Fake news. It's complicated.

By Claire Wardle, First Draft News Research Director

How to begin to monitor social media for misinformation

Here are tactics and tools to help make the task of monitoring social media more manageable for journalists.

Types of misinformation during the UK election

Monitoring online conversations revealed a serious…

Monitoring social media for misinformation, part two

How to sift through misinformation to make a…

Why we need to understand misinformation through visuals

Technologists are focused on text-based misinformation, but visual misinformation is often more popular

Announcing New Research: “A Field Guide to Fake News”

We’re excited to announce support for new…

One year on, we’re still not recognizing the complexity of information disorder online

Our report for the Council of Europe provides a new definitional framework for information disorder, overviews…

10 questions to ask before covering mis- and dis-information

When, how and why do we report on rumors and fabricated content?

Is that actually true? Combining fact-checking and verification for #GE17

How First Draft and Full…

Misinformation and hate speech in Myanmar

Here’s what happened when a country went from limited news to smartphones almost overnight