Thread by @listen_2learn

Time for another thread. This one is to shine a light on the academics, NGOs, governmental authorities, etc., who are actively working to shut down free speech. These totalitarians want to determine what is true or not in order to stop people from speaking the truth.

This is the Stanford Internet Observatory's online "trust and safety" journal. All technocrats use the words "trust" to get people to believe that what they are saying is the truth when in actuality, it is political ideology.

tsjournal.org/index.php/jots…

This is Stanford.... In an effort to understand older adults' engagement with misinformation better, we investigate the misinformation experiences.

tsjournal.org/index.php/jots…

Stanford: The prevalence and spread of online misinformation during the 2020 US presidential election served to perpetuate a false belief in widespread election fraud.

tsjournal.org/index.php/jots…

Stanford: In the lead-up to the 2020 US presidential election, adherents to QAnon conspiracy theories parlayed the “Save the Children” slogan from a well-known charity into a vector for exposure and political mobilization.

academia.edu/79138419/Paved…

Stanford openly brags about "take downs".

Independent analysis of removed information operations from major platforms.

cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/content/tak…

This is Stanford's collaboration with the University of Washington so they can determine what is true or not in the elections space. There is NOTHING non-partisan about this organization.

eipartnership.net

Control the message. Control the masses.

https://twitter.com/nataliegwinters/status/1587135297208320003

The Indivisible "Truth Brigade" trolls social media to tell people what is dis- or mis-information. This radical leftist group says it is grassroots but they are anything but. Their allies include the DSA, ACLU, PP, and the Tides Foundation.

indivisible.org/indivisible-tr…

Most information is disinformation according to these Marxists.

The left used to be all about free speech but now they are cogs for the system and are totalitarians pushing harder and harder to shut down speech.

The Rand Corp works with the gov & tech companies to silence speech. They have a tool to combat disinformation by providing users with an assessment of the accuracy & credibility of info & by flagging, & correcting, false or misleading information.

rand.org/research/proje…

Adblock Plus is a browser extension & app that blocks ads & websites through the use of filtering lists. The tool whitelists ads that meet the "acceptable ads" standards — so ads can avoid being blocked on this platform by adhering to those standards.

adblockplus.org

The Bad News tool is intended to build user understanding of the techniques involved in the dissemination of disinformation. This game exposes players to fake news tactics used against them by putting them in the position of a news baron for fake news.

getbadnews.com/en#intro

Developers use the data they collect to explore the effect of bots and their propaganda on discourse and to explore ways to counter the spread of bots and the information they disseminate. Classifying untrustworthy accounts is a manual process.

botsentinel.com

CaptainFact is a collection of tools designed for collaborative verification of internet content. It includes a browser extension that provides a video overlay to internet videos with sources & contextual info.

captainfact.io

ClaimBuster is a web-based automated, live fact-checking tool developed by University of Texas at Arlington. The tool relies on natural language processing & supervised learning (based on a human-coded dataset) to identify factual and false information.

idir.uta.edu/claimbuster/

Climate Feedback is a worldwide network of scientists sorting fact from fiction in climate change media coverage. Our goal is to help readers know which news to trust.

climatefeedback.org

With the U.S. midterm elections approaching and political disinformation posing a continued threat to democracy, UC Berkeley’s ambitious new Our Better Web initiative is advancing efforts to study and combat online harms.

citrispolicylab.org/ourbetterweb/

Climate change misinformation sows skepticism creating the sense that there is a more extensive debate than there really is. Climate deniers spread baseless, unscientific climate denial harnessing the power of social media platforms.

counterhate.com/topic/climate-…

Misinformation sites are serving as super-spreaders for conspiracy theories and identity-based hate, funded by advertisers who have no idea their ads are even appearing there. We call on brands advertising on sites to stop funding misinformation.

counterhate.com/topic/stop-fun…

The Credibility Coalition is a research community that fosters collaborative approaches to understanding the veracity, quality and credibility of online information that is a foundation of civil society.

credibilitycoalition.org

The Knight Foundation announced that 9 universities & nonprofits were awarded more than $1.2 million to work on projects to identify solutions that help news orgs & civil society expose & lessen the impact of disinformation on communities of color.

knightfoundation.org/press/releases…

The Stanford Cyber Policy Center, and others, colluded with the federal government to squash what THEY determined was covid mis- and dis-information.

