The Social Media Lab is an interdisciplinary research laboratory at Toronto Metropolitan University that studies how social media is changing the way people communicate, disseminate information, conduct business, and form communities.

• Fight disinformation
• Research and policy centers
• Media and social media analysis

A Searchable Database of X's Community Notes

• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis
• Dashboards

The portal is a resource for analysts, researchers, and members of the public who are interested in understanding the nature and scale of online misinformation and disinformation about the Russia-Ukraine war.

• Fight disinformation
• Civic maps
• Media and social media analysis

An App For Tracking Targeted Political Ads on Facebook and Instagram.

• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis
• Dashboards

Communalytic is a no-code computational social science research tool for studying online communities and public discourse on social media

• Media
• Data visualization
• Media and social media analysis

An AI-powered media observatory that measures bias, framing, and transparency in the Chilean press

• Artificial Intelligence
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Media and social media analysis

An open-source civic intelligence platform that scores every major U.S. political event on two axes: constitutional damage and media distraction. Publishes immutable weekly snapshots with full algorithmic transparency.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media
• Media and social media analysis

AI-curated global news that evaluates article relevance to humanity across four issue areas, with transparent methodology, a free public API, and no ads or tracking.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media
• Media and social media analysis

The DCKG API provides programmatic access to the Distroid Catalogue Knowledge Graph, a database of metadata on media from the grey literature and other non-traditional sources at the intersection of technology and society and to support efforts to improve the human-technology relationship

• Media
• Media and social media analysis
• Research tools

Un equipo de DJV Bootcamp analizó 113.649 posteos para descifrar esta nueva estrategia.

• Media
• Media and social media analysis
• Consumer watchdogging

We analysed the Twitter biographies of each UK Member of Parliament (MP) to see whether they mentioned their political party.

• Media
• Media and social media analysis

BirdXplorer is a tool for combating disinformation that uses Community Notes data from X (formerly Twitter).

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

Monitoring pro-Russian propaganda in Georgia

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media
• Fight disinformation

A Framework for Accessing High-Influence Public Platform Data

• Civic data
• Media and social media analysis

icemap.dev aims to provide a comprehensive view of the activities of America's Immigration Customs Agency (ICE), with specific focus on its Enforcement and Removal Operations department (ERO).

• Media
• Civic maps
• Media and social media analysis

By Chris Miles with Brandon Silverman and Anna Lenhart

• reports

• Civic data
• Media
• Media and social media analysis

Airtable of 250+ Social Media Monitoring Tools (Sept 2025)

• Media and social media analysis
• Civic tech catalogs

4CAT is a research tool that can be used to analyse and process data from online social platforms.

• Media and social media analysis
• General purpose open source tools
• Social media

Unlock insights from YouTube comments with the power of AI

• YouTube

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media and social media analysis
• Research tools

HEAT (Harmful Environmental Agendas & Tactics) is a unique cross-border investigation run by Logically and EU DisinfoLab uncovering how harmful climate narratives are deliberately seeded and amplified in Germany, France, and the Netherlands.

• Climate action
• reports

• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis
• Narrative tech

O Legislatech é uma ferramenta de clipping de órgãos públicos e da imprensa, com monitoramento em tempo real

• commercial

• Media
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

The automatic classifiers for peace group is an open-source community of researchers, organisations and individuals that are interested in aiding social media analysis through the automatic classification of social media discourse.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media
• Media and social media analysis

Phoenix is an open source, non-commercial platform designed to enable peacebuilders and mediators to conduct ethical and participatory social media listening in order to inform conflict transformation work.

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions
• peace

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media and social media analysis
• General purpose open source tools

Chúng tôi cung cấp đánh giá tổng quan, cụ thể, và hiệu quả, sử dụng social listening tools và là đối tác chiến lược của Viettel Reputa.

• Media and social media analysis
• Narrative tech
• Big listening

Tracking the role of algorithms on the spread of disinformation

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

Guardoni is a free software automated web scraper, used to collect data about platforms as Youtube and Tik Tok.

