Resources

[ Podcast ]

The internet’s evolving role in politics

How the dangers of emerging technologies are reshaping democracy, the economy and society.

[ Report ]

Digital Deceit II

Offering a broad policy framework to address the digital threat to democracy, and recommending specific proposals.

[ Tools and Software ]

Signal Messenger

Open technology for a fast, simple, and secure messaging experience

[ Tools and Software ]

Botslayer

Helping users track and detect potential manipulation of information spreading on Twitter

[ Report ]

General Data Protection Regulations

The official GDPR documentation designed to protect fundamental rights and freedoms, particularly on personal data.

[ Report ]

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.

[ Article ]

Disinformation is becoming unstoppable

Why relying on a news marketplace serving advertisers over citizens harms democracy.

[ Blog ]

Why Technology Will Shape the Future of Democracy

Code can be changed, markets can be regulated, democracy can be strengthened.

[ Report ]

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.

[ Article ]

Introducing Our Open Calls

Reset announces three open calls to find and fund projects that help tackle surveillance capitalism; to engage a diverse group of individuals and organisations; to build a thriving network; and facilitate the redistribution of knowledge and resources.

[ Video ]

RESET Virtual Learning Exchange

Introductory Video -- Virtual Learning Exchange on Platform Governance and Online Harms

[ Article ]

Defending Democracy

The challenges of shaping a reform agenda to protect democracies from disinformation, polarisation and tribalism.

[ Article ]

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

[ Article ]

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.

[ Article ]

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

[ Article ]

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?

[ Article ]

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.

The internet’s evolving role in politics

How emerging technologies are reshaping democracy, the economy and society

[ Report ]

Digital Deceit I

The Technologies Behind Precision Propaganda on the Internet

[ Report ]

Lazy, Not Biased

Susceptibility to Partisan Fake News Is Better Explained by Lack of Reasoning Than by Motivated Reasoning

[ Report ]

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.

[ Report ]

Digital Platforms Final Report

Policy brief summarising the main concerns of digital platforms and provides a viable path to address the identified concerns

[ Report ]

Digital platforms inquiry - final report

How search engines, social media and content aggregators affect competition in media and advertising, news and journalism

[ Report ]

Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox

How to truly understand the potential harms of Amazon’s dominance, and how to address the tech giant’s power

[ Article ]

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.

[ Blog ]

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.