Media and social media analysis
Tools and datasets that allow us to quantify and study how an idea, meme, or campaign moves through the media ecosystem. This work is important to understanding why we’re talking about certain stories, considering how news events are framed by competing actors, and thinking about our news blindspots that leave us uninformed on entire topics or parts of the world.
Global Media and Internet Concentration Project
Tracking two-dozen communication, Internet and media markets in nearly 40 countries.
Global Media Registry
The Global Media Registry is a non-profit social enterprise that supports transparency, accountability and pluralism in our shared digital information space. We are a solution hub for newsrooms, regul...
Twitter Brigade
Astroturfing research. We spent the second half of 2020 analysing 24 fake Twitter profiles that published divisive or hostile content and were regularly mentioned or retweeted by Slovenian right-wing...
The Public Good Projects
We use science and technology to tackle today’s most pressing public health issues.
Filling the Progressive TikTok Gap
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 m...
Audible reckoning: How top political podcasters spread unsubstantiated and false claims
Brookings report: Using a combination of analytical methods – including natural language processing, machine learning, and manual classifying – this research provided the first overarching assessment...
Hatemeter
Hate speech tool for monitoring, analysing and tackling Anti-Muslim hatred online
DCinbox
Official e-newsletters from every member of Congress. In one place. In real time.
The Social Media Listening Center at Clemson University
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...
Misinformation exposure
Misinformation exposure scores measure how much the politicians and public organizations you follow tend to lie (based on fact-checking their claims by PolitiFact).
Los Desinformantes
Los desinformantes es una serie de investigaciones sobre diferentes actores que han desinformado durante la pandemia.
Groundviews
Groundviews is a citizens journalism website based in Sri Lanka which uses a range of genres and media to highlight alternative perspectives on governance, human rights, the arts and literature, peace...
WhatsApp archiver
The WhatsApp archiver consolidates chat files exported from different WhatsApp conversations into one database
US Media Ownership database
Harvard Future of Media Project datasets of media ownership in the US from 2021
Troll Tracker / Twoops Tracker
Track the trolls & sock-puppets poisoning our democracies
A.N.C.I.R. Misinfo
A project investigating the stories and the data behind fake news in Africa
OSINT Techniques
Resources for Open Source Intelligence and Social Media Investigations.
River Sentiment Dashboard
Linking river health to wellbeing in the Thames basin
Communalytic
Communalytic is a computational social science research tool for studying online communities and discourse.
Civic Signal
CivicSignal is Code for Africa's AI/machine learning initiative, using large-scale media monitoring to map the content/creator landscape and underlying business models for disinformation profiteers. I...
Violence Against Women in Elections Online: A Social Media Analysis Tool
This tool offers an adaptable method to measure the gendered aspects and understand the drivers of this violence.
The Social Media Tracking Centre
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 ther...
Social Media Analysis Toolkit (SMAT)
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.
The Citizen Browser Project
The Markup, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates how the world’s most powerful institutions use technology to reshape society, today announced the development of The Citizen Browser Project—an initi...
Social Media Monitoring During the 2020-2021 Elections in Georgia
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 ho...
Radar
Radar is a project which uses a combination of algorithms and manual research to find posts related to three themes over a wide variety of social media platforms in Brazil.
Protecting Tunisian Elections from Digital Threat Roundtable
The roundtable highlights the current state of social media used by political actors ahead of the elections, seeking to understand and foresight how social media will impact the political campaign, an...
Project Certeza
First deployed on Election Day in 2018, Project Certeza’s purpose was to identify and deal with false information disseminated, particularly through social networks but also through any other media, t...
PubliElectoral
PubliElectoral is a technological tool of social interest that allows the collection of information related to electoral advertising on social networks without affecting the privacy of citizen users.
Pressland
Pressland is a first-of-its-kind data-intelligence platform that maps global media production in real time.
NewsTracker
"A grant from the Knight Foundation to PBS News Hour, the Newstracker project has tasked itself with "developing a tool that combines online news content with engagement data from social media and oth...
Netvizz
Netvizz is a data collection and extraction application that allows researchers to export data in standard file formats from different sections of the Facebook social networking service.
Linterna Verde
Linterna Verde do Research on the online public debate based on areas of interest. They seek to make our work accessible, useful and actionable for civil society, the media and government.
Sentinel Project early warning system for Kenya Election 2022
Leading up to and following the Kenyan election on August 9 2022, the Sentinel Project is expanding its previous work in the area, from Una Hakika to 15 of Kenya's highest risk counties.
Hoaxy
Hoaxy is a tool that visualizes the spread of articles online.
Hamilton 2.0
The Hamilton 2.0 dashboard, a project of the Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, provides a summary analysis of the narratives and topics promoted by Russ...
Digital Democracy Room
The Digital Democracy Room is an initiative of FGV DAPP to monitor the public debate on the internet and fight disinformation strategies which threaten the integrity of political and electoral process...
Digital Democracy Monitor Toolkit
The Digital Democracy Monitor Toolkit seeks to empower researchers with the knowledge, tools and examples to analyse democratic discourse online.
DEMOS Engendering Hate Report: The counters of state-aligned gendered disinformation online
A report analyzing online spaces being weaponized to exclude women leaders and undermine the role of women in public life. It investigates gendered disinformation on Poland and the Philippines through...
Data Analytics for Social Media Monitoring
This new guide is designed to help democracy practitioners better understand social media trends, content, data, and networks.
Countering Misinformation about Armenia
Monitoring of the selected talk shows, newspapers, electronic periodicals of both Russian and Armenian mass media to examine the media coverage, the possible labelling and targeted information conveye...
Network Contagion Research Institute
NCRI has built its own proprietary platform that has played a critical role in the identification and forecasting of emerging threats that threaten the Economic, physical and social health of civil so...
Memo 98
Memo 98 is a specialist media monitoring organization, with extensive experience of delivery media analyses on behalf of international institutions as well as technical assistance to civil society gro...
Monitor do WhatsApp
This system shows the most shared image, video, audio, messaging, and URLs content across over 300 WhatsApp public groups daily.
Bot Sentinel
In 2018 we launched Bot Sentinel to help fight disinformation and targeted harassment. We believe Twitter users should be able to engage in healthy online discourse without inauthentic accounts, toxic...
Beacon Project
Supports original research into disinformation vulnerability and resilience with public opinion research, analytical pieces, narrative monitoring, and mainstream and social media monitoring, both in h...
Alternative News Networks
This project seeks to understand the health of the UK online information ecosystem, including tracking the spread of divisive and misleading content.
Aggie
Aggie is an open-source social and online media aggregation tool designed specifically for monitoring events in real time.
ANCIR Investigative Lab (iLab)
The ANCIR iLab uses forensic data science techniques to expose the networks that disseminate and amplify misinformation, disinformation, and toxic content (such as hate speech or extremism) with a spe...
Widely Viewed Content Dashboard
In the "Widely Viewed Content Report", Facebook provides the 20 individual links and 20 individual posts that were seen by the highest number of people, in the US, for the quarter. In this dashboard,...