# Awesome Misinformation [![Awesome](https://cdn.rawgit.com/sindresorhus/awesome/d7305f38d29fed78fa85652e3a63e154dd8e8829/media/badge.svg)](https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome)

A curated list of awesome misinformation. Inspired by [awesome-machine-learning](https://github.com/josephmisiti/awesome-machine-learning/)

If you want to contribute to this list (please do), send me a pull request or contact me [@bodacea](https://twitter.com/bodacea)

## Table of Contents

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- [Lists](#lists)

- [People](#people)
    - [Groups you could join](#groups)
    - [Organisations](#organisations)
    - [Notable people](#notablepeople)

- [Tools](#tools)

- [Data](#data)

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# Lists

* [CCC calendar and list of organisations](https://www.certifiedcontentcoalition.org/calendar-and-list)
* [news literacy project checklist](http://thenewsliteracyproject.org/fakenews)	
* [misinfocon events calendar](https://hackshackers.github.io/misinfocon-event-calendar/)	
* [A global guide to initiatives tackling fake news](https://gijn.org/2017/05/08/a-global-guide-to-initiatives-tackling-fake-news/)
* [civic data initiatives](https://medium.com/graph-commons/civic-data-initiatives-c4a0f40d9a23)	
* [FirstDraft misinformation reading list](https://firstdraftnews.com/misinformation-reading-list/)
* [library resources](http://www.programminglibrarian.org/articles/fake-news-library-round)
* [Sara's reading list](https://www.facebook.com/misinfolinks/)
* [the lamp reading list](http://thelamp.org/fake-news-and-media-literacy-what-people-are-saying/)
* [misinfocon lightning talks](http://nieman.harvard.edu/events/misinfocon-a-summit-and-creative-studio-on-misinformation/)

## Hashtags
* [#fakenewssci](https://twitter.com/hashtag/FakeNewsSci) Academics working on disinformation
* [#fakenews](https://twitter.com/hashtag/FakeNews) Used generally, but occasionally see serious posts using it (e.g. EU)
* [#misinformation](https://twitter.com/hashtag/misinformation)
* [#disinformation](https://twitter.com/hashtag/disinformation)


# People

## Groups
* [fakenewssci](https://twitter.com/hashtag/FakeNewsSci) Hashtag (#fakenewssci) and googlegroup for groups working on misinformation detection and handling	
* [Misinfocon](https://misinfocon.com/) Collection of people (@misinfocon) working on misinformation, loosely based around the misinfocon seminars 	
* [Credibility Coalition](https://meedan.com/credibility-coalition/) Group working on indicators for online misinformation. Used to be called CIWG; also created the W3 standard group
* [Hacks/Hackers](https://hackshackers.com/) Data journalism meetup, part of credibility coalition		
* [W3C credible web community](https://www.w3.org/community/credibility/) Group working on indicators for online misinformation	
* [MITI](https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/08/08/mozilla-information-trust-initiative-building-movement-fight-misinformation-online/) Mozilla group
* [IEEE P7011 working group on identifying and rating the trustworthiness of news sources](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ieee-p7011-working-group-meeting-registration-43720079936)

## Organisations

### Conflict

* [Stratcom EU vs disinfo group](https://euvsdisinfo.eu/)
* [CEPA Stratcom program](http://infowar.cepa.org/index/)
* [Weaponised Narrative Initiative (ASU/New America)](https://weaponizednarrative.asu.edu/)

### Fact-checkers

* [Poynter international fact-checker network](https://www.poynter.org/international-fact-checking-network-fact-checkers-code-principles)
* [Faktisk](https://www.faktisk.no/)	Norway fact-checkers
* [Wikitribune](https://www.wikitribune.com/)
* [CrossCheck](https://crosscheck.firstdraftnews.com/france-fr/)	French fact-checkers (Google News Lab and First Draft News)
* [StopFake](https://www.stopfake.org/)	Ukraine fact-checkers
* [Trust Project](https://www.scu.edu/ethics/focus-areas/journalism-ethics/programs/the-trust-project/)
* [Schema.org](http://schema.org/)
* [News Quality Scoring Project](https://mondaynote.com/tagged/fake-news)
* [News Tracker]()
* [Vubble](https://www.vubblepop.com/)
* [Veracity.ai](http://veracity.ai/)
* [Factmata](http://factmata.com/)
* [News Guard]()

### Journalism

* [CUNY News Integrity Initiative](https://www.journalism.cuny.edu/2017/04/announcing-the-new-integrity-initiative/)
* [Trusting News](https://trustingnews.org/)
* [Accountability Journalism Program](https://www.americanpressinstitute.org/category/fact-checking-project/)

