Here's a list of the main fact checkers and myth busters in the UK [with the dae they were established].
Not For Profit Organisation
• Full Fact [2009]
• Bellingcat [2014]
• FactCheckNI [Northern Ireland, 2016]
• Ferret Fact Service [Scotland, 2017]
News Media Initiatives
• BBC 'More or Less' [2001]
• FactCheck (Channel 4) [2012]
• BBC Reality Check Team [2017]
Government Initiative
• Myth Busters Challenge Panel [2012]
Global Fact is a ‘practitioner’s conference’ where people come to “share their experiences and learn about best practices to implement in their own work.” Global Fact has doubled in size every two years since its first session in London in 2014. The link is to its last meetup, which was held online.
MisInfoCon is a “global movement focused on building solutions to online trust, verification, fact checking, and reader experience in the interest of addressing misinformation in all of its forms.” MisInfoCon started as a large gathering at MIT in Feb. 2017.
Global Experts on Debunking of Misinformation is a multi-disciplinary network of academic researchers, including specialists in ‘social media’, ‘debunking of misinformation’, ‘conspiracy theories and lack of trust’, and ‘science communication and science denial’.
DisinfoPortal.org is "a one-stop interactive online portal and guide to the Kremlin’s information war." It "aggregates open source research and journalism from the United States and Europe and presents it in a user-friendly way, with timely multimedia content produced by the Atlantic Council and its partners explaining Russia’s ongoing influence operations. The portal further complements and coordinates existing counter-disinformation efforts across the transatlantic community, offering a database of country-specific researchers and organizations who are willing to answer media inquiries and questions from government officials and other experts on disinformation threats posed by state and non-state actors."
EU vs Disinfo is a specialist unit set up in 2015 by the EU to debunk stories put out by the Kremlin or pro-Kremlin proxies (>9,000 to date). It is run by the East Stratcom Task Force, and is part of a “campaign to better forecast, address and respond to pro-Kremlin disinformation.”
The team was established after EU Heads of State and Government stressed the need to challenge Russia’s ongoing disinformation campaigns. It is part of the European External Action Service (EEAS). Its 'Disinformation Review' collects examples of pro-Kremlin disinformation sent in from a network of over 400 journalists, civil society organisations, academics and public authorities in over 30 countries. It “focuses on key messages carried in the international information space, which have been identified as providing a partial, distorted or false view or interpretation and/or spreading key pro-Kremlin messaging.”
The Atlantic Council is concerned with “confronting disinformation” and fighting for “objective truth as a foundation of democracy.” In 2017 it brought together an international network of ‘Digital Sherlocks’, researchers, reporters, activists, media, consultants and policy-makers, and they have met each year since at Open Source Summits [360/OS]. At its last 360/Open Source meeting (in London 2019) there were over 400 participants from 63 countries on six continents. [The 2020 meeting has been put back to 2021 because of Covid-19.]