Data for Democracy
Our program for fact-checkers and researchers combating misinformation
What is NewsWhip’s Data for Democracy program?
The Data for Democracy program is designed to support projects run by researchers and fact checkers by giving them discounted access to NewsWhip’s tools. The goal of this initiative is twofold — to help combat misinformation and disinformation, and to encourage improved public understanding of social content engagement.
Examples of some of the projects we have supported can be found in the timeline below.
Misinformation partnerships timeline
French election
Iffy Quotient
Oxford EU elections
Provenance project
Brazilian elections
Guatemalan elections
NewsWhip launches Data for Democracy
Chequeado
US Elections
Stanford University project
Ukraine fact-checking
EDMO project launches
French election
Iffy Quotient
Oxford EU elections
Provenance project
Brazilian elections
Guatemalan elections
NewsWhip launches Data for Democracy
Chequeado
US Elections
Stanford University project
Ukraine fact-checking
EDMO project launches
How organizations are using NewsWhip to track misinformation
FAKE NEWS & MISINFORMATION
Confirmado Guatemala
The Confirmado project, in Guatemala, run by journalist Luis Assado, began using NewsWhip to identify fake news and misleading information that is spreading at a high pace and then use that information to prioritize what to debunk, during the Guatemalan elections in 2019.
Fact-checking
Facebook Fact-Checking
NewsWhip supports a number of news organizations that are participants in Facebook’s fact-checking program. These news organizations can predictively identify which stories should be debunked, and in turn should be downgraded by Facebook in its news feed.
DISINFORMATION
Standing with Ukraine against Disinformation
The day after the invasion began, we opened up free access to NewsWhip technology under our Data for Democracy program for all fact checkers targeting Russian disinformation, journalists working the disinformation beat, and researchers trying to understand it.
Sam Dubberly,
Project Manager,
Crosscheck
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