Triaging and Countering AI-Powered Disinformation and Influence Operations¶
A practitioner reference for triaging suspected AI-generated content and running counter-disinformation work in Southeast and South Asia. The toolkit serves fact-checkers, OSINT investigators, and civil society staff across six focus countries: Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. Detection on its own does not resolve a case, so the material is organised around a four-signal workflow – provenance, source-history, behaviour, and cautious-detector – with detector verdicts treated as one weak signal among others.
Using this toolkit: online or local
Most readers need nothing more than a web browser. You are already using the toolkit by reading this site, with no install step and no command to run. The local-setup line in the repository README is only for running or building the toolkit on your own machine, for offline use. It installs MkDocs Material and serves the pages at a local web address.
How to read this toolkit¶
Three reading paths, depending on what brought you in.
A practitioner orienting to the tool landscape starts at Tool cards, a pivot view of the sixty-five tools the toolkit references, organised by outline cell. Each tool links to a one-page card with what it does, access model, language coverage, known limitations, and regional relevance. Read this first if the question is "what is in the toolkit"; the pillar pages then walk through how the tools fit together in practice.
A practitioner with a specific case in queue enters through Pillar 1 detection and triage or Pillar 2 counter-disinformation work, steps down the tier ladder from First-Line Triage to Professional Verification to Institutional-Level Analysis, and returns to the tool cards as the case warrants. The decision trees cover image, video, audio, provenance, and tipline routing as flowcharts.
A practitioner orienting to the regional landscape enters through the country pages and follows the links into the cells most relevant to that country's information environment. The country pages are paired where the structural comparison is informative: Sri Lanka and Laos under the honest-gap policy, Indonesia and Malaysia across the Bahasa-Malay border, the Philippines and Thailand on detection versus provenance emphasis.
Digital safety, platforms, and methodology sit across all three paths. Read the digital-safety pages before any source-handling work; the platform pages aggregate platform-specific guidance that the tool cards reference; the methodology layer documents the editorial system at the depth a partner needs to extend or contest it.
Running a workshop, a coalition meeting, or newsroom onboarding? The facilitator note suggests a running order, so you do not have to plan a session from scratch.
Query the whole toolkit with an AI assistant
You can load the entire toolkit into an AI notebook and ask it questions in plain language. Paste the repository URL into gitingest to get a single combined text file, then add that file as a source in NotebookLM and query it there. No special setup is needed.
Repository URL to paste: https://github.com/denis989/ipmr-toolkit
What this toolkit is not¶
It is not a directory of AI detectors or a procurement catalogue. The four-signal workflow treats provenance, source-history, behaviour, and detector output as separate evidence classes; at least two non-detector signals are required before any strong public claim. Regional gaps are named where they exist: there is no Lao-capable audio detector at first-line tier, Sinhala and Tamil coverage runs asymmetrically across the inventory, and no IFCN signatory operates in Laos. The toolkit documents these absences as part of the operating picture, not as caveats to be smoothed over.
Project and contact¶
The toolkit is published under the IPMR project (Enhancing Indo-Pacific Media Resilience), implemented by Internews Europe with financial support from the European Union. Produced by Denis Yagodin (den.yagodin@gmail.com). A print-friendly PDF is generated from the same Markdown source for offline use. Download the latest PDF.
This publication was produced with the financial support of the European Union. Its contents are the sole responsibility of Internews Europe and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Union.