Online Toolkits and Resources
- Understanding Dangerous Speech: “Dangerous Speech is any form of expression (speech, text, or images) that can increase the risk that its audience will condone or participate in violence against members of another group.”
- Dangerous speech is a concept created by Prof. Susan Benesch, and it has been mentioned by Facebook when discussing it’s content standards: ‘Semantics derived automatically from language corpora contain human-like biases’
Fake news, disinformation, and data manipulation
- Data-Craft- the manipulation of social media to game algorithms (scroll to bottom for helpful guide for non-specialists)
Bot detection materials
- Botometer, Indiana University
- Bot Sentinel
- Botcheck.me
- Newsbot (for bot swarms around given news or topics)Knight Foundation visualization-video about bot-traffic
Dark ads and Fake News identification tools
- ProPublica Facebook Political DARK-Ad Collector from the Chrome Web Store or the Mozilla Add-ons Store
- SafeSurf
- Reuters News Tracer: “the tool combines algorithms which merge artificial intelligence with the human intelligence of Reuters journalists”
- figure how the Facebook algorithm works, to what extent it deform, shape, “curates” or possibly censor the information you receive.
- Disinformation kits
- A guide to anti-misinformation actions around the world
- Overview of US case law on rights of journalistic sources versus public good/state inquiry
- Reporters Without Frontiers guide to Journalist Safety in High-Risk Contexts (144 page PDF)
- Open Letter on FAKE NEWS in latin america
