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Pro-social usage of social media platforms, such as to draw attentions to causes or protect people from hate speech.
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A collection of over 65 AT Protocol apps beyond BlueSky, by Tynan Purdy
Eurosky Portal
EuropeA simple interface to help people navigate the Atmosphere - a new generation of apps & services on the web developed by an ever-growing number of startups, developers & organisations.
LLMs Tools for Public Discourse
United States of America 🇺🇸This is an evolving dataset of LLM Tools that are used to support Public Discourse across digital media platforms.
Mapping LLMs Tools for Public Discourse, Pluralism & Social Cohesion
United States of America 🇺🇸Plurality Institute and Council on Technology and Social Cohesion gathered over seventy researchers and technologists to answer the question: how can we harness that enormous power to foster public discourse, pluralism, and social cohesion in digital spaces?
Building the social internet.
"Your Custom Feed" feature on YouTube
Mountain View, CAA YouTube feature to let users customize recommendations on their Home feed. Currently available to signed-in viewers in the U.S. on the YouTube mobile app or desktop in English (May 2026).
"Dear Algo" on Threads
Facebook, Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CAAn AI feature test on Threads that lets users talk to their recommender feed algorithm and make requests in natural language. The requests are viewable by other users.
Bluesky Custom Feeds
SeattleCustom feeds allow third party developers to create entirely new feeds that users can install.
Automated label service allowing you to hide Twitter and other screenshots.
Brief For The Hearing At The European Parliament On DSA Enforcement And The Protection Of Minors
WarsawIn this brief, prepared for the purpose of the hearing organised by EPP and Renew on DSA Enforcement and the protection of minors, we tried to match the most promising claims made by VLOPs with evidence coming from independent research or civil society investigations.
Sparkable
ZürichSparkable is a nonprofit aiming to strengthen democracy and social cohesion by rebuilding social media into a force for good.
This document contains guidance aimed at supporting providers of VLOPs and VLOSEs to ensure that, where appropriate, they comply with their obligation to mitigate specific risks linked to electoral processes.
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eurosky
EuropeEurosky is building the future of social media—open, pluralistic, and made in Europe.
WIRED’s 2025 Political Power Users
San FranciscoThe creators, podcasters, and pundits who will blow up the next electoral era
From Dashboards to Data Acquisition: Charting the Social Media Monitoring Market
The George Washington University, I Street Northwest, Washington, DCBy Chris Miles with Brandon Silverman and Anna Lenhart
4CAT is a research tool that can be used to analyse and process data from online social platforms.
Applied Social Media Lab (ASML)
Berkman Center For Internet, Everett Street, Cambridge, MAThe Applied Social Media Lab at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center brings together technologists and practitioners to reimagine, rebuild, and reboot social media to serve the public good and establish a long-lasting community of practice.
Bluesky
SeattleWe’re building an open foundation for the social internet so that we can all shape its future.
BuzzFeed Unveils Plan to Take Back the Internet We Love; Company Aims to Disrupt Social Media With a New AI-Driven Platform Built for Creativity and Joy, Not Manipulation or Addiction
Free Our Feeds
Washington, DCSave Social Media From Billionaire Capture.
Social Media Election Policies Tracker
Pittsburgh, PAThe Social Media Election Policy Tracker is a tool created to broadly chronicle a timeline of selected social media companies’ evolving policies which have impacted the information environment related to U.S. elections and campaigns from 2016 – the present.
Get the Trolls Out
EuropeA 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.
A training program for digital community stewards (online group moderators and admins) focused on building social cohesion in online communities, and creating inclusive, engaging, and safe digital experiences within their online groups.
Webby-award winning social video promoting women's ability to choose
Webby-award winning social video by the US Holocaust Museum
Like, Share, Change: Youth, politics & the digital sphere
Tunisia (Tunis) 🇹🇳Fostering youth engagement in Tunisia
Decentralized Social Networking Protocol (DSNP)
New York City (NYC / New York, NY)The Decentralized Social Networking Protocol establishes a shared social graph that is no longer dependent on a specific application or a centralized platform.
Digital Account Management Toolkit
Ireland (Éire) 🇮🇪A free downloadable resource from Digital Charity Lab and ODV Digital, to help you ensure that your organisation doesn’t get locked out of its social media or other digital accounts.
A federated social media platform alternative to Twitter (X)
FediPlan is an open source application (source code) built for scheduling your messages with Mastodon or Pleroma (2.7+).
Meta's Trusted Partners
Facebook, Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA"Bringing local context to our global standards...Our network of Trusted Partners includes over 400 non-governmental organizations, humanitarian agencies, human rights defenders and researchers from 113 countries around the globe."
Platform://Democracy
Humboldt-Institut Berlin, Invalidenstraße, Berlin, GermanyThe project "Platform://Democracy: Platform Councils as Tools to Democratize Hybrid Online Orders" examines how the rules of discourse on platforms can be aligned with public values
Report by Ada Lovelace Institute
At the Integrity Institute, we are tracking how misinformation performs on platforms to measure the extent to which platforms are amplifying misinformation, and the extent to which they are creating an incentive structure that rewards lies and misinformation online.
We asked experts on social media to grade how ready Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, and YouTube are to handle the task.
Uli
India (Bhārat) 🇮🇳Uli lets you take control over your Twitter timeline by redacting slurs, allowing you to archive problematic tweets and coordinating actions with your friends.
Meta
Facebook, Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CAThe company behind Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram
Sobrevivendo nas Redes: Guia do Cidadão
Brazil (Brasil) 🇧🇷A free book on how to survive on social media networks
The Demography Project TikTok
Kenya 🇰🇪IDADI is our flagship data journalism project, in collaboration with The Infographics Studio, to disseminate, visualize and democratize official data on TikTok to allow Kenyans participate in decision making and enhance government accountability.
IREX’s Learn to Discern approach builds resilience to manipulative information by empowering those who engage with media and information to navigate it in a safe, critical, responsible, healthy, and empathy-driven way.
Sobrevivendo nas Redes (Surviving on the networks)
Brazil (Brasil) 🇧🇷The "Surviving the Networks" project aims to strengthen civic culture in Brazil by offering information and strategies on how to better inform oneself in social networks.
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