This page provides up-to-date resources for civil society on urgent and important issues happening around the world.
This document provides a vision for a pan-civil societal response to online manipulation: developing the capability to detect it; the coalitions to confront it; the strategies to prevent it, and the structures of cooperation and funding needed.
Authors: Carl Miller and Chloe Colliver
Published by ISD
13/08/2020
Full Fact publishes a report based on their experience of fact checking the pandemic.
Author: Rebeca Hill
28/01/2021
In 2019 Africa Check started “What’s Crap” on WhatsApp. They use the voice note feature, record and edit short audio notes, and distribute them via their broadcast lists. This has been a fun and accessible way for people to engage with their resources. They published a handbook on how everyone can do this.
01/02/2019
InterAction developed a Disinformation Toolkit that offers a baseline of definitions and different practices to guide organisations on how to address disinformation attacks based on 5 WHs: Who, what, when, where and why. The toolkit further lays out advantages and disadvantages of countering an online attack.
01/06/2018
Analysis of rumours should include what caused the rumour and what can be learned from it, assessing the rumour as actionable information and defining a way forward. A rumour-tracking methodology published by Internews is a good starting point of assessing rumours and their impacts.
01/07/2019
The disinformation starter kit published by ISD lays out an approach that organisations can undertake to begin to track online disinformation on subjects that they care about.
13/08/2020
This is a curriculum for educators in formal and informal education environments. It provides step-by-step guidance and interactive exercises for helping learners of all ages recognise why and how manipulative content works and gain skills to reject half-truths, clickbait, hate speech, and fakes.
Published by IREX
07/02/2021
This project focuses around the emerging and potential malicious uses of so-called “deepfakes” and other forms of AI-generated “synthetic media” and how we push back to defend evidence, the truth and freedom of expression from a global, human rights-led perspective.
Published by WITNESS Media Lab
01/02/2018
Learn what the key technologies are, what threats deepfakes pose to civil society and what global civil society should prioritise and engage on.
Published by WITNESS Media Lab
30/07/2020
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