Checker
url: http://newsmobile.in/articles/category/nm-fact-checker/
sector: Media
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Asia
country: India
summary:
  Fact Checker is the fact-checking arm of NewsMobile, an Indian media organization. Fact Checker is a member of the International Fact-Checking Network and one of Facebook's Third-Party Fact Checkers.


disarm_id: G000520
name: NewsWhip
url: https://www.newswhip.com/
sector: Technology
region: Global
country: Ireland
summary:
  NewsWhip is a social media engagement tracking firm that tracks content by amount and location of user engagement, as well as audience interests and changes in interest over time. NewsWhip specializes in monitoring real-time information about the spread of information and the actors behind it, and can help NGOs, news organizations, universities, and other civil society members to address the challenges of misinformation.


disarm_id: G000522
name: Newtral para Atresmedia Televisión
url: https://www.lasexta.com/programas/el-objetivo/
sector: Media
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Europe
country: Spain
summary:
  Newtral conducts fact-checking of statements made by politicians and public figures in Spain. The organization is one Facebook's Third-Party Fact-Checkers. El Objetivo de Ana Pastor is a fact checking and data journalism driven television program broadcast on laSexta every Sunday evening.


disarm_id: G000524
name: Nisos
url: https://www.nisos.com
sector: Technology
primary_role: Investigations
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  Nisos offers managed intelligence solutions to help companies mitigate advanced threat actors, stop platform abuse, counter disinformation, mitigate insider threats and conduct due diligence.


disarm_id: G000526
name: Nobl Media
url: https://www.wearenobl.com/
sector: Technology
region: Global
country: USA
summary:
  Formerly Trustium. Trustium is a software-as-a-service company that uses artificial intelligence tools to help advertisers ensure that their ads are placed on trustworthy, credible sites.


disarm_id: G000528
name: Northeastern University: Network Science Institute (NetSI)
url: https://www.networkscienceinstitute.org/
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  NetSI is dedicated to measuring and modeling network properties to better understand physical, social, informational, and technical systems. NetSI received a grant to launch the Center for an Informed Society, which will apply computational social science methods to study Google and Twitter's impact on the online information landscape.


disarm_id: G000529
name: Northern Ireland Foundation: FactCheckNI (NIF)
url: https://factcheckni.org/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Europe
country: UK
summary:
  NIF runs FactCheck Northern Ireland (FactCheckNI), an online platform dedicated to assessing statements made by Irish politicians and public figures. FactCheckNI provides interactive training on fact-checking for citizens. FactCheckNI is also part of Co-inform, EU's consortium of experts working to address digital literacy in the European Union.


disarm_id: G000530
name: Novetta
url: https://www.novetta.com/
sector: Technology
primary_role: Investigations
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  Novetta offer cyber analytics to preemptively identify threats, entity analytics to identify bad actors/ influencers, and mission and media analytics to monitor social media and news to identify key patterns and issues in the operating environment. Analysts can use Novetta’s analytics to uncover insights into the dissemination of disinformation on social media platforms and messaging forums. Social platforms can use Novetta’s analytics to identify suspicious posts and accounts associated with disinformation to support their content moderation efforts.


disarm_id: G000532
name: NU.nl
url: https://www.nu.nl/nucheckt
sector: Media
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Europe
country: Netherlands
summary:
  Nu.nl conducts fact-checking of online content through its NUCheckt page. The organization is one of Facebook's Third-Party Fact-Checkers.


disarm_id: G000535
name: NYC: Media Lab
url: https://nycmedialab.org/
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  NYC Media Lab is a consortium of private companies and New York universities dedicated to advancing innovation in media and technology. NYC Media Lab runs an annual Machines + Media event and convenes a Machines + Media AI Working Group to address issues like automated content moderation, deepfakes, privacy, and AI-driven publishing and distribution.


disarm_id: G000539
name: Observador
url: https://observador.pt/
sector: Media
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Europe
country: Portugal
summary:
  Observador is an online news platform that conducts fact-checking and is one of Facebook's Third-Party Fact-Checkers.


disarm_id: G000540
name: OFCOM
url: https://www.ofcom.org.uk
region: Europe
country: UK
summary:
  Ofcom oversees telecommunications, post, broadcast TV and radio (including the BBC’s output), has duties in relation to broadcast advertising and regulates certain online video services. It has a statutory duty to promote media literacy, under which it carries out research into people’s use of online services such as social media and video sharing platforms. In February 2020 the Government announced it was “minded” to grant new powers to Ofcom as the regulator for online harms.


disarm_id: G000541
name: Ojo Bionico
url: https://ojo-publico.com/ojobionico
sector: Media
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: South America
country: Peru
summary:
  Ojo Biónico is the fact-checking section of Ojo Público, a Peruvian investigative journalism outfit.


disarm_id: G000542
name: Omelas
url: https://www.omelas.io/
sector: Technology
primary_role: Countermeasures/response
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  Omelas works to prevent violence, terrorism recruitment, and the spread of online propaganda by studying behavioral patterns, applying analytics and strategy, and identifying instances and entities who generate content. Omelas is working to map the online information environment as it pertains to disinformation and propaganda.


disarm_id: G000543
name: Online News Association (ONA)
url: https://journalists.org/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  ONA is currently the largest digital journalism association in the world. They seek to support high quality digital journalism through developing best practices for incorporating technology into journalism and reporting, collecting metrics, and developing new revenue models. Recently, ONA has made efforts to grow their efforts to tackle misinformation and fake news. Its 2019 conference featured a session on "Preparing for the Future of Deepfakes" alongside other discussions on local news, misinformation, and digital journalism.


disarm_id: G000545
name: Open Information Partnership
url: https://www.openinformationpartnership.org
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Europe
summary:
  The Open Information Partnership is a network of organisations and individuals across Europe working in open, independent, fact-based reporting.


disarm_id: G000554
name: Our.News
url: https://our.news/
sector: Technology
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Global
country: USA
summary:
  Our.News has created a browser extension that provides users with "nutrition labels" for news consumption to help them better assess the quality of information.


disarm_id: G000555
name: Oxford University: Computational Propaganda Project (Internet Institute)
url: https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
region: Europe
country: UK
summary:
  The Computational Propaganda Project conducts research on algorithms, bots, and social media applications and their impacts on the spread of propaganda, the manipulation of conversations online, trust in media institutions, and political campaigns and elections.


disarm_id: G000557
name: Oxford University: Junk News Aggregator
url: https://newsaggregator.oii.ox.ac.uk
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Europe
country: UK
summary:
  The Junk News Aggregator compiles posts by news outlets that have failed to meet a set of criteria, and are thus not deemed to be trustworthy by the technology. It provides users with an overview of such information trending on Facebook and related engagement statistics.


disarm_id: G000558
name: Oxford University: Oxford Internet Institute
url: https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
region: Europe
country: UK
summary:
  The Oxford Internet Institute is a multidisciplinary research and teaching department of the University of Oxford, dedicated to the social science of the Internet.


disarm_id: G000559
name: Oxford University: Oxford Technology and Elections Commission (OxTEC)
url: https://oxtec.oii.ox.ac.uk/
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
primary_subject: Democracy
secondary_subject: Civil Liberties (human rights)
region: Europe
country: UK
summary:
  The Oxford Technology and Elections Commission, (OxTEC) is uniting experts on politics, technology, security and human rights to re-envision what constitutes trusted guidelines for managing a modern election. With the help of policy makers, elections administrators, and both computer and social scientists, OxTEC is exploring how democracies can integrate democratic norms and practices into the use of information technologies, social media, and big data during campaigns, with the goal of protecting the integrity of elections.


