CrossCheck

Our reputation for excellence is evidenced by the partnerships and trust we’ve nurtured with dozens of media mastheads in Australia – from the ABC to Australian Community Media, Crikey, The Guardian – as well as diverse, under-represented community media.

Since beginning at RMIT FactLab in 2023, we’ve extended this to new media partners, researchers and community stakeholders. This includes Indigenous language and multicultural media, and across to New Zealand with our first Māori and Chinese language projects.  

RMIT FactLab CrossCheck is a founding partner with the Information Futures Lab, Brown University. This international affiliation opens the shared knowledge and experience that comes from the core teams to CrossCheck partners.

We are a team of online verification experts who run thriving collaborative engine rooms to monitor misinformation and disinformation and alert our partners and stakeholders – preferably before it causes further damage. The best and most diverse newsrooms regularly rely on us, trusted influencers with millions of followers share our guidance. 

We conduct specialist training for media, civil society, corporate and public sector. Our training provides ongoing, systematic support and consulting services where necessary – not just 'fly in fly out' training.  We’ve trained the smallest of community newsrooms, to investigative reporting teams in Australia’s national broadcasters. 

We’ve advised on influence operations and policy making, but we’re also creative – having trained influencers, tv presenters including the comedy series Question Everything.

We also provide long form research reports and briefing documents. 

In 2023 our projects include the Indigenous Voice to Parliament Referendum and the New Zealand election.

The challenge of monitoring and responding to mis- and disinformation is exacerbated during election campaigns, and we’ll be helping our media partners in New Zealand ahead of their upcoming election. Similarly, the Voice to Parliament referendum is an easy target. False and misleading information can take many forms and it’s not always obvious – sometimes a drip feed of narratives can be just as damaging.

At CrossCheck we research into the emerging trends and harmful effects of online disinformation, conspiracy theories, hate speech and extremism. Explore a collection of our latest research and investigations reports below.

For more information on how to support our projects or enquire about training please contact anne.kruger@rmit.edu.au.