In the last few years, the Social Media having a wider reach and faster, started polluting human minds by anti-social elements, wrong doers, pranksters etc.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

The overall goal of the project is to safeguard the information integrity around the 2020 Parliamentary and 2021 Municipal elections in Georgia from disinformation, discrediting campaigns and other hostile information operations on social media.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Voting and elections

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

Social Media and/as Urban Research is a short workshop providing an introduction to conceptualising and approaching social media as part of urban research.

• workshops

• Social media

Social Media Exchange (SMEX) is a media advocacy and development organization with more than 20 years’ experience in commercial, development, and postconflict media environments

• trainings

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Digital literacy

A platform to show how the OTT Tax makes our digital and everyday lives harder, to learn what life would be like if the rest of the world had to pay it too, and to stop the spread of taxes like these elsewhere.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media is a non-profit organization that advocates for Palestinian digital rights. 7amleh’s mission is to create a safe, fair and free digital space for Palestinians.

• Digital security and privacy
• Digital rights

Opening in early 2012, The Social Media Listening Center at Clemson University is an interdisciplinary, cutting-edge laboratory that seeks to monitor, measure, and engage in social media conversations from across the web.

• Media
• Research and policy centers
• Media and social media analysis

We are a three-year research initiative addressing social media’s most urgent problems, including misinformation, privacy breaches, harassment, and content governance.

• Fight disinformation
• Research and policy centers
• Social media

The monitoring of mainstream media (TV, radio, newspapers) has become the general norm in Africa. However, social media trends are harder to track and must be taken into account too. Penplusbytes therefore developed what it calls the Social Media Tracking Centre (SMTC).

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

A live dashboard analyzing the top German candidate's presence on multiple social media platforms.

• Voting and elections
• Data visualization
• Dashboards

This tool offers an adaptable method to measure the gendered aspects and understand the drivers of this violence.

• Gender Equality
• reports

• Voting and elections
• Media and social media analysis
• Reports

This new guide is designed to help democracy practitioners better understand social media trends, content, data, and networks.

• reports

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Working groups

The Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab constructed a timeline of key events, both online and offline, centered on the coordination of “Stop the Steal” efforts that escalated to violence and threatened the transition of power core to American democracy.

• Media and social media analysis
• Timelines

• Books
• Filter bubble poppers

The Institute for Rebooting Social Media is a three-year, “pop-up” research initiative to accelerate progress towards addressing social media’s most urgent problems, including misinformation, privacy breaches, harassment, and content governance.

• Research and policy centers
• Social media

To improve the study of the impact of the internet on democracy by increasing the scale, quality and availability of social media data

• Civic data
• Media and social media analysis
• Data science for social good

To directly study the impact of social media on politics and to develop new methods and technology tools to analyze the impact of social media on democracy.

• Media
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

Worldie‘s mission is to create safety, equality, humanitarianism, positive social impact, and all-in-one integration to improve lives with technology, helpful social media systems, social projects, public safety, crowdsourced help, and a network of partners.

• harassment
• humanitarian

• Engagement tech
• Online forums
• Social networks

Posters and social media resources for Canva users

• print resources

• COVID
• COVID Engagement Projects

Track your policy impact

• Media and social media analysis
• Evaluate impact
• Research tools

The Internet & Democracy Initiative will study problems that have widespread information and social media implications.

• Fight disinformation
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Civil society organization craving for improved government, political parties, CSOs and businesses accountability with the introduction of reliable and innovative civic engagement solutions.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Media and social media analysis
• Government transparency

"JamiiForums is a Tanzania-based social networking website in East Africa founded in 2006. The online network is notable as the most popular social media website in Tanzania, according to AllAfrica" -Wikipedia

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

An Open Letter To Meta in response to the company shutting down a vital tool for following discourse on Facebook

• 2024 elections
• Facebook

• Media and social media analysis
• 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

Whether it’s hate speech in our social media or bringing together diverse groups for online training, digital tools can harm and help our peacebuilding initiatives.

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions

• Civic tech catalogs

Fostering youth engagement in Tunisia

• youth

• Social media
• Citizen Engagement

The Decentralized Social Networking Protocol establishes a shared social graph that is no longer dependent on a specific application or a centralized platform.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Decentralization
• Social media

The program pays topic experts to create relevant content on social media for NGI

• Creators and Influencers
• Public Relations and amplification

My new WikiCred project is aimed at making Wikidata/Wikipedia a more effective indicator of news-site credibility.

• Wikipedia

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

The Deliberative Democracy Lab (formerly the Center for Deliberative Democracy), housed within the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University, is devoted to research about democracy and public opinion obtained through Deliberative Polling®.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Surveys & polling

A free, open source tool that displays open analytics for Wikipedia pages

• Wikipedia

• Media and social media analysis
• General purpose open source tools
• Privacy-preserving user analytics

Our WhatsApp link extractor is a tool that makes it easy to export and download all the useful links from your WhatsApp chat history.

• WhatsApp

• Media and social media analysis
• Messaging app analysis

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.

• Facebook

• Media
• Media and social media analysis

A federated social media platform alternative to Twitter (X)

• Mastodon

The aim of this study is to quantify and qualify content production and consumption for articles about politicians, with a specific focus on UK Members of Parliament (MPs).

• Wikipedia

• Peer-reviewed research
• Academia

This is a simple app which generates a WhatsApp share link.

• WhatsApp

• Social media

This guide aims to provide helpful tools and techniques for identifying LinkedIn profiles and for extracting information that will then allow you to pivot to other social media profiles belonging to the target.

• LinkedIn

• Open-source intelligence (OSINT)

A Window into Culture and Politics on YouTube

• YouTube

• Media
• Media and social media analysis

A free downloadable resource from Digital Charity Lab and ODV Digital, to help you ensure that your organisation doesn’t get locked out of its social media or other digital accounts.

• Nonprofit tech
• Social media

Chatbot.team is a conversational messaging platform that offers chatbot development services for businesses of all sizes.

• commercial

• Artificial Intelligence
• Build something
• Bots

FediPlan is an open source application (source code) built for scheduling your messages with Mastodon or Pleroma (2.7+).

• Social media
• Mastodon

自由微博 (FreeWeibo.com)，匿名和不受屏蔽的新浪微博搜索，于 2012 年 10 月 11 日由 GreatFire.org 建立。

• Media
• Media and social media analysis
• Circumvention tech

#KnowYourRightsHK is here to help you understand and exercise your legal rights.

• Legal tech
• Justice tech
• Pro bono and volunteer

an easy-to-use digital safety checklist

• guides

• Digital security and privacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Cybersecurity