Fact check, information tools, databases and archives

Description

Internet Archive is a library of millions of free books, movies, programs, music, websites and more. Don't forget to check The Wayback Machine and Archive.is.

Following a bitcoin trail or following a bitcoin account ?

Collaborative fact-checking. User guide, Bellingcat’s Check team

Search takedown notices.

Eurostat is the statistical office of the European Union situated in Luxembourg. Its mission is to provide high quality statistics for Europe. The link is for their database.

Search engine for journalists to find experts (currently only academics in USA and Canada), contact information on page, no login, 30k experts listed.

See who is requesting what under the Freedom of Information Act.

Create search strings on topics sent to your email.

Go to a world of data and create high quality graphics.

Check impact on searches. You can set several keywords against each other to find out which one generated the most search.

Post a query and experts reply, mainly USA and Canada, quality of replies is hit or miss.

List breaches. Includes a lot of different hacked databases.

Database of who-knows-who at the heights of business and government.

Collects and analyses legal complaints and requests for removal of online materials, helping Internet users to know their rights and understand the law. These data enables us to study the prevalence of legal threats and let Internet users see the source of content removals.

Search pastebin

Search engine that searches pages, images, news, PDF files, Docs, Books, EDU pages, GOV pages, Wikipedia as well as arXiv in the same search.

Search the Dark Web through Google

Academics and those with PhDs, mainly UK.

A collection of the most useful public data sources for investigative journalism compiled by OCCRP researchers.

A great place to go to find tools to verify digital information.

Download an entire website from the Wayback Machine.