DHS is quietly broadening its efforts to curb speech it considers dangerous. Years of internal DHS memos, emails, and documents illustrate an expansive effort by the agency to influence tech platforms.

theintercept.com/2022/10/31/soc…

Should be called Center for a Hive Mind.

cip.uw.edu

Sorting through the vast amount of information created and shared online is challenging even for experts. This page defines terms including and related to "fake news" while offering resources and information to avoid both reading and sharing it.

guides.lib.uw.edu/c.php?g=345925…

"To provoke takedowns or demotions on platforms controlled by all three major social media companies –including thousands of misleading or inauthentic posts."

The democrat party works with tech companies to censor speech.

democrats.org/who-we-are/wha…

Digital disinformation is a whole-of-society problem, and it will take a whole-of-society approach — involving social media companies, government, the media, campaigns, and the general public — to begin to address the challenges.

democrats.org/who-we-are/wha…

The democrat party works with the Stanford Cyber Policy Center to censor free speech.

cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/content/how-re…

Stanford Cyber Policy Center Newsroom Playbook for Propaganda Reporting

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The Stanford Cyber Policy Center recommends UNESCO, a UN WEF technocrat organization, guidelines for disinformation.

The Stanford Information Warfare Working Group seeks to advance our understanding of the psychological, organizational, legal, technical, & information security aspects of information warfare & will produce recommendations for combatting disinformation.

cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/content/inform…

A Stanford Information Warfare Working Group article. Most of these groups were formed after Trump was elected because they have to control the message to control the people and they can't have another non-technocrat win again.

sfchronicle.com/opinion/articl…

The failure of warnings to curb credulity on the part of participants in the study is disturbing. However a phenomenon that is even more relevant to the concerns of this essay is the difficulty of after-the-fact undoing of the damage done by misinfo.

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A large number of companies are delivering social listening & other solutions that take advantage of open-source info & are able to quickly assess it. The CIA-afliated firm In-Q-Tel has nurtured many promising technology start-ups with seed money.

fsi-live.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/ze…

"... for cooperation among democratic governments to create a new transnational system for regulating social media to protect Western democracies from information warfare."

Transnational governing system = global UN WEF technocracy

The DNC is working with major social media companies to combat platform manipulation and train our campaigns on how best to secure their accounts and protect their brands against disinformation.

democrats.org/who-we-are/wha…

YouTube has partnered with its sister-company Google to introduce PageRank into its news search and recommendation algorithm, raising the search visibility of authoritative news sources.

pi.math.cornell.edu/~mec/Winter200…

The Open Society Foundations... to conduct research on misinformation campaigns during the European elections.

opensocietyfoundations.org/grants/past?gr…

A global coalition of 30+ leading climate and anti-disinformation organisations demanding robust, coordinated and proactive strategies to deal with the scale of the threat of climate misinformation and disinformation.

caad.info

We will conclude with a look ahead to the 2020 elections and a call-to-action for the audience to deploy their skills in the defense of democracy.

theintercept.com/2022/10/31/soc…

Defund @NPR

npr.org/2019/10/29/774…

We will mobilize news literacy practitioners — educators, students and the public — to collectively push back against misinformation in all its forms. This work will move us much closer to changing cultural attitudes toward mis- and disinformation.

newslit.org

After just over a month, and with no thorough investigation, Masterson knew the 2020 election was the most secure election in the history of elections. Then he joined the Stanford Internet Observatory, a speech censorship organization.

npr.org/2020/12/22/949…

Labeling something as disinformation is simply tyrants shutting down speech that they don’t like or agree with by people the tyrants think are stupid and need to be corrected. The ultimate goal is to control people. The tyrants are gunning for the end of free speech. 🧵

This little girl is a “disinformation specialist” at @NBCNews. She says that the tyrants shouldn’t just focus on rebutting disinformation but to engage the uneducated folks in the real world to change their behavior.