• YouTube
• TikTok

• Media and social media analysis
• Research tools

We are a collaborative and open-source project to develop software that tests for coordinated inauthentic behavior (CIB) in datasets of online activity.

• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis
• Research tools

• X (Twitter)

• Advocacy tech
• Media and social media analysis

TV Kitchen is an open source community making it easy to create, collect, and share tools to understand the impact of media. LEARN MORE READ THE DOCS

• Media
• Media and social media analysis
• General purpose open source tools

We are dedicated to shaping the future of technology through interdisciplinary research and collaboration. 

• Research and policy centers
• Media and social media analysis
• Academia

[A] dynamic prototype from MIT’s Center for Constructive Communication that identifies how words common in American political discourse are used differently across the political divide

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media
• Media and social media analysis

K-Monitor database is a searchable library of articles from the online media dealing with corruption, procurements, public spending and in general with the transparency of the public sphere.

• Media and social media analysis
• Media monitoring

Using our AI-assisted research methodologies we examined more than 30,000 videos relating to mainstream political discourse in the UK

• TikTok
• reports

• Advocacy tech
• Media and social media analysis
• Creators and Influencers

What is the impact of social media on the representation and voice of migrants and refugees in Europe? What are the challenges and opportunities to avoid their invisibilization and promote a fair representation?

• TikTok

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media and social media analysis
• AI Auditing

What is the impact of social media on the representation and voice of migrants and refugees in Europe? What are the challenges and opportunities to avoid their invisibilization and promote a fair representation?

• YouTube

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media and social media analysis
• AI Auditing

An AI project uses natural language processing to identify and neutralize hate speech on community radios in eastern DRC, enhancing social cohesion and stability in conflict-affected areas by providing reliable information through adapted radio content.

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions
• hate speech
• peace

• Media and social media analysis
• Speech recognition
• Natural Language Processing

We build innovative tools, methodologies, datasets and partnerships to further the diagnosis of systemic risks to internet integrity.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Media and social media analysis
• Consumer watchdogging

PGP’s Monitoring Lab employs several commercially available media monitoring systems that collect and organize publicly available information sources.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

Erika Bonnevie, Valeria Ricciulli, Megan Fields, Ruth O’Neill, 2023

• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

SSARE serves as an efficient and scalable resource for semantic search and article recommendations, catering primarily to political news data.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic data
• Media and social media analysis

The mission is to create an open-source data science and AI toolkit to analyse, summarise, and visualise political information.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media
• Media and social media analysis

The EU’s Digital Services Act mandates greater researcher data access from platforms; Mozilla and the National Conference on Citizenship investigated 19 platforms’ responses

• reports

• Media and social media analysis
• Research tools
• Report cards and audits

A campaign that harnesses the power of social media to disseminate innovative media outputs and generate dialogue in order to deliver a powerful counter-narrative against diverse forms of hate speech, including antisemitism, anti-Muslim hate, anti-Christian sentiment.

• hate speech
• Peace, justice, and strong institutions
• peace

• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis
• Social media

A collaborative work between DW Akademie and SocialLab to provide credible raw and aggregated data from Social Networks about crisis-related topics like COVID and Migration to support media practitioners and researchers with free access to public data

• refugees
• COVID-19

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

a collaborative project aimed at enabling protest groups and NGOs to evaluate their impact on public discourse.

• Advocacy tech
• Media and social media analysis

The AAPI Hate Tracker is a place where you can easily report incidents and connect to organizations to receive support.

• racial equity
• hate speech

• Crowdsourcing
• Media and social media analysis

TikTok Intelligence For US Politics

• TikTok

• Media
• Media and social media analysis

Track your policy impact

• Evaluate impact
• Media and social media analysis
• Research tools

Civil society organization craving for improved government, political parties, CSOs and businesses accountability with the introduction of reliable and innovative civic engagement solutions.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Media and social media analysis
• Watchdogging government

Find when something was said in a video or podcast with AI-powered SayWhen.us

• Media and social media analysis
• Research tools