Meta uses AI to find teens pretending to be adults and place them in more restricted Teen Accounts. Plus proactive notifications to their parents' accounts.

• youth
• Meta

• Artificial Intelligence
• Digital security and privacy
• Civic features

This brings critical, time-sensitive information directly to people's For You feeds to raise awareness of missing children and leverage the power of the US TikTok community to help reunite them with their families.

• TikTok

• Civic features

Open and accessible tools that put safety back in the hands of the people

• youth

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Governance of AI

This new badge is designed to highlight apps that prioritize user privacy and safety, help users make more informed choices about the VPN apps they use, and build confidence in the apps they ultimately download.

• apps
• Google

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity
• Civic features

"Google can turn your Discover feed into an AI-generated podcast" - The Verge

• Google

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media
• Journalism

As an administrator for your organization, you’ll receive an alert if a user is detected as a possible victim of a government-backed attack.

• Google

• Civic features
• Cybersecurity

A civic feature that helps Americans find out to vote right from within Google Search, in partnership with VIP and Democracy Works

• Google

• Voting and elections
• Civic features
• Find your polling place

Official Reddit account to help you Up The Vote. Learn how to get registered, understand voting options and deadlines, and make your voice count.

• Reddit
• US Election 2024

• Voting and elections
• Civic features
• Voter registration

Like X and YouTube, China's Weibo platform instituted community notes annotations to fight disinformation on the platform.

• Fight disinformation
• Crowdsourcing
• Civic features

Today we’re launching a new feature that will highlight writers and journalists that are active on the fediverse when their articles are being shared.

• Mastodon

• Journalism
• Civic features

We created Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration.

• Voting and elections
• Cybersecurity
• Civic features

Just like how we use AI to detect sidewalks, street signs and road names in satellite imagery to display helpful information in Google Maps, we’ll also use AI to identify oil and gas infrastructure, like oil storage containers, in our imagery. Then, we’ll combine it with EDF’s information about oil and gas infrastructure to locate where the emissions are coming from.

• Google
• Climate action
• methane

• Civic maps
• Satellites
• Civic features

ReclaimYourName.dic is the first custom dictionary to normalize thousands of Asian names in the world’s most popular word processing software, where non-English identities are arbitrarily targeted as errors.

• 2023 Webby Awards
• campaigns
• Asian and Pacific Islander

• Specific campaigns
• Diversity & Inclusion
• Translation and linguistic representation

Our new policy makes Pinterest the only major digital platform to have clearly defined guidelines against false or misleading climate change information, including conspiracy theories, across content and ads.

• Climate action
• 2023 Webby Awards
• Pinterest

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Civic features

"Customers can now search for accommodations that include an EV charger in their stay. Airbnb made the search addition after years of EV drivers requesting the option."

• Airbnb
• civic features
• Climate action

• Civic features

What this means is we’re putting the power into people’s hands to maintain access to WhatsApp if their connection is blocked or disrupted.

• WhatsApp

• Circumvention tech
• Civic features

Civic engagement features promoting voting while dating in the 2022 cycle

• Voting and elections
• Civic features
• Voter registration

Flexport.org uses logistics as a positive force for social and environmental impact - enabling organizations to deliver global aid and meet their sustainability goals with greater ease and lower costs.

• supply chain

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Civic features
• Participatory aid

A library of design interventions to encourage prosocial behaviors online

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Design
• Playbooks and design principles

The Internet Archive has started to surface some of these annotations for Wayback Machine users.

• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking
• Archives

This powerful tool allows viewers to donate directly on YouTube through the live chat donations or the Donate button, and it’s now available to all YouTube Partner Program channels with more than 10,000 subscribers in the United States, United Kingdom and Canada.

• YouTube

• Civic features

Snap has new Lenses that show users how to fingerspell in American Sign Language

• Snap
• Deaf

• Civic features
• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)

From october 26 to 30, rock the vote invites you to learn about the united states’ electoral process and, more importantly, vote on the most important issues that are being debated across the country right now.

• Minecraft

• Voting and elections
• Civic features
• Civic literacy

Airbnb encourages hosts to donate their shelter in times of need, and is now spinning the program out as a formal non-profit.

• housing
• Airbnb
• civic features

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Civic features

A tagging system for fact-checks

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Data schemas and standards

X's community-based approach to misinformation

• civic features
• X (Twitter)

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Civic features

Across Maps, Search, Nest, Flights, and Shopping

• Climate action
• Google

• Civic features

Google team focused on election information and civic features within Google products

• Google

• The People
• Build something
• Civic features

The news has always played an essential role in our lives, keeping us informed about the world and the issues we care about.

• civic features
• Google

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

Over a thousand cities and other public sector partners are already working with Waze to gain better data and insights; reduce driving alone with Waze Carpool; and to make their communities safer with Waze's Beacons and Crisis programs.

• civic features
• Google
• mobility

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

The Ad Library provides advertising transparency by offering a comprehensive, searchable collection of all ads currently running from across Facebook Products.

• Facebook

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data