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What We Do

Institute researchers produce timely publications about the threat to democracy posed by digital propaganda and deception and contribute to academic journals with new scholarships.

The Institute brings together a team of leading interdisciplinary researchers from around the world under one roof and organizes events on new disinformation research.

The institute collaborates with the Poynter Institute and its PolitiFact project to offer trainings on the misinformation landscape and how to correct false information with fact-checking journalism.

Conducting research on specific cases of pernicious content to help produce high-impact news articles.

Developing computational tools for identifying and analyzing harmful content and its producers.

Conducting multidisciplinary research into the health and societal consequences of platform policies and behaviors.

Pursues research about how perceptions and narratives online about racial demographics affect how people think about democracy