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Vast Networks of Fake Accounts Raise Questions About Meta’s Compliance with the EU's DSA
This report analyzes inauthentic Facebook pages including pro-Kremlin advertising campaigns and scam advertising.
Come for the memes, stay for the Kremlin propaganda
This report analyses the bait-and-switch disinformation campaigns in Francophone Africa.
Case Study: Bratislava Terrorist Attack
This report analyses the content moderation policies and responsiveness of Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube in the context of the shooting in Bratislava. Particular insight was gained for the report by collaborating with the CMS in order to share process details and results, and to push for greater oversight of the analysed platforms.
Italian Elections Content Moderation Efficacy Report
Italy’s snap election on September 25 took place amid a rising tide of social media distortion, disinformation, and online hate campaigns.
Italy Antivax Disinformation Report
Violent Italian conspiracy group harasses politicians and spreads vaccine disinformation in blatant breach of Facebook rules
LES CONSPIRATIONNISTES FRANÇAIS SOUS INFLUENCE AMERICAINE: LE CAS DE TELEGRAM
RESUME Cette note de recherche vise à tester les possibilités offertes par l’outil d’analyse de partage de contenus entre chaînes Telegram développé par GEODE. Nous avons choisi de mobiliser cet outil afin d’analyser les zones de perméabilité et de propagation de contenus conspirationnistes et d’extrême droite entre le cyberespace américain, canadien et francophone.
Rapport Élections Françaises 2022
Résumé exécutif Les 10 et 24 avril 2022, les Français se sont présentés devant les urnes pour élire le Président de la République des cinq prochaines années. Les 12 et 19 juin suivants, les citoyens sont retournés dans les bureaux de vote pour élire leurs représentants à l’Assemblée Nationale. Durant les mois précédant ces deux scrutins majeurs, les candidats ont fait campagne dans un contexte chamboulé par des situations domestique et géopolitique inhabituelles, avec, d’une part, la gestion de la crise sanitaire et, d’autre part, la guerre en Ukraine, qui ont toutes deux éloigné les discussions des programmes des candidats.
Report on French Election 2022
Executive Summary of the Report on French Elections On 10 and 24 April 2022, French voters went to the polls to elect the President of the Republic for the next five years. On 12 and 19 June they returned to the ballot box to elect their representatives to the National Assembly. Campaigning in the run-up to these two major elections was disrupted by a unique set of domestic and geopolitical circumstances, with the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine both taking the focus away from discussion of the candidates’ policies.
SLOW BURN : LA LENTE MONTÉE EN PUISSANCE DES NARRATIFS CONSPIRATIONNISTES EN CONTEXTE ÉLECTORAL
Cette étude s’intéresse au « bruit de fond » à tendance conspirationniste issu des milieux d’extrême-droite au sujet de l’élection présidentielle française (avril 2022).
Memos on platforms behaviour during the 2022 French elections
Thanks to Reset funding, a dedicated Open Terms Archive instance was set up to track documents for the 5 most used social media in France that could have a systemic impact on the elections.
Big Tech als Radikalisierungsmotor in der Pandemie
Untersuchungen von Reset und seinen Partnerorganisationen zeigen, dass die Plattformen von Tech-Riesen wie Meta und Google während der Pandemie Brandbeschleuniger für Radikalisierung und ein Millionenpublikum für demokratiefeindliche Ideen zugänglich gemacht haben.
#btw21 im Netz: Wie wir unsere Demokratie zukünftig vor digitalen Bedrohungen schützen
Die Bundestagswahl 2021 im Netz: Mit Einschätzungen von Expert:innen wie Anna- Lena von Hodenberg (HateAid), Matthias Kettemann (HBI), Julian Jaursch (Stiftung Neue Verantwortung), Chloe Colliver (ISD), Alexander Sängerlaub (futur eins) uvm. sowie Policy-Empfehlungen für ein besseres Internet von morgen.
New evidence of Facebook harms must lead to greater oversight of Big Tech
We will directly support efforts that enable a broad public debate about the disclosures and evidence Frances Haugen has brought to light. We will continue to create a safe environment for and support all those who are focused on tackling these digital threats to democracy and making social media and Big Tech platforms more transparent and accountable.
