These tools enable people to see the details behind their social media feeds. Some of them offer to identify disinformation as it’s happening, while others are intended for individual social media users to understand how they may be targeted by disinformation. Understanding the source of information is crucial to understanding the intent of that information.
Amnesty YouTube DataViewer: Provides metadata to determine the origins of a YouTube video.
Analysis of Twitter Accounts: Characterizes a Twitter account’s behavior (retweets, languages, etc.).
BlogTracker: A system for analyzing the origins and dynamics of blog activity.
Boardreader: Searches forums and message boards.
Botometer: Scores a Twitter account based on how likely it’s a bot.
Ctrlq.org/first/: Identifies the originator of a tweet.
Facebook Help Center: Tells users if they interacted with a Russian IRA bot during the 2016 US elections.
Fakeoff: Identifies fake profiles in one’s own Facebook network.
Global Disinformation Index: An initiative to automate risk ratings of media sites.
Google Reverse Image Search: Offers the history of an image’s uses online.
Hamilton68: An effort by the Alliance for Securing Democracy to monitor Russian bot activity on Twitter.
Hoaxy: Visualizes information spread on social media and online, and scores bot likelihood.
InVID: A plug-in for validating video content.
Sightengine: Recognizes images commonly used by scammers and fraudsters.
socialbakers: A suite of free tools, including persona mapping, influencer identification, and social media performance tracking.
Socialmention: Social media search in real time.
Surfsafe: A Chrome extension that identifies known faked imagery.
Tagscout: Offers an Instagram fake follower assessment.
Talkwalker: Tracks campaigns and hashtags.
TinEye Reverse Image Search: Finds where an image has been online.
Truepic: A blockchain-enabled imagery authentication app.
Twitter Audit: Identifies fake Twitter followers (charges after first use).
YouTube Tracker: A system for analyzing the origins and dynamics of YouTube content.
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