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Tools and datasets that allow us to quantify and study how an idea, meme, or campaign moves through the media ecosystem. This work is important to understanding why we’re talking about certain stories, considering how news events are framed by competing actors, and thinking about our news blindspots that leave us uninformed on entire topics or parts of the world.
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Data Analytics for Social Media Monitoring
Washington, DCThis new guide is designed to help democracy practitioners better understand social media trends, content, data, and networks.
Countering Misinformation about Armenia
Armenia (Hayastán)Monitoring of the selected talk shows, newspapers, electronic periodicals of both Russian and Armenian mass media to examine the media coverage, the possible labelling and targeted information conveyed to wide audiences in the result of the activity of Russian and Armenian news and information periodicals, TV talk shows and websites.
NCRI has built its own proprietary platform that has played a critical role in the identification and forecasting of emerging threats that threaten the Economic, physical and social health of civil society.
Memo 98 is a specialist media monitoring organization, with extensive experience of delivery media analyses on behalf of international institutions as well as technical assistance to civil society groups.
Monitor do WhatsApp
Minas GeraisThis system shows the most shared image, video, audio, messaging, and URLs content across over 300 WhatsApp public groups daily.
Supports original research into disinformation vulnerability and resilience with public opinion research, analytical pieces, narrative monitoring, and mainstream and social media monitoring, both in house and in collaboration with local partners in Europe.
In 2018 we launched Bot Sentinel to help fight disinformation and targeted harassment. We believe Twitter users should be able to engage in healthy online discourse without inauthentic accounts, toxic trolls, foreign countries, and organized groups manipulating the conversation.
Alternative News Networks
Oxford, UKThis project seeks to understand the health of the UK online information ecosystem, including tracking the spread of divisive and misleading content.
The ANCIR iLab uses forensic data science techniques to expose the networks that disseminate and amplify misinformation, disinformation, and toxic content (such as hate speech or extremism) with a special focus on coordinated inauthentic behaviour and other influence/information operations.
Aggie is an open-source social and online media aggregation tool designed specifically for monitoring events in real time.
In the "Widely Viewed Content Report", Facebook provides the 20 individual links and 20 individual posts that were seen by the highest number of people, in the US, for the quarter. In this dashboard, we are tracking objective properties of these 20 posts, links, and the producers behind them, as well as the extent to which it is possible for Facebook users to assess the content from a media literacy perspective.
#StopTheSteal: Timeline of Social Media and Extremist Activities Leading to 1/6 Insurrection
Capitol HillThe Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab constructed a timeline of key events, both online and offline, centered on the coordination of “Stop the Steal” efforts that escalated to violence and threatened the transition of power core to American democracy.
Where is there room for common ground on Twitter? This tool tracks hashtags that are used by both Democrats and Republicans on Twitter and also describes the similarity in the tone of tweets across parties.
Investigating disinformation campaigns by Russia during its invasion of Ukraine
ActionSprout
ActionSprout, Commercial Street, Bellingham, WA, USAActionSprout makes it easy to find curated content, schedule posts, manage Facebook ads, and create donations and petitions to grow your following!
Our goal is to provide multiple independent data sources allowing everyone to reach their own conclusions on what will happen in the 2020 elections.
Doublethink Labs
Taipei, TaiwanDoublethink Lab was founded in 2019 to strengthen democracy through enhancing digital defenses. Our work focuses on researching malign Chinese influence operations and disinformation campaigns and their impacts via the digital tools and methodologies we have developed.
Medill Subscriber Engagement Index
Northwestern University, Campus Drive, Evanston, IL, USANorthwestern University has launched the Medill Subscriber Engagement Index, a tool that allows local news organizations to see what content encourages subscribers to stick around and lets publishers benchmark their performance against outlets in comparable markets.
The Narrative Observatory
New York, NYWith data infrastructure purpose-built to deliver audience-based insights, narrative and network analysis, and empirical validation of cultural strategy and content, we help strategists and creative practitioners identify story opportunities and challenges across a range of social issues.
Welcome to TV NEWS Archive! This research library service enables you to: Search more than 1,666,000 U.S. broadcasts using closed captioning; Borrow broadcasts on DVDs; View and Cite short streamed clips; Compare and Contrast perspectives across networks, stations and time; and Place video quotes within your commentary. Dive in and Share your insights!
Gephi
13 rue de l'université, Paris, Ile-de-France, 75007, FranceMakes graphs handy
Botcheck.me
Berkeley, California, USAWe use advance machine learning techniques to detect political propaganda bots on Twitter.
The Observatory on Social Media
107 S Indiana Ave, Bloomington, IN 47405, USATo improve the study of the impact of the internet on democracy by increasing the scale, quality and availability of social media data
ArchiveSocial
212 W Main Street Durham, NC 27701Social Media Archiving Built for Government Transparency
Parli-N-Grams
Parliament Square, London, UKChart the frequency of words and phrases in UK Parliament debates
Democracy and Digital Media conference
42 Second Street, East Cambridge, MA 02141, USATo have been major transformations in global media infrastructure, the platformization of the Internet, and the ubiquity of the mobile phone.
PoliMonitor
TechHub London, Clere Street, London, UKA political data and intelligence start-up helping to connect the public and politicians.
Google Trends
Mountain View, CA, USAExplore what the world is searching
Digital Methods Initiative - Twitter Capture and Analysis Toolset
The Free Speech Project
3700 O St NW, Washington, DC 20057, USAThe Free Speech Project at Georgetown University works to document and analyze the ways Free Speech is threatened in the United States through its flagship enterprise, the Free Speech Tracker, an online tool for monitoring Free Speech challenges and controversies in education, civil society, and government.
Emoji as public awareness
Social Scraper
UkraineSocial Media Scraper is a tool helping journalists and watchdogs to keep politicians accountable for the statements they make in social media.
The Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life
Chapel Hill, NCThe impact of the digital information environment — especially the influence of social media
Google Analytics
Mountain View, CA, USAIt gives you the free tools you need to analyse data for your business in one place, so you can make smarter decisions.
WhoAdvertisesOn
Brooklyn, NYToolkit for tracking advertisers on partisan news channels with sampling, data science, and open data.
The Dangerous Speech Project was founded in 2010 to study speech (any form of human expression) that inspires violence between groups of people – and to find ways to mitigate this while protecting freedom of expression.
Quid
1 California St San Francisco, California 94111, USOther analytic software can show you what is happening, but only Quid can unlock the context that explains why.
The Center for Informed Democracy and Social Cyber-Security (IDeaS)
5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USACarnegie Melon's center for disinformation, hate speech and extremism online
Amnesty Decoders is an innovative platform for volunteers around the world to use their computers or phones to help our researchers sift through pictures, information and documents.
Internews
Internews Network, 15th Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USAInternews, an international nonprofit organization, empowers people worldwide with the trustworthy, high-quality news and information they need to make informed decisions, participate in their communities, and hold power to account.
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