Civic features

WhatsApp Strict Account Settings

A lockdown-style feature that further protects your account from highly sophisticated cyber attacks.

Strict account settings on WhatsApp

Strict account settings is an advanced security feature that turns on privacy and security controls to help protect accounts from sophisticated cyber attacks.

iOS Emergency SOS Live Video

Emergency SOS Live Video allows users to share context through streaming video and recorded media.

Android Emergency Live Video

Share video with dispatchers

Civilization V video game mod: Superintelligent AI

Researchers from the University of Cambridge's Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) have released a mod for Civilization V that introduces superintelligent AI into the popular video game.

TikTok’s Global Fact-checking Program

Through our Global Fact-Checking Program, we work with more than 20 IFCN-accredited fact-checking organizations who assess the accuracy of content on TikTok in over 60 languages and 130 markets across...

Content Credentials in Cloudflare Images

Snapchat Home Safe

"The new location alert feature can spare Snapchat users from sending message updates." - The Verge

Be My Eyes on Ray-Ban Meta Glasses

Hands free access to Be My Eyes through Meta AI Glasses.

Focus on Features

Minimize digital harms through design, a guide for product managers and lawmakers.

Kickstarter Tariff Manager

Creators can now use the Tariff Manager—our new in-house tool designed to help you offset unexpected U.S. import costs directly within Kickstarter’s Pledge Manager.

Meta parental notifications and Adult Classifier

Meta uses AI to find teens pretending to be adults and place them in more restricted Teen Accounts. Plus proactive notifications to their parents' accounts.

AMBER Alerts on TikTok

This brings critical, time-sensitive information directly to people's For You feeds to raise awareness of missing children and leverage the power of the US TikTok community to help reunite them with t...

Robust Open Online Safety Tools (ROOST)

Open and accessible tools that put safety back in the hands of the people

Google Play "Verified" badge for VPN apps

This new badge is designed to highlight apps that prioritize user privacy and safety, help users make more informed choices about the VPN apps they use, and build confidence in the apps they ultimatel...

Google Daily Listen

"Google can turn your Discover feed into an AI-generated podcast" - The Verge

Government-backed attack alerts (Google Workspace)

As an administrator for your organization, you’ll receive an alert if a user is detected as a possible victim of a government-backed attack.

Google's Election Day Google Doodle (US)

A civic feature that helps Americans find out to vote right from within Google Search, in partnership with VIP and Democracy Works

UpTheVote (u/UpTheVote) subReddit

Official Reddit account to help you Up The Vote. Learn how to get registered, understand voting options and deadlines, and make your voice count.

Weibo Community Notes feature (社区“附注”功能上)

Like X and YouTube, China's Weibo platform instituted community notes annotations to fight disinformation on the platform.

Fediverse bylines

Today we’re launching a new feature that will highlight writers and journalists that are active on the fediverse when their articles are being shared.

Cloudflare Athenian Project

We created Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and...

Google MethaneSAT partnership

Just like how we use AI to detect sidewalks, street signs and road names in satellite imagery to display helpful information in Google Maps, we’ll also use AI to identify oil and gas infrastructure, l...

Pinterest Climate Disinformation Policy

Our new policy makes Pinterest the only major digital platform to have clearly defined guidelines against false or misleading climate change information, including conspiracy theories, across content...

Name Reclaim

ReclaimYourName.dic is the first custom dictionary to normalize thousands of Asian names in the world’s most popular word processing software, where non-English identities are arbitrarily targeted as...

Airbnb EV chargers filter

"Customers can now search for accommodations that include an EV charger in their stay. Airbnb made the search addition after years of EV drivers requesting the option."

WhatsApp Proxy feature

What this means is we’re putting the power into people’s hands to maintain access to WhatsApp if their connection is blocked or disrupted.

Tinder Election Center

Civic engagement features promoting voting while dating in the 2022 cycle

Flexport.org

Flexport.org uses logistics as a positive force for social and environmental impact - enabling organizations to deliver global aid and meet their sustainability goals with greater ease and lower costs...

Prosocial Design Network

A library of design interventions to encourage prosocial behaviors online

Airbnb.org

Airbnb encourages hosts to donate their shelter in times of need, and is now spinning the program out as a formal non-profit.

Fact Checks for Internet Archive Wayback Machine Pages

The Internet Archive has started to surface some of these annotations for Wayback Machine users.

Minecraft Build the Vote

From october 26 to 30, rock the vote invites you to learn about the united states’ electoral process and, more importantly, vote on the most important issues that are being debated across the country...

YouTube Giving

This powerful tool allows viewers to donate directly on YouTube through the live chat donations or the Donate button, and it’s now available to all YouTube Partner Program channels with more than 10,0...

Snap Lenses teach users American Sign Language

Snap has new Lenses that show users how to fingerspell in American Sign Language

ClaimReview Project

A tagging system for fact-checks

X Community Notes

X's community-based approach to misinformation

Google's climate features

Across Maps, Search, Nest, Flights, and Shopping

Register to vote on Snapchat

Register to vote on Snapchat

Facebook Ad Archive

The Ad Library provides advertising transparency by offering a comprehensive, searchable collection of all ads currently running from across Facebook Products.

Waze Connected Citizens

Over a thousand cities and other public sector partners are already working with Waze to gain better data and insights; reduce driving alone with Waze Carpool; and to make their communities safer with...

Hey Google, tell me something good

The news has always played an essential role in our lives, keeping us informed about the world and the issues we care about.

Google Civics

Google team focused on election information and civic features within Google products