• commercial
• X (Twitter)

Over 700 organizations and individuals petitioning Twitter not to revoke free research access to its API

• X (Twitter)

• Fight disinformation
• Specific campaigns

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

• hate speech
• X (Twitter)

• Peer-reviewed research
• Academia

Misinformation exposure scores measure how much the politicians and public organizations you follow tend to lie (based on fact-checking their claims by PolitiFact).

• X (Twitter)

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

Uli lets you take control over your Twitter timeline by redacting slurs, allowing you to archive problematic tweets and coordinating actions with your friends.

• X (Twitter)
• extensions
• Online Gender-Based Violence (OGBV)

• Social media

A Politwoops instance for Argentina. En esta página hay un listado de los mensajes que eliminan los políticos argentinos en Twitter.

• X (Twitter)

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Track the trolls & sock-puppets poisoning our democracies

• X (Twitter)

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

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.

• women
• X (Twitter)

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

BotSlayer is an application that helps track and detect potential manipulation of information spreading on Twitter.

• X (Twitter)

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Bots

This project uses advanced machine learning techniques to detect propaganda accounts on Twitter.

• X (Twitter)
• extensions

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Artificial Intelligence

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.

• X (Twitter)

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

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.

• X (Twitter)
• Reddit

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

Our research suggests that stepping outside your echo chamber can make you more polarized not less

• X (Twitter)

• Bots
• Filter bubble poppers

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.

• X (Twitter)

• Media and social media analysis
• Filter bubble poppers

Twitter's community-based approach to misinformation

• civic features
• X (Twitter)

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Civic features

A Twitter bot to tweet out procurements on SAM.gov occurring for the legislative branch

• X (Twitter)

• Bots
• Procurement oversight

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…

• X (Twitter)

• The Tech
• Media
• Media and social media analysis

Digital Methods Initiative - Twitter Capture and Analysis Toolset

• X (Twitter)

• The Tech
• Media
• Media and social media analysis