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Child Safety Online Briefing
Our briefing deck for Senate staffers to help them prepare for the hearing and guide their Senator’s statements and line of questioning.
Child Safety Online: Policy Recommendations
Integrity Institute delineates the best practices we advocate for Child Safety across all digital platforms
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.
Elections Integrity Best Practices Guide: Defining and Achieving Success
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.
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.
Best Practices for Developing & Launching Content Policies for your Platform
Announcing a New Resource: Best Practices for Developing & Launching Content Policies for your Platform
How Much Has Social Media Affected Polarization?
Following the first published research from the 2020 Facebook and Instagram Election Study (FIES), Tom shows that social media has probably not made a huge contribution to US polarization and how we can extrapolate estimates from the FIES to other effects of interest, specifically the aggregate impact of social media on the US over the last 20 years.
Shining a Light on Platform Transparency Best Practices
As a wave of new regulations and legislative proposals around transparency from social media platforms are being written all over the world, the Integrity Institute is releasing a new resource to provide a high-level overview of what platform transparency could look like and what it could accomplish.
Meaningful Platform Transparency to Inform Society & Prepare for Upcoming Regulations
Institute co-founder Jeff Allen presented at TrustCon in July 2023.
Technology Policy Tracker
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.
Focus on Features
Minimize digital harms through design, a guide for product managers and lawmakers.
The Ultimate Guide to Election Integrity! with Katie Harbath and Glenn Ellingson
It might be May 2023, but it’s never too early to start worrying about elections! 2024 is slated to be the biggest year of elections in platform history. In this Trust in Tech episode, Katie Harbath and Glenn Ellingson join the show to prepare you for the storm of elections coming in 2024.
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. Photo by Liz Dufour/The Enquirer/USA Today Network
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.
Ranking by Engagement
Tom shares his six observations on ranking by engagement on social media platforms, especially how to understand and measure engagement as negatively related to content quality.
Insights from Data: What the Numbers Tell Us About Elections and Future of Democracy
2024 has 65 elections globally across 54 countries. We won’t see that many again until 2048. Katie Harbath and Ana Khizanishvili share what these numbers from global elections tell us about the future of democracy.
2023 Nigerian Election Misinformation Amplification Analysis
Facebook and Twitter continue to amplify misinformation in Nigeria, with Twitter’s amplification being significantly larger than Facebook’s.
Election Cycle Tracker
The Institute launched a global election cycle tracker that highlights how frequently countries hold elections and when their next ones are scheduled. This tool is part of our Elections Integrity Program, led by Katie Harbath, and was developed by Katie together with Ana Khizanishvili for Anchor Change.
Analysis of Q3 2022 WVCR
Reporting from the WSJ on internal discussions at Facebook show internally, Facebook considers the top content lists this quarter to have “no low quality content” Contrary to that, we see little change in the number of posts that fail basic media literacy checks.