disarm_id: G000560
name: Oxford University: Reuters Institute for Journalism Studies (RIJS)
url: https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Europe
country: UK
summary:
  RIJS conducts research and provides fellowships to advance high-quality journalism. In support of its Digital News Project, RIJS researchers investigate topics related to journalism and technology, including social media and online news, citizen trust in media institutions, and the spread of false or misleading information.


disarm_id: G000562
name: Pagella Politica
url: https://pagellapolitica.it/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Europe
country: Italy
summary:
  Pagella Politica is an online fact-checking platform dedicated to assessing statements made by Italian politicians. The organization is one of Facebook's Third-Party Fact-Checkers.


disarm_id: G000564
name: Park Advisors
url: https://www.park-advisors.com/
sector: Other
primary_role: Public Policy
primary_subject: Democracy
secondary_subject: Civil Liberties (human rights)
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  Park Advisors uses technology and strategic partnerships to advocate for the rights of vulnerable and at-risk populations. In 2019, Park Advisors published the Disinformation Report, in fulfillment of a commissioned request on the part of the U.S. Department of State's Global Engagement Center (GEC). Park Advisors have also partners with GEC to run DisinfoCloud, and online database that evaluates tools that aim to research or counter online disinformation.


disarm_id: G000566
name: Patikrinta (15min)
url: https://www.15min.lt/tema/patikrinta-15min-62531
sector: Media
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Europe
country: Lithuania
summary:
  Patikrinta (Lithuanian for "Checked Out") is the fact-checking arm of Lithuanian media organization 15min. 15min is a member of the International Fact-Checking Network and is a Facebook Third-Party Fact-Checker.


disarm_id: G000569
name: Pesa Check
url: https://pesacheck.org/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Africa
country: Ethiopia
summary:
  PesaCheck is an African fact-checking organization that concentrates on financial and statistical information reported and promises made by public figures in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. PesaCheck is a member of the International Fact-Checking Network.


disarm_id: G000570
name: Pew Research Center
url: https://www.pewresearch.org/topics/trust-facts-and-democracy/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  The Pew Research Center conducts social science research on American attitudes and trends related to politics and public policy, journalism and media, and technology, among other issues. Recently, Pew has devoted additional resources to its research around trust, facts, and democracy in order to inform conversations about the role of information in society.


disarm_id: G000572
name: Ping Digital Network
url:
  https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/internet/can-fact-checking-emerge-as-big-and-viable-business/articleshow/69210719.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst


disarm_id: G000575
name: Policy Change Index
url: https://policychangeindex.org/
sector: Technology
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  The Policy Change Index (PCI) is an AI-assisted tool for propaganda analysis. The PCI project is open-source with two key features: It automates the content analysis of propaganda, and it delineates the boundaries between analysts’ objective assessment and subjective judgment.


disarm_id: G000576
name: Polígrafo
url: https://poligrafo.sapo.pt/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Europe
country: Portugal
summary:
  Polígrafo is a Portuguese fact-checking organization and a member of the International Fact-Checking Network.


disarm_id: G000577
name: Political Capital
url: https://www.politicalcapital.hu/introduction.php
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Countermeasures/response
region: Europe
country: Hungary
summary:
  Political Capital has been involved in the fight against conspiracy theories, fake news, disinformation and the post-truth phenomenon since 2010. They work to counter the spread of fake news and conspiracy theories. They also raise awareness about the problem and create guidelines on recognising and arguing against manipulative articles, information.


disarm_id: G000578
name: PolitiFact
url: https://www.politifact.com
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  Politifact conducts fact-checking journalism. They aim to give citizens the information they need to govern themselves in a democracy.


disarm_id: G000580
name: Pop-Up Newsroom
url: https://popup.news/
sector: Media
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Global
country: USA
summary:
  Pop-Up Newsroom is a media organization that produces innovative reporting to address specific contexts like elections. Pop-Up Newsroom was responsible for Verificado 2018, an anti-misinformation initiative focused on Mexico's 2018 elections and for Riksdagsvalet, a misinformation-tracking initiative focused on Sweden's general elections.


disarm_id: G000581
name: Post Facto
url: https://www.postfactogame.com/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Societal Resilience
region: North America
summary:
  Post Facto is an online game that teaches players to recognize and flag indicators that an article may contain misinformation. The goal of this solution is to educate the public about how to recognize false information.


disarm_id: G000582
name: Poynter Institute for Media Studies
url: https://www.poynter.org/ifcn/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  Through its International Fact-Checking Network, the Poynter Institute for Media Studies provides research on trends, best practices, and developments in international fact-checking efforts and supports fact-checking initiatives worldwide. The network provides fellowships, grants, and training for fact-checkers. The Poynter Institute is also the parent organization of PolitiFact, which conducts fact-checking in the United States.


disarm_id: G000583
name: Prague Security Studies Institute (Pražský Institut Bezpečnostních Studií) (PSSI)
url: http://www.pssi.cz/russia-s-influence-activities-in-cee
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
region: Europe
summary:
  PSSI conducts research on international peace and security in European states and provides training to students and professionals through conferences, workshops, and its Security Scholars Program. Part of its research agenda centers around Russian influence activities in Central and Eastern Europe, and PSSI has published analysis and sought to raise awareness about influence operations related to NATO, vaccinations, elections, and other topics. PSSI is part of the Center for European Policy Analysis's #DisinfoNet.


disarm_id: G000584
name: Predata
url: https://predata.com
sector: Technology
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  Predata parses open-source data to generate quantitative indicators of risk via machine-learning algorithms that can describe & predict trends. Government agencies can partner with Predata to build a predictive model to notify stakeholders when disinformation activity occurs. Analysts can use Predata algorithms to understand which topics and which actors are most active in spreading online disinformation, as well as better understand and predict disinformation trends and tactics.


disarm_id: G000587
name: Princeton University: Empirical Studies of Conflict Project
url: https://esoc.princeton.edu/
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
country: USA
summary:
  The Empirical Studies of Conflict Project (ESOC) launched in 2009 to support research on insurgency, civil war, and other politically motivated violence, worldwide. Today, ESOC identifies and compiles a wide range of micro-level data to empower scholarship and to help address pressing security threats. Beyond supporting research, we are committed to enabling policy responses to challenges related to political violence, ranging from civil war to economic development to misinformation campaigns.


disarm_id: G000591
name: Propastop
url: https://www.propastop.org/eng/
sector: Media
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Europe
country: Estonia
summary:
  Propastop is an independent blog dedicated to exposing propaganda and falsehoods circulating in Estonian media. The organization has also created a monitoring robot called Propamon that searches for mentions of Estonian in Russian media. Propastop is part of the Center for European Policy Analysis's #DisinfoNet.


disarm_id: G000592
name: Protected Voices Initiative (U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation)
url: https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/counterintelligence/foreign-influence/protected-voices
sector: Government
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  The FBI’s Protected Voices initiative provides tools and resources to political campaigns, companies, and individuals to protect against online foreign influence operations and cybersecurity threats.


disarm_id: G000596
name: R Street Institute
url: https://www.rstreet.org/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
primary_subject: Democracy
secondary_subject: Civil Liberties (human rights)
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  R Street engages in policy work to solve often-under addressed social issues. The recipient of a Madison Initiative Grant, they have used the support to sponsor their Governance Project, which aims to bolster the processes of U.S. democracy and institutions, namely the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, in the face of growing political polarization. The organization also runs an Election Security Initiative to help build capacity for state and federal efforts to share information about threats to elections.


disarm_id: G000597
name: Radware Bot Manager
url: https://www.radwarebotmanager.com/
sector: Technology
primary_role: Countermeasures/response
region: Asia
summary:
  Formerly Shieldsquare. Shieldsquare can be used to protect a website or to prevent bots from interfering with a web application by analyzing their behavior and taking actions to thwart the bot.


