A US-based campaign

• Digital security and privacy
• Specific campaigns

An app for tracking political advertisements on Meta-owned advertising platforms such as Facebook and Instagram.

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Voting and elections

Supports the creation of a prototype Open Knowledge Network — an essential public-data infrastructure to power the next information revolution.

• Civic data
• Open knowledge

Crowdsourced campaign leaflet reporting

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Organize campaigns
• Crowdsourcing

À partir du jeudi 17 février 2022 et jusqu’au 8 avril, l'ensemble des membres de Tinder en France âgés de 18 à 25 ans verront donc apparaître plusieurs “Swipe Video Card'' détaillant les démarches à suivre pour les élections présidentielles de 2022. Chaque Swipe Card dirige les membres vers notre page “Infos élections”.

• civic features

• Voting and elections
• Voter outreach
• Advertising

"S.T.I.R.NA" is an initiative aimed at providing information about media owners and ad spending in a simple and convenient manner.

• private data public good

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Advertising
• Media literacy

PwO is a technical consultancy that specializes in 0->1 product development and technology enablement in complex stakeholder environments, frequently touching government or the built environment, and often related to innovation and/or user experience-first initiatives.

• Build something
• Govtech vendors
• Building in the private sector

The Australian Ad Observatory project is enabling independent research into the role that algorithmically targeted advertising plays in society.

• extensions

• Advertising
• Data donations

We bring together influential creators and high-impact causes.

• Organize campaigns
• Advertising
• Creators and Influencers

Upscale paid social with creators

• commercial

• Advertising
• Creators and Influencers

Every year, we track innovations and changes across the political tech space, recognizing the need to capture the developments in this fast-changing industry. This report focuses on the historic 2022 midterm cycle.

• reports
• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Fieldwide resources

An ongoing series of reports about ad-funded disinformation

• reports

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Advertising

Hawkfish was a 2020 Election effort, supported by Mike Bloomberg, that engaged with Democratic candidates, allies & causes to reach the right voters with the right message in the right place using robust technology, data, and digital-first storytelling.

• partisan

• Artificial Intelligence
• Organize campaigns
• Graveyard

Potential Energy is a nonpartisan, nonprofit coalition that brings together America’s leading creative, analytic and media agencies to shift the narrative on climate change. Together, we are using the power of marketing to develop new narratives, engage new audiences, and build demand for a better, cleaner, more prosperous world.

• Climate action

• Advertising

The European Union developed a Code of Practice on Disinformation based on the findings of its High Level Working Group on the issue.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Civic tech legislation and policy

FightHoax offered a seamless way to extract actionable insights from news, allowing DSPs to increase the advertising ROI for their customers, through smart brand safety filters and deep contextual targeting.

• commercial

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Graveyard

Introducing an open-source browser extension that helps you thwart targeted advertising on Facebook. Not updated since 2018.

• Facebook
• extensions

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Advertising

A report analyzing the online environment and potential risks for the 2021 German Federal Elections.

• reports

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Voting and elections

Never before has the need for News Literacy been more urgent.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media literacy

This Code of Conduct was published to address the issues of election transparency and disinformation in the digital sphere.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Voting and elections

Media Bias/Fact Check (MBFC), founded in 2015, is an independent online media outlet.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

PubliElectoral is a technological tool of social interest that allows the collection of information related to electoral advertising on social networks without affecting the privacy of citizen users.

• extensions
• Facebook
• apps

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Watchdogging and transparency

Synthetic Messenger is a botnet that artificially inflates the value of climate news. Everyday it searches the internet for news articles covering climate change. Then 100 bots visit each article and click on every ad they can find.

• Climate action

• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots
• Advertising

Explore Facebook and Instagram Political Ads

• extensions
• Facebook
• Instagram

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Academia
• Crowdsourcing

97th Floor pulled thousands of digital ads, reviewed millions of dollars in ad spend, poured over scores of landing pages, read hundreds of emails, and spent entire days looking at websites, mobile apps, and social media accounts — they even donated $100 to both campaigns to see emails and ad retargeting strategies first-hand.

• US Election 2020

• Specific campaigns
• Advertising

Political campaigns spend a lot of money to reach voters on Facebook. Are they telling the truth? Are they saying different things to different people? Help hold them accountable by installing our browser plugin, which sends us the ads you see on Facebook.

