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Facebook Digital Literacy Library
United States of America (the)The Facebook Digital Literacy Library is hosted by Facebook and currently includes learning resources made available by Youth and Media at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.
Facebook Bulletin
Palo AltoFacebook's now-defunct newsletter product
Facebook giving the WHO as many free ads as they need for their coronavirus response along with other in-kind support.
Facebook Community Actions
Palo AltoFacebook launches petition feature, its next battlefield
Facebook lance un outil pour faciliter l’accès aux programmes des candidats à la présidentielle
Facebook Suicide Prevention
1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California 94025, USAFacebook’s new “proactive detection” artificial intelligence technology will scan all posts for patterns of suicidal thoughts, and when necessary send mental health resources to the user at risk or their friends, or contact local first-responders.
Facebook ‘Today In' feature
Palo AltoA dedicated section on Facebook that connects people to news and information about their community, called Today In.
a project to improve the transparency behind Facebook’s algorithms
Facebook Ad Archive
Palo AltoThe Ad Library provides advertising transparency by offering a comprehensive, searchable collection of all ads currently running from across Facebook Products.
Facebook Groups
Palo AltoMany communities use Facebook Groups as their online message board
Building on our previous publication of similar high-resolution population maps for 22 countries, we're now releasing new maps of the majority of the African continent, and the project will eventually map nearly the whole world’s population. Using weakly- and semi-supervised learning.
Facebook Political Ad Collector
TorontoThe Political Ad Collector is a tool you add to your Web browser. It copies the ads you see on Facebook, so anyone, on any part of the political spectrum, can see them in our public database.
Facebook Civic Engagement team
Palo AltoA team at Facebook that builds products around election and voting
Facebook Local Alerts
Menlo Park, California, United StatesAllows local governments to notify residents with important information
Every day, people use Facebook to share their experiences, connect with friends and family, and build communities.
A shadow oversight board comprised of outside critics of the company
As part of its comprehensive fact-checking efforts, The Associated Press announced that it will work with Facebook to identify and debunk false and misleading stories related to the U.S. midterm election that are circulating on the platform.
Civic Technology and Open Government - Global #civictech #opengov has 7,413 members. Global exchange on civic technology, open government, open data,...
Meeting people where they already are
Sie haben geholfen, Trump zum Präsidenten zu machen. Sie haben den Brexit befeuert. Jetzt spielen sie auch im deutschen Wahlkampf eine Rolle: sogenannte "Dark Ads". BuzzFeed News macht diese dunklen Anzeigen nun transparent.
An Open Letter To Meta in response to the company shutting down a vital tool for following discourse on Facebook
PoliDashboard
TorontoAn app for tracking political advertisements on Meta-owned advertising platforms such as Facebook and Instagram.
whopostedwhat.com is a non public Facebook keyword search for people who work in the public interest. It allows you to search keywords on specific dates. You are granted access because of your work. We do urge you to donate a small amount of money to keep the server running.
The U.S. General Services Administration’s (GSA) Emerging Citizen Technology program, part of the Technology Transformation Service’s Innovation Portfolio, launched an open-sourced pilot to guide dozens of federal programs to make public service information available to consumer Intelligent Personal Assistants (IPAs) for the home and office, such as Amazon Alexa, Microsoft Cortana, Google Assistant, and Facebook Messenger.
Encrypted Messaging Applications and Political Messaging: How They Work and Why Understanding Them is Important for Combating Global Disinformation
The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USAThis report provides an overview of how various EMAs work, a review of popular EMAs and their notable features (LINE, Signal, Telegram, Viber, WhatsApp, and WeChat), and examples of how EMAs have been used for political manipulation
USAID One Window for Citizens
CambodiaUSAID launched IVR and Facebook chatbot tools that will provide Cambodian citizens clear, transparent information on public services available to them through the Royal Cambodian Government’s One Window Service Offices (OWSO).
The Global Coalition for Tech Justice is a newly formed global movement to ensure Big Tech plays its role in protecting elections and citizens’ rights and freedoms across the world, particularly in the global majority where companies – Meta/Facebook, Google/YouTube, Twitter, TikTok et al – have been negligent in dealing with the impacts of their social media and messaging products.
Our Massively Multilingual Speech AI research models can identify more than 4,000 spoken languages, 40 times more than any known previous technology. These models expand text-to-speech and speech-to-text technology from around 100 languages to more than 1,100.
WinWith.Me is the Messenger for Politicians - a Facebook Messenger bot-building platform integrated with NationBuilder for campaigns, NGOs and advocacy.
Social Innovation Jobs
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Facebook Group with over 6,000 members
After the 2022 midterms, the Cooperative Impact Lab published initial findings for the Digital Innovation Fund, telling the story of how, in just four months, we stood up and administered one of the most extensive research-grant programs focused on TikTok’s uses for progressive politics and social good.
Audible reckoning: How top political podcasters spread unsubstantiated and false claims
Washington, DCBrookings report: Using a combination of analytical methods – including natural language processing, machine learning, and manual classifying – this research provided the first overarching assessment of the role that popular political podcasting plays in spreading unsubstantiated and false claims.
Vote Force
San FranciscoRelational organizing app to build support for your campaign through friends and family
4PBot
Philippines (the)A virtual assistant for Filipinos on social welfare.
We asked experts on social media to grade how ready Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, and YouTube are to handle the task.
Reorganise
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)15 stories of workers fighting back in a digital age
Uchaguzi 2022
KenyaElection monitoring project of volunteer digital response teams for the upcoming Kenyan elections in August 2022
MOE Election Observation
ColombiaThe Election Observation Mission (La Misión de Observación Electoral, MOE) is an election observer group based in Colombia.
The European Union developed a Code of Practice on Disinformation based on the findings of its High Level Working Group on the issue.
Social Science One
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USASocial Science One implements a new type of partnership between academic researchers and the private sector to advance the goals of social science in understanding and solving society’s greatest challenges.
Iffy Quotient
University of Michigan, South State Street, Ann Arbor, MI, USAThe Iffy Quotient is a metric for how much content from “Iffy” sites has been amplified on Facebook and Twitter.
News Integrity Initiative
CUNY Graduate CenterThe News Integrity Initative is a global consortium focused on helping people make informed judgments about the news they read and share online.
Chequea Bolivia
Bolivia (Buliwya / Wuliwya / Volívia)A fundamental pillar of the democratic system is that there is freedom of expression and dissemination, and that citizens are duly informed to make correct decisions in their daily lives.
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