disarm_id: G000598
name: RAND Corporation
url: https://www.rand.org/topics/information-operations.html
sector: Technology
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  RAND Corporation provides public policy research and analysis, and its experts have written on influence operations in the context of "gray zone" operations below the threshold of war, media literacy, and Russian propaganda and social media influence, among other topics.


disarm_id: G000599
name: Rappler
url: https://www.rappler.com/
sector: Media
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Asia
country: Philippines
summary:
  Rappler is a news agency based in the Philippines that provides fact-checking services through its Rappler IQ subsection and supports the development of quality journalism worldwide. Rappler also organizes a Move.PH chat series to engage citizens around the issue of responsible and ethical journalism in the digital age. Rappler is one of Facebook's Third-Party Fact-Checkers.


disarm_id: G000603
name: Real Instituto Elcano
url: http://www.realinstitutoelcano.org/wps/portal/rielcano_en
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Countermeasures/response
region: Europe
country: Spain
summary:
  Real Instituto Elcano runs a project called MINDb4ACT, which is a multi-stakeholder effort to combat radicalization and violent extremism in Europe. Part of this work is aimed at countering propaganda and hate speech online and better understanding how online radicalization occurs.


disarm_id: G000605
name: Reality Team
url: http://realityteam.org/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Countermeasures/response
volunteers: Y
region: North America
summary:
  Reality Team is powered by a team of communications professionals, technologists, cybersecurity and disinformation analysts from the private and public sector who are committed to pushing back against disinformation. Our content is entirely independent, and non-partisan, focused on dispelling myths, rumors and disinformation.


disarm_id: G000606
name: Recorded Future
url: https://www.recordedfuture.com
sector: Technology
primary_role: Investigations
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  Recorded Future uses machine learning and natural language processing to identify the source of dark web content to enable further investigation. Analysts can use Recorded Future to identify if disinformation is being shared on dark web chat forums, or identify an increase in the dissemination of cyberhacking tools and data that enable the spread of disinformation.


disarm_id: G000609
name: Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press (RCFP)
url: https://factcheckerlegalsupport.org/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  RCFP provides legal resources in support of the U.S. First Amendment. Through its Fact-checkers Legal Support Initiative, developed with the International Fact-Checking Network and the Media Legal Defence Initiative, RCFP has created legal guides for fact-checkers. The organization also supports transparency in journalism and has written about the need to protect journalists from potential unintended consequences of laws aimed at curbing influence operations.


disarm_id: G000610
name: Reporters Without Borders: Information & Democracy Commission
url: https://rsf.org/en
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
primary_subject: Democracy
secondary_subject: Civil Liberties (human rights)
region: Europe
country: France
summary:
  RSF gathered an International Commission on Information & Democracy in 2018 and is working to implement the principles outlined in the resulting International Declaration on Information & Democracy that support Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and efforts to protect freedom of expression online.


disarm_id: G000611
name: Reporters Without Borders: Journalism Trust Initiative (RSF)
url: https://rsf.org/en
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
primary_subject: Democracy
secondary_subject: Civil Liberties (human rights)
region: Europe
country: France
summary:
  Through its Journalism Trust Initiative (in partnership with Agence France Presse, the European Broadcasting Union, and the Global Editors Network), Reporters without Borders (RSF) is developing a set of trust and transparency standards for journalism outlets with input from stakeholders in media, policy, technology, and academia. RSF also gathered an International Commission on Information & Democracy in 2018 and is working to implement the principles outlined in the resulting International Declaration on Information & Democracy that support Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and efforts to protect freedom of expression online.


disarm_id: G000612
name: Research Innovations
url: http://www.researchinnovations.com/
sector: Technology
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  Research Innovations develops a variety of software for government and military clients. Their expertise includes AI, big data, machine learning and analytics. Users can monitor messaging, disinformation campaigns, and malign influence tactics.


disarm_id: G000613
name: Research Institutes of Sweden (Sveriges Forskningsinstitut) (RISE)
url: https://www.ri.se/en/what-we-do/projects/skilled-online-understanding-disinformation
sector: Government
primary_role: Societal Resilience
region: Europe
country: Sweden
summary:
  RISE's Skilled Online project develops and tests curriculum and teaching tools related to disinformation online. Students participate in a workshop where they navigate online interactions based on their personal identities and vulnerabilities and learn skills for identifying and responding to false or misleading information.


disarm_id: G000617
name: REVEAL
url: https://revealproject.eu/
sector: Technology
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Europe
summary:
  REVEAL is an EU-funded project to develop technologies for verification of content online. The company will focus on social media analysis, understanding information flows, and generating an effective picture of how content travels online.


disarm_id: G000618
name: Reveal (Media Verification Assistant)
url: http://reveal-mklab.iti.gr/reveal/index.html
sector: Media
region: Global
country: Greece
summary:
  The Media Verification Assistant is an online tool for assessing the source and veracity of images, developed by CERTH-ITI and Deutsche Welle.


disarm_id: G000619
name: Riddle
url: https://www.ridl.io/en/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
region: North America
country: UK
summary:
  Riddle offers neutral and objective analysis on Russian domestic and foreign engagement. The organization also provides this in-depth analysis in both English and Russian. Recently, Riddle authors have written on topics of fake news and propaganda efforts linked to Russia and the Kremlin.


disarm_id: G000621
name: RMIT ABC Fact Check
url: https://www.abc.net.au/news/factcheck/
sector: Media
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Australia and Oceania
country: Australia
summary:
  In partnership with RMIT University, ABC has a dedicated fact-checking team called RMIT ABC Fact Check to help assess claims made by politicians, public figures, and others engaged in public debate.


disarm_id: G000622
name: RoBhat Labs
url: https://www.robhat.com/
sector: Technology
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  RoBhat Lab's products include Botcheck, which is used to detect and track Twitter propaganda, and SurfSafe, which is a fake news browser extension for Chrome.


disarm_id: G000623
name: Rocket Technology
url: https://www.rocket-technology.com
sector: Technology
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  Rocket Technology's solution set, SocioTrust enables analysis of social media disinformation in platforms with text, audio, pictures, photos, and video to determine what individual, corporate, or state actors are injecting into societies and how. It can also create counter-propaganda programs.


disarm_id: G000624
name: Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)
url: https://rusi.org/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: Europe
country: UK
summary:
  RUSI provides research and analysis on influence operations through the lens of defense and security and has published analysis on issues like Russia's influence operations in Central and Eastern Europe and how democracies should respond to influence operations.


disarm_id: G000626
name: Ryerson University: Social Media Lab
url: https://socialmedialab.ca/
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
region: North America
country: Canada
summary:
  The Social Media Lab is a multi- and interdisciplinary research laboratory at Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University. The lab studies how social media is changing the way people and organizations communicate, share information, conduct business and form communities online, and how these changes impact society. The lab’s research seeks to advance the public’s understanding of the benefits and pitfalls of social media adoption.


disarm_id: G000627
name: SaferNet
url: https://new.safernet.org.br/#mobile
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: South America
country: Brazil
summary:
  SaferNet is a Brazilian non-governmental organization that combats Internet crime in partnership with the Federal Public Ministry. It facilitates anonymous reporting and provides information and training about Internet safety and security.


disarm_id: G000628
name: Schema Claim Review
url: https://schema.org/ClaimReview
sector: Technology
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  Schema.org is a website dedicated to the vocabulary of structured data on the internet. If a web page contains content that reviews claims, ClaimReview structured data can enable a summarized version of the fact check to be displayed in search engine results.


disarm_id: G000630
name: Science Feedback
url: http://sciencefeedback.co/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Global
country: World
summary:
  Science Feedback is a community of scientists that provide context and commentary for scientific information reported in the news. The project has specific sections dedicated to health issues and to climate change issues, called Health Feedback and Climate Feedback.