The little girl from @NBCNews also thinks the government needs to save us from disinformation. She then plays a clip of @SenatorBennet saying that congress needs to create a technocratic committee to regulate speech since the political bums can’t.

The little girl from @NBCNews then plays a rap from a “doctor” (PhD in science education) that extols the virtue of lockdowns, which thinking people know caused damage that we will never recover from. It’s pure propaganda.

Next up is a lady from the Stanford Internet Observatory discussing “friction” (AI/throttling) as a way to slow down information that the tyrants say might be disinformation. Friction allows the “informed” folks to have time to determine if the speech is correct or not.

The @UChicago medical school has created misinformation curriculum to indoctrinate the next generation of petty tyrants who will unfortunately be the next generation of pronoun, gender affirming “doctors”.

Next up is a genius talking about conspiracy theories who then mentions the conspiracy theory of unvaccinated people being a threat to society.

You can’t make this up.

Lastly, the little girl from @NBCNews wants to discuss how to shut down the speech of “pseudo experts”, meaning experts who were proven to be right about everything. The solution? Strip doctors of their credentials if they don’t tow the party line. This is totalitarianism.

The authors explicate potential approaches to containing “fake news” including trust and verification, disrupting economic incentives, de-prioritizing content and banning accounts, as well as limited regulatory approaches.

datasociety.net/library/dead-r…

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 civil rights.

datasociety.net/research/media…

DISARM is a framework for describing & understanding disinfo incidents. DISARM is part of work on adapting information security practices to help track & counter disinformation & other info harms, & is designed to fit existing infosec practices & tools.

github.com/DISARMFoundati…

Manipulate content engagement metrics (ie: Reddit & Twitter) to influence/impact news search results (e.g. Google), also elevates RT & Sputnik headline into Google news alert emails. aka "Black-hat SEO".

github.com/DISARMFoundati…

Counter C00070: Block access to disinformation resources

github.com/DISARMFoundati…

Includes “change image search algorithms for hate groups and extremists” and “Change search algorithms for hate and extremist queries to show content sympathetic to opposite side”.

github.com/DISARMFoundati…

Counter C00117: Downgrade / de-amplify so message is seen by fewer people

github.com/DISARMFoundati…

Create policy that makes social media police disinformation. Includes: Use fraud legislation to clean up social media.

github.com/DISARMFoundati…

Counter C00066: Co-opt a hashtag and drown it out (hijack it back)

github.com/DISARMFoundati…

Technique T0016: Create Clickbait

github.com/DISARMFoundati…

These are introductions to the DISARM family of disinformation models: STIX, TTPs, and Countermeasures. It covers their origins, their contents, and their uses.

github.com/DISARMFoundati…

MisinfoSec Working Group’s earlier work described misinformation incidents as a series of tactical stages. This paper discusses the work needed to determine
those stages, including whether we need more than one model for misinformation.

cyber.harvard.edu/sites/default/…

Sara-Jayne Terp uses the tools of cybersecurity to track false claims like they’re malware. Her goal: Stop dangerous lies from hacking our beliefs.

wired.com/story/data-sci…

The Center on Narrative, Disinformation and Strategic Influence fuses humanities & social science research with computer science & modeling to support efforts to safeguard the US, its allies, & democratic principles against malign influence campaigns.

globalsecurity.asu.edu/expertise/narr…

There's an insidious threat that seeks to divide the nation and undermine our faith in democracy — disinformation. ASU researcher Scott Ruston offers tips on how to defend yourself.

