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The Integrity Institute’s research comes directly from the people who know platforms best—550+ trust and safety professionals from 80+ tech companies. We transform their expertise into original research, industry best practices, and policy guidance.

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Feb 14, 2025

Global Transparency Audit

Feb 14, 2025

We’ve developed a comprehensive evaluation of the current state of platform transparency, including an analysis of reports submitted by platforms under the Digital Services Act (DSA). This report highlights how to strengthen global transparency efforts to achieve more meaningful transparency.

Feb 14, 2025

Feb 1, 2024

Exploring the Depths of Online Safety

Feb 1, 2024

On January 31, 2024, the US Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on child safety online. Following the hearing, Institute staff share their takeaways in this post mortem.

Feb 1, 2024

Jun 1, 2023

Technology Policy Tracker

Jun 1, 2023

Since the summer of 2023, organizers from Cambridge Local First, the Integrity Institute,Tech Policy Press, and Digital Policy Alert have been collaborating on data-building initiatives around major policy happening at the US federal and state level.

Jun 1, 2023

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I Worked at Facebook. It’s Not Ready for This Year’s Election Wave.

Elections Program Lead Katie Harbath’s New York Times op-ed on the coming wave of elections in the next few years that social media platforms must prepare for.

Ranking and Design Transparency

In this presentation, we help you understand how the platforms are designed and how their ranking algorithms work.

Metrics and Transparency

Here we’ll help you understand the scale and cause of harms occurring on social media platforms.