disarm_id: G000631
name: Security and Intelligence Threats to Elections Task Force
sector: Government
primary_role: Investigations
region: North America
country: Canada
url:
  https://www.canada.ca/en/democratic-institutions/services/protecting-democracy/security-task-force.html

summary:
  Leading up to the 2019 election, the Canadian government established a Security and Intelligence Threats to Elections (SITE) Task Force to outline the responsibilities of various government agencies in monitoring, investigating, and responding to foreign threats to the integrity of Canadian elections.


disarm_id: G000634
name: Serelay
url: https://www.serelay.com/
sector: Technology
region: Europe
summary:
  Serelay has created a product called Trusted Media Capture that conducts point-of-capture verification to enable customers that rely on photographs and videos to authenticate their content.


disarm_id: G000637
name: Shout Out UK
url: https://www.shoutoutuk.org/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Societal Resilience
region: Europe
country: UK
summary:
  Shout Out UK creates and sells curriculum on political and media literacy to schools with the goal of empowering students to engage in the political process.


disarm_id: G000641
name: Slovak Foreign Policy Association (Slovenská Asociácia Zahraničnej Politiky) (SFPA)
url: http://www.sfpa.sk/en/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: Europe
country: Slovakia
summary:
  SFPA provides a space for discussion of foreign policy issues affecting Slovakia and the European Union. SFPA has organized projects on information warfare on the Internet and Russian information warfare and Ukraine, and it hosts the Slovak Forum Against Propaganda to create a space for discussion about influence operations and their impact on the European Union and NATO.


disarm_id: G000642
name: Snopes
url: https://www.snopes.com/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  Snopes.com utilizes high quality and reliable investigative reporting to provide a documented fact-checking service that allows their readers to become informed and draw their own independent conclusions.


disarm_id: G000644
url: https://sites.google.com/view/social-cybersec/home?authuser=0
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
primary_subject: Democracy
secondary_subject: Civil Liberties (human rights)
region: North America
country: USA
name:
  Social Cyber-Security Working Group (Center for Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems)

summary:
  The Social Cyber-Security Working Group develops new metrics, technologies and algorithms for analyzing human socio-cultural behavior given vast quantities of data. It forecasts and explains changes in the socio-cultural behavior using agent-based model and network science and assesses the impact of, and provides support for, the development of new social and organizational policies and procedures.


disarm_id: G000646
name: Social Media Observatory for Disinformation and Social Media Analysis (SOMA)
url: https://www.disinfobservatory.org/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Education (public)
region: Europe
country: Greece
summary:
  SOMA is a European Union-funded project aimed at creating a network of experts in disinformation, providing media literacy training program, and developing tools and standards for evaluating the impact of media programs and the quality of information sources.


disarm_id: G000647
name: Social Science One
url: https://socialscience.one/
sector: Technology
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  Social Science One is running an inaugural project on "the effects of social media on democracy and elections" that will make data from Facebook available to researchers to study the interaction of media, technology, and democracy that can inform future policy recommendations.


disarm_id: G000648
name: South Asia Check
url: http://southasiacheck.org/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Asia
country: Nepal
summary:
  South Asia Check is a fact-checking organization that covers South Asian news and the promises of public officials. South Asia Check is a member of the International Fact-Checking Network.


disarm_id: G000650
name: Sparks & Honey
url: https://www.sparksandhoney.com/
sector: Technology
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  sparks & honey employs big data and human expertise to develop cultural intelligence. Their proprietary technology inputs data from a wide variety of sources and couples these with expert analysis to create structured data that highlights large-scale cultural trends.


disarm_id: G000651
name: Squint
sector: Technology
region: North America
country: USA
url:
  https://www.mitre.org/publications/project-stories/squint-sharpens-officials-perspective-to-combat-election-distortion

summary:
  SQUINT by MITRE, also known as “Social See Something, Say Something”, is a mobile app and browser plugin that enables crowdsourced reporting of disinformation. The tool allows a user (among the crowd) to quickly and easily submit a screenshot and page metadata of supposed disinformation to state and local officials with the click of an icon.


disarm_id: G000653
url: https://www.ssrc.org/programs/component/media-democracy/the-media-democracy-network/#overview
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
primary_subject: Democracy
secondary_subject: Civil Liberties (human rights)
region: North America
country: USA
name:
  SSRC: Disinformation Research Initiative (Media & Democracy Network, Social Science Research Council)

summary:
  SSRC hosts a Program on Media & Democracy that promotes research on the relationship between media technologies and democratic practices. The program conducts the Disinformation Research Initiative to track scholarly research on the topic and manages the Media & Democracy Network as a place to share information and collaborate on scholarly projects related to misinformation/disinformation, polarization, hate speech, media consolidation, and other topics. Through its Social Data Initiative, SSRC also provides grants to organizations working with Social Science One on projects concerning social media and the flow of information.


disarm_id: G000654
name: SSRC: Program on Media & Democracy (Social Science Research Council)
url: https://www.ssrc.org/programs/view/media-democracy/
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Fact checking
primary_subject: Democracy
secondary_subject: Civil Liberties (human rights)
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  SSRC hosts a Program on Media & Democracy that promotes research on the relationship between media technologies and democratic practices. The program conducts the Disinformation Research Initiative to track scholarly research on the topic and manages the Media & Democracy Network as a place to share information and collaborate on scholarly projects related to misinformation/disinformation, polarization, hate speech, media consolidation, and other topics.


disarm_id: G000655
name: SSRC: Social Data Initiative (Social Science Research Council)
url: https://www.ssrc.org/programs/view/social-data-initiative/
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  Through its Social Data Initiative, SSRC also provides grants to organizations working with Social Science One on projects concerning social media and the flow of information.


disarm_id: G000657
name: Stanford University: Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC)
url: https://cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
primary_subject: Democracy
secondary_subject: Civil Liberties (human rights)
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  Housed at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Affairs, CISAC coordinates an Information Warfare Working Group and runs the Project on Russian Power and Purpose, which addresses Russian influence operations in the broader context of Russia's strategic aims and their impact on democracies worldwide.


disarm_id: G000658
name: Stanford University: Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL)
url: https://cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu/
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
primary_subject: Democracy
secondary_subject: Civil Liberties (human rights)
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  Part of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Affairs, CDDRL is dedicated to studying the interaction of the political, economic, social, and legal dimensions of democratic development. The center studies and teaches on poverty, instability, abusive rule, authoritarian resurgence, technology, populism, and globalization.


disarm_id: G000659
name: Stanford University: Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (PACS)
url: https://pacscenter.stanford.edu/research/program-on-democracy-and-the-internet/
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
primary_subject: Democracy
secondary_subject: Civil Liberties (human rights)
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  PACS runs the Program on Democracy and the Internet, which conducts multidisciplinary research on ways to maximize the benefits of the Internet while minimizing the threats it poses to democratic processes. Its scholars focus on social media and democracy, algorithmic bias and automated social engineering, the deterioration of digital information ecosystems, and political framing in media.


disarm_id: G000660
name: Stanford University: Cyber Policy Center
url: https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  Part of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, the Cyber Policy Center houses the Global Digital Policy Incubator, a forum for multi-stakeholder collaboration on policies concerning the application of international human rights law and international humanitarian law in an increasingly digital ecosystem.


disarm_id: G000661
url: https://cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/content/information-warfare-working-group
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: North America
country: USA
name:
  Stanford University: Information Warfare Working Group; European Security Initiative (Center for International Security and Cooperation) 

summary:
  The Information Warfare Working Group is housed at The Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. It is a multidisciplinary group of Stanford University scholars that meet quarterly to discuss the issue of cyber-enabled information warfare.


