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Digital Activism Toolkit Part 3 Top 5 Tools For Countering

Bonisiwe Shabane
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digital activism toolkit part 3 top 5 tools for countering

AI makes it easier to create disinformation, false or decontextualized content, and to spread it quickly through existing channels. (Photo: Canva) In an information ecosystem where misinformation circulates faster than fact-checkers can respond, increasingly precise and efficient tools are needed to verify content, detect hoaxes and understand how false narratives spread. The following list brings together five tools that media outlets and fact-checking organizations use for tasks ranging from tracking disinformation and analyzing its dissemination patterns, to recovering deleted content and analyzing audiovisual material. Fact Check Explorer allows users to insert a phrase, piece of data or a link to check if someone has already verified it. (Photo: Screenshot)

Google has developed an ecosystem of fact-checking tools, some for fact-checkers specifically and others for the general public. The flagship tool is Fact Check Explorer, a specialized search engine that compiles claim reviews from multiple fact-checking organizations worldwide, including Chequeado (Argentina), Bolivia Verifica (Bolivia), El Sabueso (Mexico) and Cotejo.info (Venezuela). Our digital activism toolkit provides digital tools for activists to garner support for causes and create inclusive campaigns that connect large communities. Although activism is accessible to everyone at any time, the tools and skills required to be effective may seem abstract. That is why this toolkit will equip you with all the resources, advice, and ideas you need to get started! This toolkit is designed to provide you with a set of comprehensive resources, advice, and ideas that will help you start your journey to advocate for a cause you are passionate about.

Everyone! The toolkit is made for anyone who is looking for ways to advocate for causes they are passionate about, but is not sure how to navigate activism. Activism is accessible to anyone at any time, and we are aiming to find ways to equip everyone with the necessary tools and skills. Where to start organizing:Powerful activism often begins at the grassroots level. You might think you need to act on a national or global scale, but starting with your local community can lead to profound change! Organizing actions:From posting on social media to contacting your representatives, there are tons of ways to be an activist.

It can be intimidating to start taking action and encouraging others to do so, too. The toolkit contains information on how to start taking action and ideas on how to expand your activism in your community. Several news outlets across Brazil are participating in the Codesinfo project to produce digital tools to fight disinformation. Image: Screenshot, Codesinfo Brazil’s Institute for the Development of Journalism, or Projor for its initials in Portuguese, launched the second phase of the Innovation Fund to Combat Disinformation (Codesinfo), focused on the dissemination of five open-source digital... Developed by Brazilian media outlets in late 2024, the solutions are available free of charge to any journalistic organization inside and outside Brazil.

To reach international media outlets, Francisco Belda, Projor’s director of operations and coordinator of Codesinfo, said that the Codesinfo website is being translated into English and Spanish and the partner media outlets that created... “We believe that the five tools strengthen civic journalism in general,” Belda told LatAm Journalism Review (LJR). “This is due to their role in valuing the concept of authorship (Quem Disse? tool), fact-checking (Check-up), scientific evidence in environmental and climate change coverage (Capí chatbot), production of short videos based on textual reports (Mosaico) and in the provision of updated contextual information (Xarta).” Capí is an artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Ambiental Media that was launched in beta version in November 2024. The tool’s purpose is to provide clear, up-to-date, and reliable answers to users’ questions on climate issues.

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