### Others

* [Pheme Project](https://www.pheme.eu/software-downloads/)	2013-2016? EU project on misinformation tools	
* [News Literacy project](http://thenewsliteracyproject.org/)		
* [First Draft News](https://firstdraftnews.com/)	
* [Meedan](https://meedan.com/)	
* [Wikimedia](https://www.wikimedia.org/)		
* [Google Fact Check](https://blog.google/products/search/fact-check-now-available-google-search-and-news-around-world/)	
* [Facebook]()
* [Mozilla Foundation]()		
* [Indonesian Cyber Media Association]()			
* [Factual Democracy Project]()
* [High level experts group on disinformation](https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/final-report-high-level-expert-group-fake-news-and-online-disinformation)	
* [DFRlab](https://www.digitalsherlocks.org/dfrlab)	Atlantic council group working on Disinformation (Kings College)	
* [Commons Project](https://www.facebook.com/CommonsProject/) Team using bots and humans to repair divides created by misinformation

## Notable people

* [Jonathan Albright](https://twitter.com/d1gi)
* [Ed Bice](https://twitter.com/edbice)
* [Kalina Bontcheva](https://twitter.com/kbontcheva)
* [David Carroll](https://twitter.com/profcarroll)
* [Ben Nimmo](https://twitter.com/benimmo)
* [Kate Starbird](https://twitter.com/katestarbird)
* [Twitter list](https://twitter.com/bodaceacat/lists/misinformation-geeks/)


# Tools

## bots and botnets

* [botcheck.me](https://botcheck.me/) Chrome extension, gives p(bot)	

## damage repair

* [TheCommonsProject](https://medium.com/@howtobuildup/building-the-commons-dc60e6ee7b69) Good bots, engaging with divided communities before handing off to humans	

## claim checks and viewpoints

* [AllSides](http://www.allsides.com) Shows left, centre and right views of news stories	(AllSides)
* [Blue Feed, Red Feed](http://graphics.wsj.com/blue-feed-red-feed/)			

## alerts
* [KremlinWatch](https://www.kremlinwatch.eu/)
* [Hamilton68](http://dashboard.securingdemocracy.org/) Monitors output from known trolls


## unsorted

* [FakerFact](https://www.fakerfact.org/) FakeNews AI for article evaluation [chrome extension](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fakerfact/hmcmekfmgfmilmmnicpmkfkccgnfegef)
* [Mapping The Globe](http://globe.mediameter.org) Maps geographical attention of stories	(Boston Globe)
* [MediaBreaker](http://thelamp.org/portfolio/media-breaker/) Media literacy materials	(The Lamp)
* [Hypothesis](https://hypothes.is/) User markup for html pages	(Hypothesis)
* [Annotation standard](https://www.w3.org/annotation/) Describes html annotation standards (e.g. for hypothesis)	(W3)
* [Block Together](https://blocktogether.org/) Blocks new and low-friend SM accounts	
* [ClaimReview](https://schema.org/ClaimReview) Standards (schema.org)
* [ShareTheFacts](http://www.sharethefacts.org/) Widget	(DukeUni and Google)
* [Google FactCheck](https://blog.google/products/search/fact-check-now-available-google-search-and-news-around-world/) (Google)
* [FactsMission](factsmission.com)		
* [TweeFi](https://twee.fi)	
* [WikiCite](https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite) (Wikimedia)
* [FactMata](https://factmata.com/)			


# Data

## Bots and trolls
* [botsentinel](https://botsentinel.com/)
* [probabot](https://twitter.com/probabot_]) Rates accounts from bot to not
* [Jonathan Albricht's dataset of bot posts](https://data.world/d1gi/)	
* [538 list of IRA tweets 2012-2018](https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/russian-troll-tweets/)

## Misinformation
* [Pheme 8.2 annotated news corpus](https://www.pheme.eu/software-downloads/)
* [false, misleading, clickbaity and satirical 'news' sources](https://d279m997dpfwgl.cloudfront.net/wp/2016/11/Resource-False-Misleading-Clickbait-y-and-Satirical-%E2%80%9CNews%E2%80%9D-Sources-1.pdf)Melissa list (2016)
* [fake news challenge](http://www.fakenewschallenge.org/)	
* [Ushadrons](https://medium.com/@ushadrons)
* [Twitter's state-backed infoops archives](https://about.twitter.com/en_us/values/elections-integrity.html#data)
* [Grafika Information Operations Archive - 2018 Twitter and Reddit IRA datasets](https://www.io-archive.org/#/)

## Adverts
* [House intelligence facebook ads sample](https://democrats-intelligence.house.gov/hpsci-11-1/) creatives
* [House Intelligence Committee Facebook ads](https://democrats-intelligence.house.gov/facebook-ads/social-media-advertisements.htm) creatives


# Literature

* Check the accompanying spreadsheet for now.