disarm_id: G000662
name: Stanford University: Internet Observatory
url: https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/about
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Investigations
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  Stanford University's Internet Observatory is a program of the Cyber Policy Center. It is a cross-disciplinary program of research, teaching and policy engagement for the study of abuse in current information technologies, with a focus on social media.


disarm_id: G000663
name: Stanford University: Journalism and Democracy Initiative (JDI)
url: https://jdi.stanford.edu
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Journalism
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  JDI seeks to improve journalism with the use of data and algorithms; combat misinformation; address challenges in reporting, storytelling, news distribution and consumption; and launch a "Trust and Verify" project to focus on defending against manipulated photos and videos.


disarm_id: G000664
name: Stanford University: Program on Democracy and the Internet
url: https://pacscenter.stanford.edu
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
primary_subject: Democracy
secondary_subject: Civil Liberties (human rights)
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  The Program on Democracy and the Internet (PDI) is housed at Stanford University. PDI creates and shares original empirical research around how digital technologies are impacting democracy to inform and educate decision-makers in the field, including the next generation of technologists, business leaders, and policymakers. This effort is intended to bring together scholars from a diverse set of disciplines to study the challenges and opportunities the Internet poses for democracies. The project also benefits from existing relationships with technology companies that serve as the new information intermediaries and the platforms for the new public square for modern democracy.


disarm_id: G000666
name: Stiftung Neue Verantwortung (SNV)
url: https://www.stiftung-nv.de/en/project/strengthening-digital-public-sphere
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: Europe
country: Germany
summary:
  Through its "Strengthening the Digital Public Sphere" project, SNV is working with the German Federal Foreign Office to build government capacity to deal with disinformation. SNV also conducts research to better understand the spread of disinformation in society, levels of news literacy, and public policy solutions for addressing contemporary information environments.


disarm_id: G000667
name: StopFake
url: https://www.stopfake.org/ru/glavnaya-2/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Europe
country: Ukraine
summary:
  StopFake conducts fact-checking and research on influence operations in Central and Eastern European countries. It also provides resources to inform the public about verifying information and conducts trainings for interested parties upon request.


disarm_id: G000670
name: Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (Myndigheten för samhällsskydd och beredskap) (MSB)
url: https://www.msb.se/en/
sector: Government
primary_role: Societal Resilience
region: Europe
country: Sweden
summary:
  MSB is the agency of the Swedish government charged with helping prepare for accidents, crises, and the consequences of war. In the area of influence operations, MSB commissioned Lund University researchers to put together a research report and a handbook on countering information influence activities, and the organization has integrated countermeasures into its preparations for Swedish elections and its educational efforts.


disarm_id: G000671
name: Tadaweb
url: https://www.tadaweb.com/
sector: Technology
primary_role: Countermeasures/response
region: Europe
country: Luxembourg
summary:
  Tadaweb is a platform for discovering and analyzing information on the web, which allows users to perform analysis of a specific topic to retrospectively derive insights about the spread of propaganda and disinformation. Analysts can monitor specific, suspicious online activity to address and counter disinformation in real-time.


disarm_id: G000672
name: Taiwan AI Labs
url: https://ailabs.tw/
sector: Technology
region: Asia
country: Taiwan
summary:
  Taiwan AI Labs’ technology is the “Islander System,” which takes a three-pronged approach to analyzing news and social media content: news content monitoring; news source inspection; and social media user behavioral analysis. The multidimensional analysis of news content will be available online so that users can see how different news outlets report the same story.


disarm_id: G000673
name: Taiwan FactCheck Center
url: https://tfc-taiwan.org.tw/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Asia
country: Taiwan
summary:
  Taiwan FactCheck Center is a Taiwanese fact-checking organization run by the Association for Quality Journalism and the Taiwan Media Watch and a member of the International Fact-Checking Network.


disarm_id: G000674
name: Tattle
url: https://tattle.co.in/faq/
sector: Technology
region: Asia
country: India
summary:
  Tattle is a project that aims to address misinformation on chat apps and encrypted messaging platforms.


disarm_id: G000676
name: Tech Media & Democracy (new york city universities partnership)
url: https://www.techmediademocracy.nyc
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Journalism
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  A partnership of New York City universities, Tech Media & Democracy aims to strengthen journalism in the digital environment and support democracy through research, teaching and training for individuals in journalism, design, and engineering.


disarm_id: G000677
name: Terbium Labs
url: https://terbiumlabs.com/
sector: Technology
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  Terbium Lab’s Matchlight dark web crawler provides visibility into information that has been exposed on the dark web. An API can connect Terbium’s data pipeline with analysis tools.


disarm_id: G000678
name: Teyit.org
url: https://teyit.org/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Asia
country: Turkey
summary:
  Teyit.org conducts fact-checking and hosts fact-checking workshops to promote media literacy. The organization is part of the International Fact-Checking Network and is a Facebook Third-Party Fact-Checker.


disarm_id: G000683
name: The Democracy Labs
url: https://thedemlabs.org/
summary:
  Democracy Labs is a hub for ongoing technology and creative innovation in service of a healthy democracy at the national, state, and local levels.  We focus on long term, sustainable and affordable solutions. An approach that is longer than an election cycle, and isn’t purely dependent on volunteers, can enable more qualified candidates to run for office and for more issue groups to bring about positive social change with little funds.


disarm_id: G000685
name: The Factual
url: https://www.thefactual.com/static/about.html
sector: Technology
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  The Factual is a technology company that assesses the partisanship, bias, and credibility of online news articles.


disarm_id: G000686
name: The Hague Center for Strategic Studies (HCSS)
url: https://hcss.nl
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: Europe
country: Netherlands
summary:
  HCSS conducts research on issues in defense and security and provides policy recommendations, surveys, analyses, risk assessments, and other products to both public and private sector organizations, including the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Defence. Its research has included analysis of hybrid conflict and Russian influence operations.


disarm_id: G000689
name: The Journal
url: http://thejournal.ie
sector: Media
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Europe
country: Ireland
summary:
  The Journal is an Irish online news source that conducts fact-checking. The organization is one Facebook's Third-Party Fact-Checkers and is part of the International Fact-Checking Network.


disarm_id: G000693
name: The News Hero
url: https://www.thenewshero.org/
sector: Government
primary_role: Societal Resilience
region: Europe
country: Europe
summary:
  The News Hero game gamifies the experience of discerning false news for public consumption. The goal of this solution is to educate the public on how to recognize disinformation.


disarm_id: G000694
name: The Pro-Truth Pledge
url: https://www.protruthpledge.org/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Public Policy
region: Global
country: USA
summary:
  The Pro-Truth Pledge is an initiative that aims to encourage public figures to be truthful in their communications and citizens to hold one another accountable for sharing truthful information.


disarm_id: G000695
name: The Propaganda Game
url: https://propagandagame.org
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Societal Resilience
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  The Propaganda Game is a free, publicly accessible social media literacy tool that aims to educate players on disinformation and its spread. It features the ability to upload and explore instances of propaganda found online, as well as functionality to facilitate teachers using the game in their classrooms.


disarm_id: G000703
name: The Whistle
url: https://www.thewhistle.co.il/feed
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Asia
country: Israel
summary:
  The Whistle is an Israeli media monitoring and fact-checking organization and a member of the International Fact-Checking Network.


disarm_id: G000704
name: Thompson Reuters Special Services
url: https://www.trssllc.com/
sector: Media
primary_role: Investigations
region: Global
country: USA
summary:
  Thomson Reuters Special Services offers data-driven consulting in national security intelligence; the group has created a visualization tool capable of mapping a group or government's influence as it pertains to foreign investments and disinformation.


