Resources
Check First produces a variety of content, from articles to webinars and training. Below is a repository of our public resources, created during the execution of our various projects.
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Operation Overload: An AI fuelled escalation of the Kremlin-linked propaganda effort
The Russian propaganda operation targeted at media organisations and fact-checkers is still going strong. Operation Overload, which we first documented in June 2024 is now leveraging AI generated content, impersonation techniques and is expanding to more platforms such as TikTok and BlueSky. Telegram and direct emails to newsrooms remain a daily dissemination technique used to attempt to create a sense of urgency amongst their targets. Since we last published an update about the operation last September, some legitimate outlets regularly fall in the trap.
Check First to join the EFCSN working commitee
The European Fact-Checking Standards Network Project is an effort to bring together fact-checking and open-source intelligence (OSINT) organisations to discuss and define the standards of independence, transparency and methodological and journalistic quality that must guide our efforts to combat disinformation.
22vla la pub: a new tool to monitor political advertising on social media
Check First is launching 22vlalapub.fr, a tool for monitoring advertising around candidates, their parties, and campaign themes related to the
the French presidential election of 2022 on the platforms of Meta
“Don’t open the door to disinformation”: reject the media exemption in the DSA
Check First, along with 50 other fact-checking organizations, NGO or researchers, reject the proposition of a media exemption in the DSA.
Introduction to the CrossOver project
Crossover is a European project to monitor, analyse and combat algorithmic disinformation.
ODIL, le podcast
ODIL, the podcast, is a series of interviews with actors in the fight against disinformation in the Francophonie.
The FACT bluepaper
the FACT network, a new blockchain with a token-based incentive mechanism for a decentralised global information verification system and database network. The FACT network aims to solve various challenges the information industry faces today.
Who is ODIL?
ODIL, the platform of Francophone initiatives tackling disinformation, brings together anti-disinformation initiatives in the Francophone area.
CLARIN Hackathon on COVID-19 Related Disinformation
In the autumn of 2020, CLARIN organises a virtual hackathon on the detection of disinformation in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.