Recommendations for protecting the German election
Reset and HateAid conducted nationwide research on German internet users to better understand social media effects on the culture of debate, disinformation, and hate in Germany. In summary, 9 months after the Capitol Hill insurrection, Big Tech continues to put the German election at risk. See the full report for findings and recommendations.
Social Media in Germany: Effects on the Culture of Debate, Disinformation, and Hate
Reset and Pollytix conducted a nationwide comprehensive representative survey of German internet users who are eligible voters to better understand social media effects on the culture of debate, disinformation, and hate in Germany.
EU's Digital Services Act & U.S. Democracy
The EU’s proposed laws would make for more prepared and resilient democracies in the face of algorithmically supercharged violence and hate
Simple Search for purer results
The Markup’s Simple Search is an extension that highlights the “traditional” or “ten blue link” search results provided by the search engine, laying them over the info boxes and other content.
Blacklight - A Real-Time Website Privacy Inspector
Who is peeking over your shoulder while you work, watch videos, learn, explore, and shop on the internet?
Building our network of partners
We introduce some of our new partners that are working to reduce the influence of disinformation, blunt the impact of fragmentation and polarisation in society, and ultimately stabilise a modern public sphere capable of supporting democratic self-government.
Opinion: Algorithm 'gatekeepers' undermine democracy and health
Realigning the commercial incentives of Big Tech with the values of democracy and social welfare does not mean a government-imposed standard for truth or draconian limits on free speech.
Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox
How to truly understand the potential harms of Amazon’s dominance, and how to address the tech giant’s power
Digital platforms inquiry - final report
How search engines, social media and content aggregators affect competition in media and advertising, news and journalism
Digital Platforms Final Report
Policy brief summarising the main concerns of digital platforms and provides a viable path to address the identified concerns
Models for Platform Governance
Platforms threaten our social fabric, our economy and our democracy. To begin to address this, CIGI has convened leading thinkers to explore new models for platform governance.
Lazy, Not Biased
Susceptibility to Partisan Fake News Is Better Explained by Lack of Reasoning Than by Motivated Reasoning
Digital Deceit I
The Technologies Behind Precision Propaganda on the Internet
Big Tech - The internet’s evolving role in politics
How emerging technologies are reshaping democracy, the economy and society
It’s not that we’ve failed to rein in Facebook and Google. We’ve not even tried
Shoshana Zuboff explains how data doesn’t just help Big Tech predict our behaviour, it changes it. But democracy can fight back.
Slouching towards dystopia: the rise of surveillance capitalism and the death of privacy
Our lives and behaviour have been turned into profit for the Big Tech giants – and we meekly click “Accept”. How did we sleepwalk into a world without privacy?
The new rules for the internet - and why deleting Facebook isn’t enough
Outlining radical but essential new rules for the internet, because deleting Facebook isn’t enough
Russia's Election Interference Is Digital Marketing 101
Ben Scott and Dipayan Ghosh discuss how the unchecked market power of social-media companies is subverting elections.
Did Google and Facebook break democracy?
Unchecked, the Internet has led our democracy into crisis. Reset’s Ben Scott offers a plan to fix it
Defending democracy
The challenges of shaping a reform agenda to protect democracies from disinformation, polarisation and tribalism.
Introductory Video -- Virtual Learning Exchange on Platform Governance and Online Harms
Introductory Video – Virtual Learning Exchange on Platform Governance and Online Harms
Age appropriate design: a code of practice for online services
The UK Information Commissioner’s guidance on age-appropriate design for digital services likely to be accessed by children.
Why Technology Will Shape the Future of Democracy
Code can be changed, markets can be regulated, democracy can be strengthened.
Disinformation is becoming unstoppable
Why relying on a news marketplace serving advertisers over citizens harms democracy.
Center for Humane Technology has this Ledger of Harms on social media
Revealing the negative impacts of social media and mobile tech that harm society but leave company balance sheets unscathed.
General Data Protection Regulations
The official GDPR documentation designed to protect fundamental rights and freedoms, particularly on personal data.
Botslayer
Helping users track and detect potential manipulation of information spreading on Twitter
Signal Messenger
Open technology for a fast, simple, and secure messaging experience
Digital Deceit II
Offering a broad policy framework to address the digital threat to democracy, and recommending specific proposals.