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Over 700 organizations and individuals petitioning Twitter not to revoke free research access to its API
A team of researchers led by Dominik Hangartner, IPL co-director and professor of public policy at ETH Zurich, has joined forces with colleagues at the University of Zurich to investigate what kind of messages could lead authors of hate speech to refrain from such postings in the future
Misinformation exposure scores measure how much the politicians and public organizations you follow tend to lie (based on fact-checking their claims by PolitiFact).
Uli
IndiaUli lets you take control over your Twitter timeline by redacting slurs, allowing you to archive problematic tweets and coordinating actions with your friends.
Tuits borrados
ArgentinaA Politwoops instance for Argentina. En esta página hay un listado de los mensajes que eliminan los políticos argentinos en Twitter.
Track the trolls & sock-puppets poisoning our democracies
A bot that debunks claims shared on social media by sharing a fact check.
a tool that allows members of the media to track the trustworthiness of stories shared on Twitter.
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.
This project uses advanced machine learning techniques to detect propaganda accounts on Twitter.
BotSlayer is an application that helps track and detect potential manipulation of information spreading on Twitter.
A report analyzing online spaces being weaponized to exclude women leaders and undermine the role of women in public life. It investigates gendered disinformation on Poland and the Philippines through Twitter data analyses.
The conversations that trend on internet platforms shape our world in consequential ways, from who we vote for, to what news we read, to how we respond to a pandemic.
Our research suggests that stepping outside your echo chamber can make you more polarized not less. One of the reasons why this happens is that we become captivated by extremists on the other side who overshadow more moderate voices. The bots below retweet messages 12 by moderates each day who our research indicates resonates with members of the other party. We also screen out messages that score high on toxicity/incivility.
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.
What do your tweets make other people think about your political views? If you are an American Twitter user, log-in to our app below to see how how our model scores your tweets on a continuum from "very liberal" to "very conservative."
Community Notes (formerly Birdwatch)
San FranciscoTwitter's community-based approach to misinformation
A Twitter bot to tweet out procurements on SAM.gov occurring for the legislative branch
What’s the connection between a campaign issue and a vegetable? ProPublica President Richard Tofel reminded us this month. “For too many voters, as every editor in her or his darkest heart knows…
Digital Methods Initiative - Twitter Capture and Analysis Toolset
Twitter Vote Report (TVR) was an all-volunteer nonpartisan online project designed to encourage voters in the 2008 U.S. presidential election to submit brief accounts of their voting experiences using mobile and online tools.
Twitter's Academic Data Grants
Twitter HQ, Market Street, San Francisco, CA, USATwitter Data Grants, through which we’ll give a handful of research institutions access to our public and historical data.
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