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Our projects reach across communities and contexts to share insights about health communications, global digital media literacy, and how content moderation affects marginalized communities.
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Report: ‘Shouting Into the Void’

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Gaza crisis response

Crisis Response
In concert with our regional partners, Meedan implemented a wide range of tech-enabled crisis-response strategies in Gaza.
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Mobilizing Public Health Professionals to Support Journalists and Fact-Checkers During the Covid-19 Pandemic

2021
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Understanding factors and barriers to alternative media development in emerging economies: Learning from the Check Global project

January 2021
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Tiplines to uncover misinformation on encrypted platforms: a case study of the 2019 Indian general election on WhatsApp

January 2022
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The Empty Signifier Problem: Towards Clearer Paradigms for Operationalising 'Alignment' in Large Language Models

November 2023
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The Past, Present and Better Future of Feedback Learning in Large Language Models for Subjective Human Preferences and Values

December 2023
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The Syrian Archive Digital Memory Project: Archiving as Testimony, as Evidence, as Creative Practice

February 2024
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Analyzing Misinformation Claims During the 2022 Brazilian General Election on WhatsApp, Twitter, and Kwai

May 2024
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SynDy: Synthetic Dynamic Dataset Generation Framework for Misinformation Tasks

May 2024
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The PRISM Alignment Project: What Participatory, Representative and Individualised Human Feedback Reveals About the Subjective and Multicultural Alignment of Large Language Models

In Progress
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Gendered disinformation: Deepening perspectives and designing responses

Safe & Inclusive Media Ecosystems
The project will help advance understanding of the online spread of gendered disinformation and design responses to counter it in South Asia.
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Turkey-Syria earthquake crisis response

Crisis Response
In early 2023, parts of Turkey and Syria were devastated by an earthquake. Find out how Meedan worked with partners on the ground to fill information needs.
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Emergency Funding and Support

Crisis Response
Providing timely financial assistance and comprehensive support services.
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🇺🇲 United States election 2016

Elections
Collaborative project held during the 2016 U.S. elections to report on voting access. We added 1,200 reports to Check.
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🇲🇽 Mexico election 2018

Elections
Over 100 journalists in Mexico worked to fact-check claims and monitor misinformation about the electoral process.
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🇮🇳 India election 2021

Elections
A team of fact-checkers convened to debunk misinformation ahead of Indian elections and trained more than 350 students.
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🇫🇷 France election 2022

Elections
Journalists at Agence France-Presse had 2,000 conversations with social media users, which led to more than 900 fact-checks published to audiences.
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🇵🇭 Philippines election 2022

Elections
140+ organizations produced more than 1,500 fact-checks that were distributed to audiences and analyzed by academics.
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🇧🇷 Brazil election 2022

Elections
Fact-checkers fielded 335,000 questions and requests collected across four WhatsApp tiplines, hosted by Meedan on Check.
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Gendered Health Misinformation

Digital Health Lab
Addressing gendered health misinformation related to Pregnancy and Infant Care, Gender-Affirming Care and Abortion
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Independent Media Response Fund

Crisis Response
Addressing global challenges with hyperlocal communities.
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Claim Matching Beyond English to Scale Global Fact-Checking

Research
In this paper, we discuss claim matching as a possible solution to scale fact-checking.
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Health Desk

Crisis Response
In 2020, Meedan built on its existing expertise to address public health information needs around the world. Learn about the Health Desk initiative.
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Content Moderation Toolkit

A common vocabulary and methodology for content moderation as a toolkit for civil society and platforms alike grappling with these issues.
Civil Society
Toolkit
Social media

NAWA Investigative Fund

Check Global
The NAWA Investigative Fund is our standard open route to funding small projects or investigative works, and has been operating in this way since 2019.
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COVID-19 Microgrants Fund 2020

Crisis Response
Support during the pandemic
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Beirut Response Fund 2022

Crisis Response
Crisis funding to independent media
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Credibility Coalition

Research
The Credibility Coalition brings people together to develop common standards for information credibility.
2017 – present
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Cryptochat

Research
Developing opt-in approaches for communities to share misinformation on end-to-end encrypted platforms.
2020
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Co·Insights

Safe & Inclusive Media Ecosystems
Meedan’s research project in partnership with Asian-American and Pacific Islander communities narrows the gap between research into misinformation and responses designed to curb it.
2021-Present
Research
Practice
Civil Society

2020 Misinfodemic Report: COVID-19 in Emerging Economies

Check Global
8-part series of reporting and analysis in an effort to map the anatomy of the global COVID-19 information ecosystem.
Emerging Economies
Report

Online harassment and digital security

Digital Health Lab
Making your online experience secure and safe
Training
Social media

Fact-checking on encrypted platforms

WhatsApp 3PFC Pilot
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Fact-checking
Training

Ekta

WhatsApp 3PFC Pilot
Ekta is a consortium of six fact-checking groups in India that came together in early 2021 to address election misinformation in the country.
2021-present
Social media
Fact-checking
Network

Health Fact-Checking Trainings

Digital Health Lab
We are training fact-checkers at all levels on how to responsibly handle health misinformation.
Fact-checking
Training

Health Equity through Health Fact-checking

Digital Health Lab
Primer on the history of fact-checking and traditional success metrics of fact-checking initiatives, which largely respond to the attention economy.
Research
Fact-checking
Report

Check Global Funding

Check Global
We provide funding opportunities for organisations, collectives, journalists and activists as a contribution to their ongoing efforts for advocacy and sustainability.
2017–present
Network

Check Global Network

Check Global
Network

Check Global Partners

Check Global
Network
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