G000462 "Meedan.org"

URL: https://meedan.com/

Sector: Civil Society/NGO

Primary role: Fact checking

Secondary role: Journalism

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Region: Global

Country: USA

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Summary: Meedan.org is a nonprofit that creates tools for journalists and translators. One of its projects, Check, has focused on providing online tools and training resources for journalists to combat the spread of false or misleading information. The organization also runs a Credibility Coalition, aimed at creating a holistic framework for assessing credibility in the media context, and a Content Moderation Project, which addresses technical and theoretical issues related to the practice of content moderation online.