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Anti-vaccination websites employ vast configurations of ad, social media and analytics trackers to drive traffic, build audiences and monetize misinformation.
Learn more about Hispachan, a relatively new imageboard for Spanish speakers.
New social media platforms are popping up every day, and you might be interested in joining them to inform your work.
A series of articles that each share an important lesson learned about the challenges of disrupting misinformation in 2020.
Research report: Competing vaccine narratives across English, Spanish and Francophone social media
We've launched several new ways to keep up to date with the election and harmful misinformation surrounding it.
As the pandemic spreads in Latin America, some Christian communities find themselves caught between faith and science.
Geopolitical and nationalist narratives have been playing out in different communities, fomenting false information around treatments and cures for the coronavirus.
First Draft is excited to announce the 2020-21 US Board of Directors. Each member comes to the board with a wide range of expertise.
Manipulated photos and videos flood our social media platforms. With PAI, we provide guidance for labelling them.
How to use social media to report on the protests over police brutality and structural racism sweeping the world.
Project leads Claire Leibowicz and Claire Wardle detail the next steps in new approaches to tackling mis- and disinformation.
Events, webinars and resources have been central to efforts helping newsrooms prepare for the convergence of elections and pandemic.
As the world looks for timely, accurate news about the novel coronavirus, how can journalists best provide their audiences the information they need?
The project will build capacity and encourage collaboration in local news ecosystems where disinformation is likely to flourish.
Kate Starbird is an Associate Professor at the University of Washington's Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering and co-founder of the UW Center for an Informed Public.
Renee DiResta, technical research manager at Stanford Internet Observatory, looks back at 2019.
Sérgio Lüdtke is the editor of Comprova, a collaborative reporting project supported by First Draft and Abraji. Based in Sao Paulo, he oversees different newsrooms monitoring misinformation and disinformation across Brazil.
Kevin Nguyen, a digital forensics reporter and producer with ABC, is an expert in digital verification based in Sydney.
Mike Caulfield is the head of the Digital Polarization Initiative of the American Democracy Project, a national project to build web literacy among the American public.
Lam Thuy Vo, senior reporter for BuzzFeed News, shares her thoughts on 2019 and the intersection of technology, society and social media.
Ramsha Jahangir is a journalist at Pakistan’s Dawn newspaper specialising in technology, data and human rights.
Masato Kajimoto, assistant professor of practice at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at The University of Hong Kong, gives his thoughts on 2019.
Eliot Higgins founder and executive director of investigative-journalism group Bellingcat, looks back at the big issues of 2019 and how media manipulation has developed.
Lee Mwiti is the chief editor of Africa Check, the continent's first independent fact-checking website. He focuses on fact checking misinformation across several African countries from Johannesburg, where he is based.
Karen Rebelo is deputy editor at BOOM, India's online platform for fact-driven journalism and fact checking. She is a specialist in disinformation, fact checking and open-source intelligence.
Separate incidents surrounding events at Leeds General Infirmary sent social media into a tailspin — but neither was true, writes researcher Marc Owen Jones.
Craig Newmark Philanthropies joins Google News Initiative in supporting organization’s mission to reach every journalist in every state
Comprova was launched in response to plummeting trust in the Brazilian media, which dropped by 17% between 2017 and 2018
In Brazil, the Comprova project's tipline amassed one of the largest known WhatsApp data sets around elections. Here's what we learned.
An ambitious, collaborative journalism project that focused on verifying or debunking questionable stories published on social media.
A conversation with Glenn Kessler, editor of The Fact Checker, about their project to create a ‘universal vocabulary’ for labelling video manipulation.
Meg Kanofski, a journalism student at the University of Technology Sydney, describes a day’s work with First Draft as the 2019 Australian election approached.
More than 130 Argentinian media organisations to tackle information disorder regarding the electoral process in the run up to Argentina's general election in October 2019
Beginning with the Australian federal election, our Sydney bureau is working with newsrooms and academic institutions to collaboratively investigate information disorder on the new Crosscheck platform
First Draft is building a digital team to inform the next generation of journalists, raise awareness of our work and build our communities online and offline
Comprobado will investigate instances of mis- and disinformation in the lead-up to the Spanish general election on April 28 and beyond
A response to the new report from the EU Commission's High Level Expert Group on Fake News, “A Multi-Dimensional Approach to Disinformation”
20 articles that illustrate how the fight against information disorder changed in 2017
In-depth interviews and surveys found that the collaboration was credible, and taught verification skills
Our new report for the Council of Europe aims to bring structure to conversations about misleading and malicious information
Our new course teaches students how to verify photos or videos online so they don't fall for hoaxes, rumors and misinformation in their reporting
Here’s what we have accomplished in our first two years and what’s ahead
The Knight Prototype Fund will support First Draft and Dr. Lisa Fazio from Vanderbilt University in researching our online verification newsroom
Monitoring online conversations revealed a serious problem with the sharing of misleading campaign information
Our blueprint for journalists on responding to newsworthy conversations and stemming the flow of misinformation
CrossCheck is a collaborative verification project that will help voters to make sense of what and who to trust online
First Draft's practical tips and best practice in social newsgathering and verification are now available to a wider audience around the world
The Electionland national reporting project will empower newsrooms with innovative technology to cover voting in real time