KGB specialists used a variety of methods 2 try 2 influence the decisions of foreign leaders, particularly relying on invented disinfo claims that played on fears of these leaders. There is no reason to believe that the techniques aren't being used today.

e.america.gov/t/ViewEmail/i/…

As pointed out in GEC Counter-Disinformation Dispatches #3, debunking does work, to varying degrees with different audiences. But how you do it matters a great deal.

e.america.gov/t/ViewEmail/i/…

Using information security techniques, we will explore the ways misinformation campaigns are formed and the tools attackers use to influence us. We will then look at the ways we can counter these threats.

bacesecurity.org/page/misinform…

internet2.edu/wp-content/upl…

Peraton was awarded nearly $1 billion to provide the DoD, U.S. Central Command & its mission partners with ops planning, implementation, & assessment services to achieve ops advantages in the info space & to counter threats to U.S. national security.

news.clearancejobs.com/2021/08/13/per…

Have you experienced censorship? Has your right to freedom of speech and expression been threatened? One of the best ways to fight censorship is to call it out as it happens.

ncac.org/report-censors…

NCAC’s Youth Free Expression Program & Kids’ Right to Read Project database of K-12 student censorship incidents includes book challenges in schools & libraries, as well as censorship of student art, journalism, & other types of student expression.

ncac.org/youth-censorsh…

Free speech is key to effective advocacy. The First amend guarantees everyone the private right to exercise their political voice for social change. These resources offer tips & strategies for students, artists & activists seeking to drive social change.

ncac.org/resource/tools…

59 national not-for-profit orgs make up the National Coalition Against Censorship. These diverse organizations, representing the artistic, educational, religious, and labor communities, join together in the interest of protecting First Amendment rights.

ncac.org/about-us/coali…

This DEFEND LGBTQ STORIES resource offers an overview of common arguments made by would-be censors and techniques for advocating for LGBTQ stories in your schools and communities.

ncac.org/resource/defen…

This report finds effective ways to moderate problematic content within end-to-end encrypted systems without sacrificing users’ fundamental rights to privacy, free expression, & security.

cdt.org/insights/outsi…

Anti-Latinx Computational Propaganda in the United States. Given that the Latino community is the second largest ethnic group in the US, an understanding of how Latinos are discussed and targeted on social media during US elections is crucial.

arxiv.org/abs/1906.10736

he Latino Anti-Disinformation Lab found that 66% of Latinx respondents whose primary language is Spanish say they received wrong and harmful information about the COVID-19 vaccine through messaging apps.

votolatino.org/media/press-re…

Voto Latino’s CEO & Media Matters for America’s President talked about the Latino Anti-Disinformation Lab, an important new initiative to help combat the malicious disinfo aimed at the Latino community.

A Rockefeller Foundation NGO. No surprise.

rockefellerfoundation.org/video/the-lati…

Common Cause, now the Civic Listening Corps, trolls social media for mis and disinformation. They then report their findings to the social media companies, academics and the government in order to censor accounts & info. Here is one of their trainings.

rumble.com/vmcf0k-social-…

A global coalition of 50+ leading climate & anti-disinfo orgs demanding robust, coordinated & proactive strategies to deal with the scale of the threat of climate misinformation & disinformation.

Totalitarians must shut down speech to control people.

caad.info

The Institute for Strategic Dialogue is an international organization that helps identify extremists around the world via disinformation. This article demonstrates how accurate their disinformation analysis is. @mtgreenee @RonDeSantisFL

isdglobal.org/digital_dispat…

The UN WEF technocrats must shut down speech so that people won’t wake up to their plans before it’s too late to do anything. The list of organizations censoring speech for the UN includes #twiiter and @elonmusk

The DHS CISA technocrats know better than us stupid rubes because they get our tax dollars and are college educated. Oh, and they are also “non-partisan”. So only trust their information because we know they would never, ever fudge the data. 😂🤡

A coalition of groups is calling on Biden to create a task force to explore ways to crack down on deliberate disinformation campaigns in ways that don't unduly limit free expression.

