Here are some resources for you to learn more about how to fight fake news and disinformation.
Sites focussing on Africa
- BBC news resource:
- Africa Check:
- Piga Firimbi:
- ICIR Fact Check
- Dubawa:
- Africa Verify: (focuses on private and public sector financial information)
- ZimFact ( Zimbabwe)
- Namibia Fact check (Namibia)
- Fact Check Ghana (Ghana)
- Google Fact Check explorer
- PESA Check (East Africa)
- Spotting fake-news (South Africa)
- BBC article:
- Italian Institute for International Political Struggle (Nigeria)
- PESA check
General sites and rest of the world
- BBC Reality Check:
- Channel 4 Fact Checker
- Full Fact: ( Mainly Britain and Europe)
- Poynter Institute
- AFP Fact Check
- BBC videos
- BBC Africa Eye (investigative journalism)
- Cofacts
- Boom
- Alt News
- International News Checker
- The Dispatch
- Polygraph
- Snopes
- Fact Rackers
- Factly
- WhatsApp fact checking
- Global Investigative Journalism Network
Interactive games
- “Choose your own fake news” game by Pollicy and the Mozilla foundation
- Bad News Game
- BBC game
- Factcheck.org game
- Google Game
Other resources
- IFLA (in over 40 languages)
- The Washington Post
- The Full Fact toolkit for spotting fake news
- Huffington Post US – Recognising fake news on Facebook
- Public Data Lab (download long and detailed)
- Facebook Information
- Harvard tips
- WhatsApp Information
- The Brookings Institution
- Reducing Misinformation on FaceBook
- Facebook addressing Fake news
- How to do a reverse image search
- Six Fake News Techniques and Simple Tools to Vet Them
- What to Watch for in the Coming Wave of “Deep Fake” Videos
- How to spot Fake Images Anywhere on the Internet
- 10 Tool and Tricks to verify instagram posts
- 9 Tools for verifying images
- How to Fact-Check Politics in Countries with No Press Freedom
- How To Monitor Social Media for Misinformation
Tools and Guides
- Reverse Image search
- Reverse Image search
- Reverse Image Search
- Metadata image Information
- Metadata image information
- Jeffrey’s Image Metadata viewer
- Testing Fake News
- Digger Project (Video Manipulation – detects synthetic media)
- InVid (Detecting the reliability of video content spread in the media)
- Google Training Course – Journalism
- First Draft
- UNESCO Handbook for Journalism Education and Training
- First Draft’s Essential Guide to:
- Journalism Course – Academy- Africa
- Chrome extension- See how a link has been shared, who shared it and what they said.
- Guide to debunking deep-fakes and synthetic media
- Extension that serves to verify, provide additional sources, and cite web content.
- Advanced Twitter Search
- Metadata from Videos
- ToolBox by First Draft, for tools in finding misinformation around the web
- First Draft Visual Verification Guide
- First Draft Guide
Covid-19
- Misinformation Watch – Global
- World Health Organisation Mythbuster