Fact-checking Tools
Exif Viewer
Lets you open a JPG image from your computer or from a URL to view its Exif data. There’s lots of interesting information held in image files to explore. Some images have GPS data so we can see exactly where it was taken. Nikon also records the camera’s shutter count in the Exif data.
See More »LatLong
An online geographic tool that can be used to lookup latitude and longitude of a place, and get its coordinates on map. You can search for a place using a city’s or town’s name, as well as the name of special places, and the correct lat long coordinates will be shown at the bottom of the latitude longitude finder form. At that, the place you found will be displayed with the point marker centered on map. Also the gps coordinates will be displayed below the map.
See More »Verifyemailaddress
Email address verification technology from Email Hippo that connects to mailboxes and checks whether an email address exists.
See More »Mapchecking
Crowd size estimation. This tool helps you estimate (and fact-check) the maximum number of people standing in a given area.
See More »Watch Frame By Frame
Enables to watch YouTube and Vimeo videos frame by frame and in slow motion (and spot possible editing/ manipulations)
See More »RevEye Reverse Image Search
This extension allows to perform an inverse image search by right-clicking onto any image in a web site. We can choose between the image search engines Google, Bing, Yandex, TinEye and Baidu.
See More »Exif youtube
Amnesty International Youtube DataViewer, enabling to check the exact date and hour of posting of a video clip
See More »Suncalc
An app that shows sun movement and sunlight phases during the given day at the given location – thanks to that we can estimate what time a photo was taken.
See More »DNS history
Largest DNS record history database, with more than 2.2 billion nameserver changes detected, daily updated. Helps to check since when a domain has been registered and with which hosting provider.
See More »Media Bias/Fact Check
A comprehensive media bias resource on the internet. 3100+ media sources listed in its database and growing every day.
See More »This Person Does Not Exist
A website where AI generates portraits of non-existing people.
See More »JPEGsnoop
A free Windows application that examines and decodes the inner details of JPEG, MotionJPEG AVI and Photoshop files. It can also be used to analyze the source of an image to test its authenticity.
See More »Emergent
A real-time rumor tracker. It aims to develop best practices for debunking misinformation. It’s part of a research project with the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University that focuses on how unverified information and rumor are reported in the media.
See More »Factitious
This tool intended to build user skills in identifying false information in a gameified format. Using a Tinder-like format, players swipe left or right depending on if they think the news presented is real or fake. Users can get hints by looking at the source of the article. Players earn points and can progress through several levels.
See More »Bad News
This tool 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. Players win by publishing headlines that attract the most followers.
See More »Interland
The Google Interland (Be Internet Awesome game) is a web-based game focused on teaching students how to identify false and misleading information.
See More »Google Fact Check Explorer
This tool allows you to easily browse and search for fact checks. For example, you can search for a politician’s statement, or for a topic. You can also restrict results to a specific publisher.
See More »Google Fact Check Markup Tool
The goal of this tool is to make the process of creating ClaimReview markup easier, by allowing markup to be submitted via a simple web form without the need to add anything to the article itself.
See More »Botsentinel
Bot Sentinel is a free platform developed to detect and track trollbots and untrustworthy Twitter accounts. Bot Sentinel uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to study Twitter accounts, to classify them as trustworthy or untrustworthy, and to identify bots. It then stores those accounts in a database to track each account daily. 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. They review hundreds of tweets and retweets during the review process. If an account has a large number of followers and a high percentage of misleading and/or factually incorrect tweets, they might classify that account as untrustworthy.
See More »Botcheck
Botcheck.me is a browser extension that utilizes machine learning to identify political propaganda bots on twitter.
See More »Captain Fact
CaptainFact is a web-based 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 and contextual information, as well as icons showing the credibility based on user votes. It also has a “debate platform” that allows for discussions of specific points. While currently focused on video, they are developing a tool to provide a similar overlay to articles.
See More »ClaimBuster
ClaimBuster is a web-based automated, live fact-checking tool developed by University of Texas at Arlington. The tool relies on natural language processing and supervised learning (based on a human-coded dataset) to identify factual and false information. There is also an app available for Slack.
See More »Climate Feedback
Climate Feedback is a web-based content annotation tool that allows scientists to annotate articles to provide additional context and draw attention to inaccuracies. The process results in a credibility score.
See More »Dirt Protocol
DIRT is a blockchain verification tool that allows communities to moderate data, such that anyone is able to add data to the platform and any user can then challenge that data. Users earn tokens by identifying and correcting errors. Thus, there is an economic incentive for data to always be improving and for inaccurate data to be removed from the platform.
See More »Climate Feedback
Climate Feedback is a web-based content annotation tool that allows scientists to annotate articles to provide additional context and draw attention to inaccuracies. The process results in a credibility score.
See More »Dirt Protocol
DIRT is a blockchain verification tool that allows communities to moderate data, such that anyone is able to add data to the platform and any user can then challenge that data. Users earn tokens by identifying and correcting errors. Thus, there is an economic incentive for data to always be improving and for inaccurate data to be removed from the platform.
See More »Disinformation Index
The Global Disinformation Index is a web-based tool that rates news outlets based on the “probability of disinformation on a specific media outlet.” This rating system will cover all types of media, and will be a real time score.
See More »Duke Videofactchecking Tool
The Duke Videofactchecking Tool is a browser extension that will provide live factchecking of information on television. It was assessed by the developers using user-based experiments. Users generally liked having the pop-ups generated by this tool, although they differed on whether they preferred getting a “rating” or just the raw factual information.
See More »Exifdata
Exifdata is a web-based tool that provides information about the source, timestamp, creation and modification information.
See More »Fakey
Fakey is a web-based interactive educational tool designed to improve media literacy. It presents news stories that incorporate characteristics of clickbait, fake news, conspiracy theories, etc. Users are then asked to choose to share, hide, or fact-check that information. The goal is to provide users with experience identifying true v. false information.
See More »Get-Metadata Viewer
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.
See More »Glorious Contextubot
The Glorious Contexubot is a verification and fact-checking tool that identifies the sources of audio and video content.
See More »Hoaxy (Observatory on Social Media)
Hoaxy is 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. Overall, the IU Observatory on Social Media is interested in studying and better understanding how information is shared online. They are also interested in studying how social media affects public discourse
See More »Information Operations Archive
This tool is an archive of publicly available and attributed data from known online information operations from public and non-deleted tweets on Twitter and Reddit attributed to Russian and Iranian actors. The archive currently consists of over 10 million messages from Russian and Iranian state-sponsored influence operations on Twitter and Reddit, and will be updated on an ongoing basis.
See More »KnowNews
Lead Stories FactChecker
LeadStories is a web-based fact-checking platform that identifies false or misleading stories, rumors, and conspiracies by using its Trendolizer technology to identify trending content that is then fact-checked by their team of journalists.
See More »MediaBias Ratings
Metapicz
Securo is a web-based verification tool that provides information about the source, timestamp, creation, and modification information.
See More »Newstrition
PolitiFact
Politifact is a website that fact-checks “newsworthy and significant” statements and rates these statements as “True,” “Mostly True,” “Half True,” “Mostly False,” “False,” and “Pants on Fire.” The process involves reviewing other fact-checking sources, Google searches, online database seraches, expert consultation, and other literature reviews.
See More »Public Editor
Rbutr
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. It does not distinguish between true or false, it just identifies rebuttals to provide users with a more diverse set of perspectives.
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