Civics through the lens of efficacy. What can individuals do to influence their communities, their societies and their nations?
Slide deck on which you can read the entire paper.
First findings from a project to bolster trust in the political system and mainstream media, through the use of transparency.
2017, when we were just getting to grips with the terms ‘fake news’, ‘populism’ and ‘post-truth’.
CoFacts is a collaborative fact-checking project that combines a chatbot with a hoax database, integrated within LINE, a popular instant messenger app in Asia.
A modified version of iHub Kenya’s Umati project monitored and countered hate speech during the country’s elections of 2015. Learn about the link between events offline and hate speech online, that allow triggers to be identified.
Full Fact have developed a tool which can separate sentences containing claims from those that do not. This accelerates the process of fact-checking.
A behind-the-scenes look at how Facebook attempted to identify and combat coordinated attempts at manipulation and voter suppression on their platform.
Could a shift to digital accountability happen, if candidates are exposed to local and national petitions?
Nice examples of FOI being deployed in order to answer a variety of questions.
A first-person account of uncovering evidence that brought to light a national scandal in the UK.
In the era of misinformation, FOI can be used to not only discover, but also share, the truth.