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Build In Integrity: Best Practices for Start Ups and Early Stage Companies
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Build In Integrity: Best Practices for Start Ups and Early Stage Companies

No social media app wants to become known as a center for awful content. The reality is bad behavior and bad actors are inevitable on social media platforms. This resource provides companies facing these challenges guidance on how to address them early, build in integrity systems from the start, and get to a healthy platform growth cycle, which sets the company up for long-term success.

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Defining and Achieving Success in Elections Integrity
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Defining and Achieving Success in Elections Integrity

Elections matter, and history has demonstrated online platforms will find themselves grappling with these challenges whether they want to be or not. This guide provides companies – large or small, established or new-on-the-block – concrete details as they fully implement an elections integrity program.

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Elections Integrity Best Practices Guide: Responsibly Supporting Elections on Online Platforms
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Elections Integrity Best Practices Guide: Responsibly Supporting Elections on Online Platforms

With a wave of 65 elections across 54 countries coming in 2024, including a US presidential election, 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.

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