Social media
Pro-social usage of social media platforms, such as to draw attentions to causes or protect people from hate speech.
Recommended resources:
- CivicSpace.tech guide to Social Media, including its relevance to civic space, opportunities, risks, and case studies
Bridgy Fed
Bridgy Fed connects web sites, the fediverse, and Bluesky.
Modal Foundation
Open social tech in the public interest
Sparkable
Sparkable is a nonprofit aiming to strengthen democracy and social cohesion by rebuilding social media into a force for good.
Gander
The Social Media You Want, Built in Canada
Guidelines for providers of VLOPs and VLOSEs on the mitigation of systemic risks for electoral processes
This document contains guidance aimed at supporting providers of VLOPs and VLOSEs to ensure that, where appropriate, they comply with their obligation to mitigate specific risks linked to electoral pr...
Blacksky
Join the cookout
eurosky
Eurosky is building the future of social media—open, pluralistic, and made in Europe.
WIRED’s 2025 Political Power Users
The creators, podcasters, and pundits who will blow up the next electoral era
From Dashboards to Data Acquisition: Charting the Social Media Monitoring Market
By Chris Miles with Brandon Silverman and Anna Lenhart
The 4CAT Capture & Analysis Toolkit (4CAT)
4CAT is a research tool that can be used to analyse and process data from online social platforms.
Applied Social Media Lab (ASML)
The Applied Social Media Lab at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center brings together technologists and practitioners to reimagine, rebuild, and reboot social media to serve the public good and establish a l...
Bluesky
We’re building an open foundation for the social internet so that we can all shape its future.
BuzzFeed Island
BuzzFeed Unveils Plan to Take Back the Internet We Love; Company Aims to Disrupt Social Media With a New AI-Driven Platform Built for Creativity and Joy, Not Manipulation or Addiction
Free Our Feeds
Save Social Media From Billionaire Capture.
Social Media Election Policies Tracker
The Social Media Election Policy Tracker is a tool created to broadly chronicle a timeline of selected social media companies’ evolving policies which have impacted the information environment related...
Digital Community Stewards Online Course
A training program for digital community stewards (online group moderators and admins) focused on building social cohesion in online communities, and creating inclusive, engaging, and safe digital exp...
Get the Trolls Out
A campaign that harnesses the power of social media to disseminate innovative media outputs and generate dialogue in order to deliver a powerful counter-narrative against diverse forms of hate speech,...
Plan C Movie TikTok
Webby-award winning social video promoting women's ability to choose
The Undeniable Truth TikTok
Webby-award winning social video by the US Holocaust Museum
Like, Share, Change: Youth, politics & the digital sphere
Fostering youth engagement in Tunisia
Decentralized Social Networking Protocol (DSNP)
The Decentralized Social Networking Protocol establishes a shared social graph that is no longer dependent on a specific application or a centralized platform.
Digital Account Management Toolkit
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.
FediPlan
FediPlan is an open source application (source code) built for scheduling your messages with Mastodon or Pleroma (2.7+).
Meta's Trusted Partners
"Bringing local context to our global standards...Our network of Trusted Partners includes over 400 non-governmental organizations, humanitarian agencies, human rights defenders and researchers from 1...
Platform://Democracy
The project "Platform://Democracy: Platform Councils as Tools to Democratize Hybrid Online Orders" examines how the rules of discourse on platforms can be aligned with public values
Inform, educate, entertain… and recommend?
Report by Ada Lovelace Institute
Institute for Rebooting Social Media
We are a three-year research initiative addressing social media’s most urgent problems, including misinformation, privacy breaches, harassment, and content governance.
Misinformation Amplification Analysis and Tracking Dashboard
At the Integrity Institute, we are tracking how misinformation performs on platforms to measure the extent to which platforms are amplifying misinformation, and the extent to which they are creating a...
Experts grade Big Tech on readiness to handle midterm election misinformation
We asked experts on social media to grade how ready Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, and YouTube are to handle the task.
Uli
Uli lets you take control over your Twitter timeline by redacting slurs, allowing you to archive problematic tweets and coordinating actions with your friends.
Meta
The company behind Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram
Sobrevivendo nas Redes: Guia do Cidadão
A free book on how to survive on social media networks
The Demography Project TikTok
IDADI is our flagship data journalism project, in collaboration with The Infographics Studio, to disseminate, visualize and democratize official data on TikTok to allow Kenyans participate in decision...
Sobrevivendo nas Redes (Surviving on the networks)
The "Surviving the Networks" project aims to strengthen civic culture in Brazil by offering information and strategies on how to better inform oneself in social networks.
Learn to Discern (L2D) - Media Literacy Training
IREX’s Learn to Discern approach builds resilience to manipulative information by empowering those who engage with media and information to navigate it in a safe, critical, responsible, healthy, and e...
Pulso
Keeping the pulse on and raising up nuestra gente
The Institute for Rebooting Social Media
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...
Civical
Social Media Management Software for Politics
Govdirectory
The easiest way to contact your government
Greenfly
Greenfly is the leader in digital media monetization. The Greenfly software platform empowers organizations to collect, organize and distribute digital media to partners and advocates to build awarene...