The first #50501 protests were a decentralized rapid response to the anti-democratic and illegal actions of the Trump administration and its plutocratic allies. The idea—50 protests in 50 states on 1 day—was born on r/50501 and spread rapidly on social media.
*SLAPP - Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation is a legal action taken to block public participation, including journalists and activists, in public debate. Their goal is to silence criticism of the actions of government or large corporations.
The new model includes the development of the largest national legislative database, which integrates not only federal and local legislation but also judicial rulings, government processes, services, and field-level systems.
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Nightshade transforms images into "poison" samples, so that models training on them without consent will see their models learn unpredictable behaviors that deviate from expected norms.
The Impact Map provides timely data—as it becomes available—on policy, funding, and workforce changes and their localized effect. This tool is currently in beta and will continue evolving, so you may find areas that need updating.
The company previously worked with 3rd party fact-checking organizations to fight disinformation on their platforms. They killed the program at the beginning of the 2025 Trump administration. It's still operating outside of the USA (for now).
The Impact Project provides objective, transparent, and open-source data to help explain how federal policies, funding, and workforce changes affect our communities.
"Developed by Romanian researchers, Ion’s main task will be to scan social networks to inform the government “in real time of Romanians’ proposals and wishes” - The Guardian quoting the press release
Google Cloud now offers Geospatial Analytics, Generative AI on Street View imagery, and more environmental data as part of the broader Google Maps Platform
Norwegian Church Aid, with the support of Innovation Norway, is working on the design of a digital “meeting place” for communities at risk of violence to talk safely about needs, priorities, and aspirations.
We are a charity that helps organisations publish and use open grants data so that people can understand the funding context, make informed decisions, and work together to support communities and good causes as effectively as possible.
The Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network is a non-profit wireless community that aims to develop, use and promote a wireless broadband network in the wider Athens area.
TLC is the first trans-led specialist gender identity legal practice in Britain, providing free and accessible legal help to transgender and non-binary people in need.
They were locally controlled sites on the Internet that typically free services including training and hardware donations, as well as e-mail (years before Google and others got involved) web space, and community forums
The First Branch LLM (Large Language Model) concept map below imagines the critical infrastructure needed at the enterprise level to create an accessible, accountable, and permanent information system for both the public and lawmakers.
Nieman Journalism Lab covered ProPublica's brilliant approach to getting government sources: parking one of those billboard trucks with an ad for their secure Signal number outside of government offices in DC as terminated employees left the building.
As Lynwood Unified moves forward with integrating artificial intelligence technologies into the classroom, the district is assembling an AI Taskforce to help guide this process. Download Resources
The report serves as an entry point to this ‘forecasting’ stream of work that organizations working in the digital rights ecosystem often overlook, especially when resources are scarce, and they are focused on current challenges and ongoing projects.
The Open Gov Challenge Awards recognize the best initiatives submitted to the Open Gov Challenge, a global call to action aimed to encourage ambition in ten areas of open government critical to strengthening our democracies.
GANNET is a Generative AI Initiative, offering AI-powered tools built to make knowledge and real-time information accessible to our community in a resource-efficient and ethical way.
Phoenix is an open source, non-commercial platform designed to enable peacebuilders and mediators to conduct ethical and participatory social media listening in order to inform conflict transformation work.