disarm_id: G000707
name: TinEye
url: https://tineye.com/
sector: Technology
region: North America
country: Canada
summary:
  TinEye offers a suite of computer vision-based tools that support image search, reverse image search, duplicate/modified image finding, image tracking alerts, and image verification. TinEye also offers an API that enables developers to integrate reverse search functionality into their own platforms or products.


disarm_id: G000710
name: Transparency Map
url: https://www.transparentjournalism.org/journalist/
sector: Media
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Global
country: Spain
summary:
  A project of Spanish media organization Público, Transparency Map has designed the TJ Tool, a software that allows users to trace news information based on eight editorial indicators.


disarm_id: G000712
name: Trive
url: https://trive.news/
sector: Technology
region: Global
country: USA
summary:
  Trive is a browser extension designed to alert users visiting sites that are not sufficiently credible.


disarm_id: G000713
name: Troll Factory
url: https://trollfactory.yle.fi/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Societal Resilience
region: Europe
country: Finland
summary:
  Troll factory is a free, publicly accessible social media literacy tool that aims to educate players on disinformation and its spread by asking players to choose which in-game inflammatory content to share as a “troll.”


disarm_id: G000714
name: Truepic
url: https://www.truepic.com
sector: Technology
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  Truepic's technology verifies that an image or video hasn’t been altered or edited, and watermarks it with a time-stamp, geocode, and other metadata. Truepic stores a version of the photo in its digital vault and assigns it a six-digit code and URL for retrieving it. Truepic also immediately logs the image or video onto the Bitcoin blockchain.


disarm_id: G000715
name: Trust & Safety Professional Association
url: https://www.tspa.info
sector: Civil Society/NGO
region: Global
country: USA
summary:
  The Trust & Safety Professional Association curates a collection of links, which trust and safety professionals may find useful in efforts such as developing policies, supporting moderators, and building systems to detect platform violations.


disarm_id: G000717
name: Trust Project
url: thetrustproject.org
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  The Trust Project offers a set of "Trust Indicators" to help audiences better understand an organization's ethics, fairness, accuracy, background, and reporting processes. The project also offers "Trust Marks" for any organization that works with the project to meet the standards outlined by the Trust Indicators.


disarm_id: G000719
name: Trusted Times
url: https://trustedtimes.org
sector: Technology
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  Trusted Times uses a browser extension to identify fake and unreliable news and presents additional analysis through machine learning of any news article to show a reporter’s and news source’s bias, if any. Trusted Times screens thousands of news websites in the United States.


disarm_id: G000720
name: TrustServista
url: https://www.trustservista.com/
sector: Technology
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Europe
country: Romania
summary:
  TrustServista provides artificial intelligence-based software to help media organizations and content creators determine the trustworthiness of news sources, analyze text, and track online information flows.


disarm_id: G000722
name: Truth Nest
url: https://www.truthnest.com
sector: Technology
region: Europe
country: Greece
summary:
  TruthNest offers an accessible, user-friendly dashboard for Twitter analytics to discern an account’s credibility based on their activity, network, and influence. Additionally, TruthNest offers a score of likelihood that the account is a bot.


disarm_id: G000729
name: Tufts University: Edward R. Murrow Center for a Digital World
url: https://sites.tufts.edu/murrowcenter/
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
primary_subject: Democracy
secondary_subject: Civil Liberties (human rights)
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  Housed at the Fletcher School of International Affairs, the Edward R. Murrow Center for a Digital World was established to examine the role that news media, multinational corporations, and nongovernmental organizations play in international relations. The Center focuses on international media, public diplomacy, and the political and cultural impact of the digital media sphere.


disarm_id: G000732
name: Twitter Trails
url: http://twittertrails.com/
sector: Technology
region: Global
country: USA
summary:
  TwitterTrails is an online tool used to track the spread of stories on Twitter and measure how users perceive the veracity of the stories.


disarm_id: G000734
name: U.S. Department of Justice: Cyber-Digital Task Force (DOJ)
url: https://www.ojp.gov/
sector: Government
primary_role: Investigations
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  In 2018, DOJ established a Cyber-Digital Task Force to address global cyber threats. The task force produced a report categorizing types of malign foreign influence operations and describing DOJ's responses to these threats.


disarm_id: G000735
name: U.S. Department of State: Global Engagement Center
sector: Government
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Countermeasures/response
region: North America
country: USA
url:
  https://www.state.gov/bureaus-offices/under-secretary-for-public-diplomacy-and-public-affairs/global-engagement-center/

summary:
  DOS oversees the Global Engagement Center, which leads the U.S. government's efforts to identify and counter foreign and non-state influence operations. The center works with allied governments, civil society and nongovernmental organizations, and private companies to develop best practices, and it oversees the Information Access Fund, intended to provide grant support to organizations countering disinformation. The center's Technology Engagement Team works with stakeholders to develop, test, and demonstrate technological solutions to the problem of foreign influence operations.


disarm_id: G000736
name: U.S. Department of State: Technology Engagement Team
sector: Government
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Countermeasures/response
region: North America
country: USA
url:
  https://www.state.gov/bureaus-offices/under-secretary-for-public-diplomacy-and-public-affairs/global-engagement-center/

summary:
  The Technology Engagement Team directs, leads, synchronizes, integrates, and coordinates efforts of the Federal Government to recognize, understand, expose, and counter foreign state and foreign non-state propaganda and disinformation efforts aimed at undermining or influencing the policies, security, or stability of the United States and its allies and partner nations


disarm_id: G000737
name: U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation: Foreign Influence Task Force
url: https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/counterintelligence/foreign-influence
sector: Government
primary_role: Investigations
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  In 2017, FBI established a Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF) to identify and combat foreign influence operations in the United States. FITF collects and shares information about ongoing influence operations and works with field offices on countermeasures.


disarm_id: G000741
name: UK Government: DCMS subcommittee on online harms and disinformation
sector: Government
primary_role: Societal Resilience
region: Europe
country: UK
url:
  https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/438/digital-culture-media-and-sport-subcommittee-on-online-harms-and-disinformation/


disarm_id: G000744
name: Ukraine Crisis Media Center (UCMC)
url: http://ucmc.org.ua/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: Europe
country: Ukraine
summary:
  UCMC is dedicated to defending Ukraine's sovereignty in the face of Russian influence and serving as a hub for strategic communications within the country. UCMC houses a Hybrid Warfare Analytical Group that convenes experts to provide research and analysis in support of the Ukrainian government's efforts to counter Russian influence, and the organization has also developed a program on Strategic Communication to reassert control over the information space. UCMC is part of the Center for European Policy Analysis's #DisinfoNet.


disarm_id: G000745
name: Ukrainian Prism
url: http://prismua.org
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: Europe
country: Ukraine
summary:
  Ukrainian Prism provides research and analysis on defense and security policy issues. The organization runs a Russian Disinformation Resilience Index in partnership with EAST Center, meant to assess the strength of Central and Eastern European countries in resisting Russian influence operations.


disarm_id: G000754
name: United Kingdom Parliamentary Committee on Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
sector: Government
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: Europe
country: UK
url:
  https://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/digital-culture-media-and-sport-committee/sub-committee-on-disinformation/

summary:
  The UK Parliamentary Committee on Digital, Culture, Media and Sport hosts a Sub-Committee on Disinformation to explore legislative solutions to the issue of disinformation in the United Kingdom. The sub-committee grew out of an initial inquiry on disinformation and fake news that began in 2018 and conclusion in February 2019 with the publication of a formal report on the landscape of disinformation, political advertising, foreign influence, media literacy programs, and potential solutions.