Who is one of the totalitarian signatories? @PolitiFact

axios.com/2021/04/29/bid…

We pressure companies and Congress to reduce disinformation and ensure that the free speech of individuals is not limited by corporate actors, foreign influence, or coordinated radical networks like QAnon.

foe.org/projects/disin…

When too many people started to figure out the UN WEF technocrat's plan for global governance, all of their affiliates started to quickly pivot from free speech for all to disinformation so shut down speech. This is an example from one of NGOs that demonstrates this point.

The Coalition for Content Provenance & Authenticity addresses the prevalence of misleading information online through the development of tech standards. C2PA is a joint project, formed through an alliance between Adobe, Arm, Intel, Microsoft & Truepic.

c2pa.org

Misinformation is a growing threat to the integrity of the information eco-system. Having a provable source of origin for media, and knowing that it has not been tampered with en-route, will help to maintain confidence in news from trusted providers.

originproject.info

Addressing misinformation through digital content provenance. We are a community of media and tech companies, NGOs, academics, and others working to promote adoption of an open industry standard for content authenticity and provenance.

contentauthenticity.org

Integrate secure provenance signals into your site, app, or service using open-source tools developed by the Content Authenticity Initiative. Join the ecosystem of transparency of provenance & attribution of digital content to counter the rise of misinfo.
opensource.contentauthenticity.org

During the summit held in Bali, Indonesia, the G20 Leaders signed a declaration endorsing the censorship of “disinformation.” The Biden administration endorsed the declaration by publishing it on the White House website.

whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…

The report calls for policy solutions including the creation of a transatlantic Counter Disinfo Coalition, comprising public & private sector reps charged with developing best practices for contesting disinfo such as standards for social media companies.

demdigest.org/counter-disinf…

How do you know the "disinformation" experts are just partisan hacks shutting down speech? They call January 6th an armed insurrection.

cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/content/tak…

Google & YouTube announced a policy that prohibits climate deniers from being able to monetize their content on its platforms via ads or creator payments. It's one of the most aggressive measures any platform has taken to combat climate change misinfo.

axios.com/2021/10/07/goo…

Facebook is expanding the geographic reach of its recently launched online portal to counter misinformation about climate change, and will take new steps to steer users of the platform toward those resources.

axios.com/2021/02/18/fac…

Twitter is adding a topic that directs users to credible information about climate change in a new effort to combat the spread of misinformation, USA TODAY has learned.

usatoday.com/story/tech/202…

FB took down at least 9 pages that were funneling millions of followers to unfounded claims about the coronavirus, the flu vaccine & other health issues after the nonpartisan think tank German Marshall Fund flagged them as part of a coordinated network.

usatoday.com/story/tech/202…

@EpochTimes

CredCat is a catalog of initiatives that have a stated aim to improve information quality. The catalog includes information on fact-checking groups, technology tools, academic and research institutions, and other initiatives.

credibilitycoalition.org/credcatalog/

Credibility Coalition aims to develop common standards for information credibility by incubating activities and initiatives that bring together people and institutions from a variety of backgrounds through a variety of activities.

credibilitycoalition.org

FB deployed a new AI technology called Few-Shot Learner that can adapt to take action on new or evolving types of harmful content within weeks instead of months.

ai.facebook.com/blog/harmful-c…

A list of "non-partisan" non-profits who want to shut down free speech. They need to have their tax statuses re-examined. 🧵

Non-profit hacks continued.

Non-profit hacks continued.

Elon Musk buying Twitter is a threat to the UN WEF technocrats controlling speech.

This guy leads the department of propaganda at UT Austin.

UT propaganda continued.

The free flow of information and the unjust banning of social media only matters if your cause is deemed worthy by the technocrats. Otherwise, you are a threat to democracy.

