GIJN: 5 Free Open Source Digital Tools to Combat Disinformation
From a Global Investigative Journalism Network Post by Marta Szpacenkopf:
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 tools created to strengthen the fight against online disinformation. 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 the tools are receiving support for networking activities to publicize the solutions.
“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).”
Learn More About Each Tool, Read the Complete Article (about 1900 words)
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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