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Civics through the lens of efficacy. What can individuals do to influence their communities, their societies and their nations?

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Civic engagement: the paradox of crowdsourcing lies
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Slide deck on which you can read the entire paper.

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Media coverage and elections: tracking news stories on politicians
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First findings from a project to bolster trust in the political system and mainstream media, through the use of transparency.

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Populism, post-truth and fake news: the role of civic tech in the post-fact world
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2017, when we were just getting to grips with the terms ‘fake news’, ‘populism’ and ‘post-truth’.

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CoFacts: the chatbot that combats misinformation
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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.

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Diverting hate speech with simple online tools
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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.

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Identifying checkable claims with machine learning
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Full Fact have developed a tool which can separate sentences containing claims from those that do not. This accelerates the process of fact-checking.

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Preventing abuse on Facebook during the 2018 US midterm elections
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A behind-the-scenes look at how Facebook attempted to identify and combat coordinated attempts at manipulation and voter suppression on their platform.

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Accountability through petitions: elections 2019
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Could a shift to digital accountability happen, if candidates are exposed to local and national petitions?

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How many rubber bands the Royal Mail uses, and other amazing facts revealed through FOI
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Nice examples of FOI being deployed in order to answer a variety of questions.

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Truth & justice for haemophiliacs: WhatDoTheyKnow and the contaminated blood scandal
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A first-person account of uncovering evidence that brought to light a national scandal in the UK.

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WhatDoTheyKnow as fact-checker
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In the era of misinformation, FOI can be used to not only discover, but also share, the truth.

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