Annoucements
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New Guide Details Best Practices for Elections Integrity Online
With a wave of 65 elections across 54 countries coming in 2024, including a presidential election in the US, the Integrity Institute is releasing a new guide – the first in a planned series – on best practices for online companies to help better support healthy elections across platforms, particularly those who are newer or smaller.

What Does the Trust & Safety Team at OpenAI do?
Executive director Sahar Massachi shares his thoughts on the latest Trust in Tech episode with OpenAI.
Integrity Institute Supports UK’s Ofcom as it Develops Online Safety Codes of Practice
The Integrity Institute continues its international policy engagement to help regulators operationalize online safety globally

Announcing: Integrity Institute Visiting Fellowship!
Executive director Sahar Massachi announces the Integrity Institute’s brand-new visiting fellows program

Launching: Founding Fellows. Plus: peek inside our day-to-day and DC visit
In this newsletter, executive director Sahar Massachi publicly honors our Founding Fellows who have been with us from the very beginning.

Integrity Institute Releases Elections Integrity Resource Ahead of SXSW
Global elections projection dashboard out to 2072 produced with Anchor Change

New Results Tracking Misinformation Amplification in Nigeria
The Nigerian election is a few days away, and we've updated our Misinformation Amplification Tracking to include Nigerian fact checks.

Integrity Institute Releases Misinformation Amplification Analysis for Nigerian Election
Integrity Institute Finds Facebook and Twitter Continue to Amplify Elections Misinformation in Nigeria

We disagree and that's honestly cool
In this newsletter, executive director and co-founder Sahar Massachi takes us down the memory lane for the Integrity Institute’s origin story.

Internal doc: Reflections on our staff retreat
In this newsletter, executive director and co-founder recaps the Integrity Institute’s staff retreat in Los Angeles.

Today’s news (layoffs)
Today was another bad day for the industry. Executive director and co-founder Sahar Massachi shares his reflection about the tech industry’s turbulence.

Our internal all-hands doc. Plus: better meet Glenn
Executive director and co-founder Sahar Massachi shares the end-of-2022 deck from the Integrity Institute.

Integrity Institute Joins European Digital Media Observatory Consortium to Monitor Disinformation in Europe
For the next 30 months, Integrity Institute will be part of the consortium selected by the European Commission to detect, analyze, and counter disinformation campaigns across the European Union.

Our analysis of Facebook's WVC Report for Q3 2022
Facebook released the Q3 2022 edition of their Widely Viewed Content report before Thanksgiving, so it's bit late, but we've finished our analysis of the Q3 2022 Widely Viewed Content Report from Facebook.

We Filed A Brief At The Supreme Court. Also: Podcasts!
It’s finally live. The Integrity Institute filed an amicus brief to the Supreme Court for a high-profile case (Gonzalez v Google), and we — maybe counterintuitively — don’t take a stand on who should win.

Integrity Institute Files Amicus Brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in the Case of Gonzalez v. Google LLC
In support of neither party, the amicus brief explains major uses of algorithms in large tech platforms and urges the Court to decide narrowly based on technical specificity and nuance.

Presenting: A New Podcast Pilot. ALSO: *Gestures Around*
We present: Trust in Tech, a podcast of Integrity Institute.

We <3 Community Leaders/Nurturers
Integrity Institute member Laure Cast is running a public event for community builders!

Announcing our Elections Integrity Program
We are extremely excited to announce our Elections Integrity Program! This is something that we’ve been working on behind the scenes for over a month now, but we finally have all the products ready to launch! You can follow along with all our work here on our Elections Integrity Program Hub.

Integrity Institute Receives $520 Thousand from Knight Foundation for Elections Integrity Program
Thanks to a generous grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Integrity Institute will be running a program supporting the integrity of elections on social media platforms through 2024.