disarm_id: G000755
name: University of Arkansas at Little Rock: COSMOS
url: http://cosmos.ualr.edu/
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  The Collaboratorium for Social Media and Online Behavioral Studies (COSMOS) Lab uses analytic methodologies to study online behaviors and sentiments, such as network reactions to certain types of content, and how false information spreads through a network.


disarm_id: G000757
name: University of Florida: Consortium on Trust in Media & Technology (CTMT)
url: https://www.jou.ufl.edu/consortium-on-trust-in-media-and-technology/
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Journalism
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  The CTMT is a multidisciplinary research initiative centered around "the crisis of trust affecting the nation and world." The consortium creates a space for researchers at the university to collaborate, develop insights into how media and technology can become more trustworthy, and explore potential new policies and laws.


disarm_id: G000761
url: https://www.cap-lmu.de/
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
primary_subject: Democracy
secondary_subject: Civil Liberties (human rights)
region: Europe
country: Germany
name:
  University of Munich: Center for Applied Policy Research (Universität München Centrum für angewandte Politikforschung) (CAP)

summary:
  CAP conducts research on issues in public policy and international peace and security with the goal of bridging the gap between politicians and academics. CAP has addressed issues concerning cybersecurity, online campaigning, and other technological developments impacting democracy.


disarm_id: G000762
url: https://citap.unc.edu/
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
primary_subject: Democracy
secondary_subject: Civil Liberties (human rights)
region: North America
country: USA
name:
  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life (CITAP)

summary:
  CITAP is dedicated to creating a foundational understanding of information environments in order to conduct research on misinformation, partisanship, polarization, propaganda, and political institutions. The group plans to make its data publicly available to inform additional research on the topic.


disarm_id: G000763
name: University of Pennsylvania: Center for Media at Risk (Annenberg School for Communication)
url: https://www.ascmediarisk.org/about/
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Fact checking
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  The Center for Media at Risk strategizes in response to threatening political conditions. Knowing how media practitioners work under authoritarian regimes and circumstances of creeping authoritarianism can help free/defend/empower/protect/save the media.


disarm_id: G000764
name: University of Pennsylvania: FactCheck.org (Annenberg Public Policy Center) (APPC)
url: https://www.factcheck.org/
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  Housed at APPC, Factcheck.org fact-checks statements made by American politicians during election cycles. Factcheck.org is one of Facebook's Third-Party Fact-Checkers.


disarm_id: G000766
name: University of Texas at Austin: Propaganda Program (Center for Media Engagement)
url: https://mediaengagement.org/propaganda-2/
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  Under the direction of Dr. Samuel Woolley, the propaganda program at the Center for Media Engagement focuses on how emergent technologies are used in and around global political communication. Woolley’s work on computational propaganda—the use of social media and other digital tools in attempts to manipulate public opinion—has revealed the ways in which a wide variety of political groups in the United States and abroad have leveraged tech such as bots and trending algorithms and tactics of disinformation and trolling in efforts to control information flows online.


disarm_id: G000767
name: University of Texas: Center for Media Engagement (CME)
url: https://mediaengagement.org/
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Fact checking
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  The Center for Media Engagement conducts research on journalism, media ethics, and science communication to develop strategies for more effective engagement with the public. The Center’s signature approach is one of “connective democracy,” which "unites newsrooms, scholars, platforms, and public policy entities in a methodical approach toward bridging gaps in our society." Their research has covered content moderation, building trust in news organizations, mitigating polarization, the ethics of deepfakes, and clickbait, among other topics.


disarm_id: G000768
name: University of Toronto: Citizen Lab
url: https://citizenlab.ca
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: North America
country: Canada
summary:
  The Citizen Lab conducts research and policy engagement at the intersection of technology and international peace and security. Part of this agenda concerns "targeted threats," or "investigations into the prevalence and impact of digital espionage operations against civil society groups."


disarm_id: G000769
name: University of Virginia: Democracy Initiative (DI)
url: http://democracyinitiative.virginia.edu/
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
primary_subject: Democracy
secondary_subject: Civil Liberties (human rights)
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  The Democracy Initiative (DI) is dedicated to the study of democracy and challenges to democracy, both past and present. In 2019, DI announced two new labs: The Deliberative Media Initiative Lab will address the factionalism in the current media ecosystem and the undermining of norms and trust in institutions, and the Democratic Statecraft Lab will address growing authoritarianism around the world and its challenges to democratic institutions.


disarm_id: G000771
name: University of Washington: Center for an Informed Public
url: https://ischool.uw.edu/research/center-informed-public
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
primary_subject: Democracy
secondary_subject: Civil Liberties (human rights)
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  The CIP is an interdisciplinary, non-partisan effort to convene industry, government, nonprofit, and academic stakeholders around developing strategies to resist misinformation and support an informed public in order to strengthen democracy. The Center is supported by the University of Washington Information School, Human Centered Design and Engineering Program, School of Law, and Communication Leadership Program.


disarm_id: G000772
name: University of Washington: Cybersecurity Initiative (International Policy Institute)
url: https://jsis.washington.edu/research/ipi/ipi-cybersecurity/
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  The Cybersecurity Initiative produces written research, cultivates a network of professionals for the exchange of expertise, hosts events on cybersecurity policy, develops and teaches courses on cybersecurity and mentors students interested in cybersecurity policy.


disarm_id: G000773
url: https://depts.washington.edu/emcomp/people/
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
region: North America
country: USA
name:
  University of Washington: Emerging Capacities of Mass Participation Lab (emCOMP) (Human Centered Design and Engineering)

summary:
  Housed at the School of Human-Centered Design & Engineering at the University of Washington, the Emerging Capacities of Mass Participation (emCOMP) Lab conducts research on new and social media and the changing dynamics of interaction in digital environments. With a particular focus on crisis events, emCOMP is investigating the spread of rumors and false or misleading information on social media platforms.


disarm_id: G000774
name: University of Washington: International Policy Institute (IPI)
url: https://jsis.washington.edu/research/ipi/ipi-cybersecurity/
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  IPI's Cybersecurity Initiative provides research and teaching on international cybersecurity politics and policy. The initiative produces written research, cultivates a network of professionals for the exchange of expertise, and develops and teaches courses on cybersecurity policy. The faculty and fellows affiliated with the Cybersecurity Initiative have addressed disinformation in their research on elections integrity, deepfakes, and Russia’s cyber strategy.


disarm_id: G000775
name: University of Wisconsin-Madison: Center for Communication and Civic Renewal (CCCR)
url: https://mcrc.journalism.wisc.edu/groups/cccr/
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  CCCR convenes faculty from multiple disciplines to study how state and regional communication systems affect political polarization. Its affiliates utilize public opinion research, computational content analysis, and qualitative interviews to conduct comparative studies of Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina in order to help local media combat political polarization.


disarm_id: G000780
name: VERA Files Fact Check
url: http://verafiles.org/specials/fact-check
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Asia
country: Philippines
summary:
  VERA Files Fact Check is a Filipino fact-checking organization, a member of the International Fact-Checking Network, and one of Facebook's Third-Party Fact Checkers.


disarm_id: G000786
name: Vilnius Institute of Policy Analysis (VIPA)
url: http://www.vilniusinstitute.lt/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: Europe
country: Lithuania
summary:
  VIPA conducts research and analysis on political institutions and public policy in Lithuania. The organization hosts scholars that study disinformation, information security, and media literacy, and it runs the #PackOfLies project, dedicated to revealing specific instances of disinformation.


disarm_id: G000787
name: Vinesight
url: https://www.vinesight.com/
sector: Technology
region: Asia
country: Israel
summary:
  Vinesight fights misinformation on social media channels by detecting trending campaigns and providing analytics and alerts about viral misinformation.