Imagine if these groups and people spent the same amount of time working towards noble goals instead of trying to silence speech they don’t like.

Another example.

I’d like to know how much time and money is being spent by the US government to shut down speech in the name of “disinformation”. Shutting down all of these efforts should be a priority for republicans. 🧵

Government overreach continued.

Government overreach continued.

The State Department working to shut down speech.

state.gov/disarming-disi…

The Pentagon was forced to launch a sweeping audit of how it conducts clandestine information warfare after a variety of social media accounts which its operatives used to target foreign audiences in elaborate psychological warfare efforts were exposed.

about.fb.com/news/2022/11/m…

Effective November 23, 2022, Twitter is no longer enforcing the COVID-19 misleading information policy.

This is why they are targeting Elon Musk.

transparency.twitter.com/en/reports/cov…

This supporter toolkit is our comprehensive guide on how you can help make climate denial and climate misinformation unprofitable.

stopfundingheat.info/supporters-too…

If you would like to help find climate misinformation, we
have a core team of volunteers scanning the news every
day. But we always need help! Get in touch with us at
[e-mail] and let’s chat.

stopfundingheat.info/wp-content/upl…

Spotted climate denial or misinfo? Take a photo of the article. Make sure to capture the ads that feature near the article. After you submit your article we will keep it on record & ask others to join you in targeting the advertisers you’ve identified.

stopfundingheat.info/submit-climate…

Seeing false and toxic information as a potentially expensive liability, companies in and outside the tech industry are angling to hire people who can keep it in check.

nytimes.com/2022/11/28/tec…

Richard Stengel will explain not only why disinformation is a threat to democracy, but what we can do about it.

As disinformation campaigns become more sophisticated, we’re building new technology to strengthen our collective defenses.
jigsaw.google.com/issues/#disinf…

Coordinated disinformation campaigns are more likely to thrive when they go unnoticed and unchecked. This interactive visualizer breaks down the methods, targets, and origins of select coordinated disinformation campaigns throughout the world.

jigsaw.google.com/the-current/di…

Jigsaw developed prebunking videos with input from research institutions including Demagog, National Research Institute (NASK), and One World in Schools.

youtube.com/playlist?list=…

How does YouTube combat misinformation?

youtube.com/HitPause

Jigsaw, a unit within Google that builds technology to counter threats to open societies, will partner with local experts and academics to develop approaches to both directly counter disinformation and help people more easily identify disinformation.

blog.google/inside-google/…

FactCheck.org is partnering with FB on an initiative that allows the social network’s users to report stories that they suspect are fake. The announcement came after concerns about the proliferation of fake stories during the 2016 elections.

factcheck.org/2017/07/flag-f…

The Transatlantic Working Group on Content Moderation Online is seeking adoption of scalable solutions to reduce hate speech, violent extremism & viral deception online. TWG includes gov reps, legislators, corporate & policy experts from the EU and US.

annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/project/twg/

But it is possible to tackle hate speech and disinformation without trampling on free expression, if the U.S. and Europe work together: by mandating transparency—with accountability—instead of regulating content.

annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/ness-platform-…

Conservative figures and content actually perform very well on social media sites such as Facebook, even though they disproportionately violate companies’ policies against misinformation and other abuse.

aspeninstitute.org/wp-content/upl…

Seemingly benign online communities have become breeding grounds for the kind of far-right ideology on display at the US Capitol insurrection.

thenation.com/article/societ…

Around the world, hundreds of new think tanks, fact-checking organizations, tech start-ups, and other public and private initiatives have begun working to identify, analyze, or counter influence operations.

carnegieendowment.org/2020/12/14/map…

As part of its Countering Truth Decay initiative, with support from the Hewlett Foundation, RAND researchers identified and characterized the universe of online tools developed by nonprofits and civil society organizations to target online disinformation.

