Tools Against Disinformation

This is part of Individual Tactics to Counter Disinformation

How to Guides:

Bellingcat:

https://www.bellingcat.com/category/resources/how-tos/

Exposing the Invisible has a guide for open source investigators called "the kit":

https://exposingtheinvisible.org/

First Draft News quick guide to OSINT:

https://firstdraftnews.org/latest/how-to-get-started-in-online-investigations-with-open-source-intelligence-osint/

Amnesty International Citizens Lab how to guide:

https://citizenevidence.org/category/tools/

Counter Disinfo offers a wide variety of tools on disinformation with a particular emphasis on Central Europe. It also has how to guides on creating counter-narrative campaigns:

https://counterdisinfo.org/

A book on Information verification during ongoing events:

http://verificationhandbook.com/

Monitoring:

You can visualize the spread of claims over social media through Hoaxy:

https://hoaxy.osome.iu.edu/

Crowdtangle:

https://www.crowdtangle.com/

Graphika can help you map social media environments:

https://graphika.com/

Gephi has free open sourced software for the visualization of campaigns:

https://gephi.org/

DNSlytics can help trace suspicious ads and other commercial content:

https://dnslytics.com/

You can check if accounts are bots through this website:

https://botometer.osome.iu.edu/

Trending Topics around the Globe:

http://www.belgium.trendolizer.com/

Whopostedwhat, A non public Facebook keyword search that can be filtered by date:

https://whopostedwhat.com/

Domain name checker:

https://whois.net/

Databases of Tools:

Here are a list of Open Source Tools that was compiled by RAND covering, Bot/Spam detection, Codes and Standards, Credibility Scoring, Disinformation Tracking, Education/Training, Verification, Whitelisting:

https://www.rand.org/research/projects/truth-decay/fighting-disinformation.html#learn-more-about-truth-decay-

This github is based on Bellingcat and forensicswiki.org:

https://github.com/ivbeg/awesome-forensicstools#online-security-and-privacy

OSINT Tools

The OSINT Framework contains a variety of ONSIT tools, though some may require payments:

https://osintframework.com/

Here is Bellingcat's list of OSINT tools which you can use: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18rtqh8EG2q1xBo2cLNyhIDuK9jrPGwYr9DI2UncoqJQ/edit#gid=1700243466

Bellingcat overall investigation Toolkit:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18rtqh8EG2q1xBo2cLNyhIDuK9jrPGwYr9DI2UncoqJQ/edit#gid=930747607

A variety of online forensics tools at:

https://forensicswiki.xyz/page/Main_Page

Risk of Disinformation Based on Media Environment

Interaction Developed this tool to assess the vulnerability of a media environment to disinformation, the tool is on page 25:

https://www.interaction.org/documents/disinformation-toolkit/