disarm_id: G000788
name: Viralgranskaren
url: https://www.facebook.com/viralgranskaren/
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Europe
country: Sweden
summary:
  Metro's Viral Reviewer helps you find out if the story spread on social media is true. Let's review before you share. viralgranskaren@metro.se
  You probably do not think about it, but every time you share a link, write a status or instagram a picture, you tell a little story. About yourself, about your contemporaries, about Sweden. Thanks to the internet, today we tell more stories than ever before. We tell about our world, and thereby we shape it.
  Not infrequently, these stories are widely disseminated. A Facebook status that is starting to be shared can suddenly have reached thousands of people, leading to leaflets and hot debates. But since over 4.7 million Swedes have Facebook, texts can be shared tens of thousands of times without ever passing a journalist's feed. And that's a problem. Because when a story about something sensitive or important, something that places itself in the middle of contemporary currents, is read by many people, they often shape their picture of reality after it. Whether it's true.


disarm_id: G000789
name: Vishvas News
url: http://www.vishvasnews.com/
sector: Media
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Asia
country: India
summary:
  Vishvas News is an Indian fact-checking organization and a member of the International Fact-Checking Network.


disarm_id: G000790
name: Vistinomer
url: http://vistinomer.mk/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Europe
country: Macedonia
summary:
  Vistinomer is a Macedonian fact-checking organization and a member of the International Fact-Checking Network.


disarm_id: G000795
name: WatchDog.md
url: https://watchdog.md
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: Europe
country: Moldova
twitter_handle: teamwatchdog
summary:
  WatchDog.md conducts research and analysis on public policy in Moldova with the goal of strengthening democratic development within the country. Its experts have published on Russian influence in Central and Eastern Europe and the integrity of Moldovan elections in the face of potential foreign influence. WatchDog.md is part of the Center for European Policy Analysis's #DisinfoNet.


disarm_id: G000796
name: We Verify
url: https://weverify.eu/about/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Europe
country: UK
summary:
  WeVerify is an EU-funded project designed to create a platform for collaborative content verification. InVID, a video content verification tool, is one product developed by the initiative.


disarm_id: G000798
name: WebQoof
url: https://www.thequint.com/news/webqoof
sector: Media
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Asia
country: India
summary:
  WebQoof is the fact-checking section of Indian media outlet The Quint and a member of the International Fact-Checking Network.


disarm_id: G000801
name: Who Targets Me?
url: https://whotargets.me/en/about-who-targets-me/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
region: Europe
country: Ireland
summary:
  Who Targets Me? is a browser extension that scrapes the ads from a user’s Facebook account in order to observe what political advertisements they receive. These ads are added to a database, where they are stored and analyzed. After continued use, the technology provides the user with a breakdown of posts and information about why the user was targeted with specific political content. Ads within the database can be studied for insights.


disarm_id: G000804
name: Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies
url: https://martenscentre.eu
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: Europe
country: Belgium
summary:
  The official think tank of the European People's Party, the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Policy produces research and analysis on European Union policy. Scholars affiliated with the center have published policy papers and reports on influence operations in relation to social media, content moderation, and European Parliament elections, among other topics.


disarm_id: G000805
name: Wilson Center
url: https://www.wilsoncenter.org/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  The Wilson Center conducts research and analysis on national and international public policy issues, including science and technology. Through its Digital Futures Project and Science and Technology Innovation Program, the Wilson Center is conducting research on influence operations and supporting the work of a disinformation fellow who will conduct research, outreach, and capacity-building around countering disinformation.


disarm_id: G000808
name: WITNESS
url: https://www.witness.org/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  WITNESS is dedicated to helping individuals use media to document human rights abuses. WITNESS has developed technological tools for verifying the authenticity of content, and through its Media Lab, the organization focuses on deepfakes and the need to develop strategies to verify the authenticity of content in order to secure freedom of expression.


disarm_id: G000810
name: World Economic Forum: Center for Cybersecurity
url: https://www.weforum.org/platforms/the-centre-for-cybersecurity
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: Global
country: Switzerland
summary:
  The Center for Cybersecurity convenes experts around issues including cyber warfare, law, and norms.


disarm_id: G000811
name: World Economic Forum: Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution
url: https://www.weforum.org/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: Global
country: Switzerland
summary:
  Through the Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, WEF develops policy frameworks for emerging technologies like artificial intelligence and machine learning, and the Center for Cybersecurity convenes experts around issues including cyber warfare, law, and norms. The Strategic Intelligence Center offers insights and contextual intelligence in the areas of AI, behavioral psychology, civic participation, cybersecurity, digital communications, digital identity, geopolitics, and global governance.


disarm_id: G000812
name: World Economic Forum: Shaping the Future of Media, Entertainment and Culture
url: https://www.weforum.org/platforms/shaping-the-future-of-media-entertainment-and-sport
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Fact checking
secondary_role: Journalism
region: Global
country: Switzerland
summary:
  Through its Shaping the Future of Media, Entertainment and Culture Project, WEF is working to rebuild trust in media institutions. Its Quality Project is creating a tool that aggregates data from other initiatives assessing media quality and allows users to make personalized decisions about how to weight factors of media quality in their own assessments. Additionally, Project Meridio aims at creating an open-source tool to empower users to manage their personal data. WEF is also supporting local independent news through its United for News program and helped launch the DQ Institute, which seeks to improve digital literacy.


disarm_id: G000813
name: World Economic Forum: Strategic Intelligence Center
url: https://www.weforum.org/strategic-intelligence
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
region: Global
country: Switzerland
summary:
  The Strategic Intelligence Center offers insights and contextual intelligence in the areas of AI, behavioral psychology, civic participation, cybersecurity, digital communications, digital identity, geopolitics, and global governance.


disarm_id: G000815
name: Yale University: Information Society Project (Law School)
url: https://law.yale.edu/isp
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  Based at Yale Law School, the Information Society Project is an interdisciplinary research center dedicated to exploring issues at the intersection of technology and law. It houses the Project on Governing the Digital Public Sphere, and the Knight Law and Media Program and the Media Freedom & Information Access Clinic, which trains students interested in careers in media law and provides free legal services to defend freedom of speech, freedom of the press and access to information.


disarm_id: G000816
name: Yale University: Project on Governing the Digital Public Sphere
sector: Education/academia
primary_role: Research (primary/secondary)
secondary_role: Public Policy
region: North America
country: USA
url:
  https://law.yale.edu/yls-today/news/balkin-receives-funding-knight-foundation-study-digital-public-sphere

summary:
  The Project on Governing the Digital Public Sphere will produce legal and policy recommendations to improve the functioning of the digital public sphere. The initiative studies topics from antitrust and privacy to content moderation and digital propaganda.


disarm_id: G000817
name: Yonder
url: https://www.yonder-ai.com
sector: Technology
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  Yonder provides artificial intelligence tools to detect, monitor, and mitigate online influence operations. The company also publishes research on information integrity and digital influence operations. Was New Knowledge


disarm_id: G000820
name: Zašto ne (Why Not)
url: https://zastone.ba/en/
sector: Civil Society/NGO
primary_role: Societal Resilience
region: Europe
country: Bosnia and Herzegovina
summary:
  Zašto ne (Why Not) is an organization that works on the creation of a safe, secure, healthy, active, efficient and accountable BiH society through increasing civic participation, influencing government accountability, use of new technology tools and promotion of socially engaged culture on the whole territory of BiH together with other interested groups, organizations, institutions and individuals.


disarm_id: G000821
name: ZeroFox
url: https://www.zerofox.com/
sector: Technology
primary_role: Countermeasures/response
region: North America
country: USA
summary:
  ZeroFox has developed a social media risk management platform. It claims to manage risk on social networks, the dark web, and external channels. It also claims to offer protection from fraud and hacking; and provides alerts of physical attacks on specific people, locations, and assets.