rand.org/research/proje…

Tools That Fight Disinformation Online

rand.org/research/proje…

Welcome to TwitterTrails, a tool that allows members of the media to track the trustworthiness of stories shared on Twitter.

twittertrails.com

The tool can provide users with statistics on who/what has been targeting them and uses this information to build a database of political advertising and targeting.

whotargets.me/en/

Climate Science Desk, an initiative aimed at helping fact-checkers and journalists connect with scientists to review the veracity of climate change-related claims.

climatefeedback.org/science-desk/

This tool allows for the crowdsourced verification of claims submitted by university students. All information about a claim is stored and all submitted claims and questions are crowdsourced.

adpaascu.wordpress.com/category/digit…

The Get-Metadata Viewer is a web-based tool that provides users with metadata about photos, videos, and texts, including the location, time, date it was modified, format, file size, etc.

metadata2go.com

MediaBugs is a service for reporting and correcting specific errors and problems in media coverage. Once a problem is reported, the tool administrators try to engage the journalist or organization and work towards correction.

mediabugs.org

Polygraph.info is a web-based fact-checking platform that relies on journalists to research government statements & reports, along with statements by high-profile individuals. It classifies the reports based on their measure of credibility & provides additional context.

Rbutr is a collaborative online platform that is developing a database of webpages, each of which is a rebuttal of another webpage, with the goal of combating disinformation and reducing fake news.

rbutr.com

The YouTube Data Viewer is a web-based video verification tool. Users input a YouTube URL & the tool outputs information about the video that is helpful in verifying a video including upload time & thumbnails that can be used for reverse image searching.

citizenevidence.amnestyusa.org

The Reporters’ Lab maintains a database of global fact-checking sites. You can use the map to explore sites around the world .

reporterslab.org/fact-checking/

The code of principles of the International FactChecking Network is a series of commitments orgs abide by to promote excellence in fact-checking. We believe nonpartisan & transparent fact-checking can be a powerful instrument of accountability journalism.

ifcncodeofprinciples.poynter.org

There is a window of opportunity during the radicalization process where individuals who are researching extremist ideologies can be persuaded by narratives refuting them.

interventions.withgoogle.com/#redirect-meth…

Prebunking is a technique gaining prominence as a means to build preemptive resilience to misinformation. This guide was developed for practitioners interested in defending against misleading and manipulative information.

interventions.withgoogle.com/static/pdf/A_P…

With support from Whatsapp, the Spread the Facts Grant Program will give fact-checking organizations that are signatories to the IFCN Code of Principles resources to deescalate the harm of viral misinformation and improve the quality of public debate.

poynter.org/from-the-insti…

CISA helps Americans understand the scope & scale of MDM activities targeting elections & critical infrastructure, & enables them to take actions to mitigate associated risks. The MDM team was formerly known as the Countering Foreign Influence Task Force.

cisa.gov/mdm

Speculation since the start of the pandemic over the origins of the coronavirus has fueled conspiracy theories, helped spread disinformation, and been leveraged to justify violence, such as the US Capitol riots on January 6.

njohsp.gov/analysis/us-in…

It is critical for researchers, election observers, civil society organizations and ordinary people to equip themselves with tools, methods and practices to help in the collection and analysis of data from the online space.

ndi.org/sites/default/…

A site that archives data from social media platforms. Reddit, Gab, Twitter and Telegram.

pushshift.io

This tool is designed to help people discover interesting Twitter users based on specific search criteria. You can use this tool to discover Twitter users by searching for terms within the user description, location and name fields.

pushshift.io/twitter-user-s…

The Global Engagement Center (GEC) at the U.S. Department of State recommends a combined
debunking and discrediting approach, which is explained in GEC Counter-Disinformation Dispatches #2.

e.america.gov/t/ViewEmail/i/…

https://twitter.com/listen_2learn/status/1598848342980640768

This is a former policy leader at FB. This tells you how biased the platforms are.