{"id":4171,"date":"2020-03-06T14:01:14","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T14:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=4171"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:19:26","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:19:26","slug":"fighting-disinformation-online-building-the-database-of-web-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2020\/03\/06\/fighting-disinformation-online-building-the-database-of-web-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting Disinformation Online: Building the Database of Web Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rand.org%2Fpubs%2Ftools%2FTL323.html&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7C8a82f353fa0241240b4208d7bc3c4762%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C0%7C637184839400341111&amp;sdata=xueIZwRFiyrybXXhBi9Kps3RHgDhfJEluV1zxOOdCmo%3D&amp;reserved=0\">A new report from think tank Rand <\/a>\u00a0describes the <a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rand.org%2Fresearch%2Fprojects%2Ftruth-decay%2Ffighting-disinformation.html&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7C8a82f353fa0241240b4208d7bc3c4762%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C0%7C637184839400351097&amp;sdata=9ZnLF%2FmDeK16unovCQfX9RPGgLajGP6JMK3RNjyn12A%3D&amp;reserved=0\">building of the database<\/a> which has links to useful sources for researchers on detecting spam, codes, credibility scoring, disinformation tracking, verification and education.<br \/>\nAlso released this week a report from <a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fafricacheck.org%2F2020%2F02%2F20%2Fhelping-the-truth-catch-up-full-fact-africa-check-and-chequeado-turn-to-research-to-fight-bad-information%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7C8a82f353fa0241240b4208d7bc3c4762%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C0%7C637184839400351097&amp;sdata=N0joDrV%2FTOPJUAAncs8RkC%2BHpSKWAe3ZXtuXpIJWGfI%3D&amp;reserved=0\">Fullfact.org and Africa Check<\/a> which includes information resources and an excellent report entitled: <a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fafricacheck.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2020%2F02%2FEN-Media-info-literacy.pdf&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7C8a82f353fa0241240b4208d7bc3c4762%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C1%7C637184839400361093&amp;sdata=wsM44n2utXVyI2cFT9wZQKXkFHfFkA9DUqNrX%2FcAz3k%3D&amp;reserved=0\">Media\u00a0 and information literacy: Lessons from interventions around the world<\/a>. It has three case studies from Uganda Argentina and the UK on the role good teachers can play in teaching children to find real facts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report from think tank Rand \u00a0describes the building of the database which has links to useful sources for researchers on detecting spam, codes, credibility scoring, disinformation tracking, verification and education. Also released this week a report from Fullfact.org and Africa Check which includes information resources and an excellent report entitled: Media\u00a0 and information [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[17,236,61,241,71],"class_list":["post-4171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-media-and-communication","tag-africa","tag-education","tag-internet","tag-media-and-communication","tag-new-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4172,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171\/revisions\/4172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}