• extensions
• Facebook
• YouTube

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Crowdsourcing
• Advertising

Disclose is a not-for-profit organisation which bridges twin activities as both a media outlet and an NGO to promote investigative journalism.

• Media
• Nonprofit newsrooms

Cybersecurity for Democracy is a research-based effort to expose online threats to our social fabric – and recommend how to counter them. We are part of the Center for Cybersecurity at NYU.

• Digital security and privacy
• Research and policy centers
• Cybersecurity

Don’t let your opposition take you by surprise. View broadcast data from all 210 media markets and monitor creative messaging and trends in real time. by Advertising Analytics

• Organize campaigns
• Advertising

Play or Get Played – the app antidote to deceptive political ads, from HonestAds.org.

• apps

• Advertising

ad.watch breaks open the machine of political advertisements on Facebook and Instagram with data of more than 150 parties in 34 countries.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Advocacy tech

Our goal is to provide multiple independent data sources allowing everyone to reach their own conclusions on what will happen in the 2020 elections.

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Media

Through art, research, investigation and actions, the lab explores new ways of making issues around propaganda in the digital age better known. Persuasion Lab is a project by Manuel Beltrán and Nayantara Ranganathan.

• Artistic interventions
• Advertising

All the Citizens is a non-profit organisation registered as a UK limited company. Most of its initial work has been undertaken by individuals volunteering skills and expertise. It is currently currently made up of around 80 volunteers: journalists, filmmakers, advertising creatives, data scientists, artists, students, lawyers and many more.

Facebook giving the WHO as many free ads as they need for their coronavirus response along with other in-kind support.

• civic features
• COVID-19
• Facebook

• COVID
• Advertising
• COVID Media Projects

Did Facebook ads win the presidency for Donald Trump? Did they cause Brexit? Are they changing the way democracy works? Install Who Targets Me to find out who’s using Facebook ads to win your vote – and how they’re doing it.

• extensions

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Advertising

رسمیو(لیلاک سابق) موتور جستجوی اشخاص و شرکت‌ها است که بر مبنای آگهی‌های روزنامه رسمی کشور ایجاد شده است. رسمیو با تحلیل روزنامه رسمی کشور و ایجاد خروجی معنادار، دسترسی به اطلاعات شرکت‌های ایرانی را راحت کرده است.

• Media
• Media and social media analysis
• Advertising

Public Good’s context and action-based approach is the most effective way to engage consumers in your brand.

• The Tech
• Advertising

The Redirect Method is focused on reaching those who are actively looking for extremist content and connections. Rather than create new content and counter-narratives, our approach tries to divert young people off the path to extremism using pre-existing YouTube content and targeted advertising.

• extremism
• YouTube

• The Tech
• Media
• Media and social media analysis

Swayable lets political campaigns and brands measure how content changes people’s minds. Campaigns using Swayable increase their impact on opinions by measuring persuasion, breaking down exactly which kinds of people respond to which content.

• The Tech
• Media
• Advocacy tech

your Government One Stop ® for services and information

• Govtech
• Service delivery

Toolkit for tracking advertisers on partisan news channels with sampling, data science, and open data.

• Civic data
• Media
• Advocacy tech

Disqus offers the best add-on tools for websites to increase engagement. We help publishers power online discussions with comments and earn revenue with native advertising.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Online forums

Connecting brands and consumers

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Advertising

Project to crowdsource political advertising online

• The Tech
• Graveyard
• Crowdsourcing

We have designed a neutral, independent and transparent index to assess news websites on their risk of carrying disinformation.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

B Corp digital agency that leverages data and tech to increase the impact of social impact organizations. We provide analytics, content marketing, and advertising services to socially conscious companies and nonprofits.

• The People
• Evaluate impact

Outfox AI is an intuitive, low-cost Facebook ad-buying platform for down-ballot progressive campaigns and causes.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Advertising

Human Agency is a platform that democratizes the tools of advertising

• The People
• Help out
• Pro bono and volunteer

At Louder we've spent a lot of time asking people to give reach to what they believe deserves more attention. This page is dedicated to the lessons we've learned.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy