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Fondation Descartes

The Fondation Descartes is a citizen-based, non-partisan, and independent European foundation dedicated to information-based issues.

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La Fondation Descartes est animée par trois organes : un Conseil d’Administration présidé par Jean-Philippe Hecketsweiler ; un Conseil Scientifique encadré par Gérald Bronner et d’une équipe permanente, dirigée par Laurent Cordonier, Directeur de la recherche.

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La Fondation Descartes est une initiative citoyenne, apartisane, indépendante et européenne dédiée aux enjeux de l’information, de la désinformation et du débat public dans une société démocratique.

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The Descartes Foundation lists significant events, in France and internationally, particularly related to the topics of disinformation, interference and media literacy.

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Selection of 'must-listen' podcasts on the Descartes Foundation's fields of research, in French, English or German.

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The Descartes Foundation offers you a cartography of the main actors involved in researching on the quality of information, or in fighting against disinformation, in France and throughout the world.

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Fact checkers, web extensions, journalistic standards... The Fondation Descartes offers you a map of initiatives in France and around the world involved in asserting the quality of information or in fighting against disinformation.

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The Fondation Descartes' experts select and comment on key publications on disinformation, trust in the media and the Foundation's other research topics. This data base is available online to members of the Foundation and in the Foundation's documentation centre.

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02 Jul 2021

Coordinated Inauthentic Bee-havior - The Thin Line Between Marketing and Political Propaganda: How an Egyptian Firm Ran Fake News Pages Targeting Ethiopia, Sudan and Turkey

This report by Graphika investigates Facebook’s dismantling of a network of Facebook and Instagram accounts from Egypt.

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02 Jul 2021

Mitigating Medical misinformation: a whole-of-society approach to countering spam, scams, and hoaxes

This study examines the media manipulation campaigns undertaken to weaken or discredit official medical recommendations and guidelines during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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02 Jul 2021

How 4chan and 8kun users rely on YouTube videos to spread climate change denialism

This study documents the dynamics of climate change denialism on the forums 4chan and 8kun.

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02 Jul 2021

David Sputnik vs. Goliath Pfizer

Also by DisinfoLab, this study analyzes the articles published by Russian government media outlets RT and Sputnik regarding Covid-19 vaccination currently circulating in francophone spaces on Twitter.

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25 Jun 2021

COVID-19 vaccine misinformation and Facebook: the challenge of moderating anti-vaxx and vaccine hesitant stances

This study by DisinfoLab examines the effectiveness of moderation efforts implemented by the social network Facebook in February 2021, in an attempt to eliminate false information circulating on their platform […]

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25 Jun 2021

Uncertain knowledge. Studying "conspiracies" and "truth" in the digital age

The online journal RESET provides free access to a series of articles discussing disinformation.

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25 Jun 2021

Facebook's Climate of Deception: How Viral Misinformation Fuels the Climate Emergency

This study analyzes disinformation related to climate science and renewable energy spread on Facebook during the first 60 days of President Biden’s term in office in the United States.

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24 Jun 2021

How Indian fact-checkers dealt with COVID-19 misinformation

This study examines all of the news stories related to Covid-19 that have been verified by the International Fact-Checking Network in 2020 in India.

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24 Jun 2021

The disinformation threat from text-generating AI

This study shows that automated text-generating models have achieved such levels of sophistication and precision that they could be used to fuel disinformation campaigns.

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07 May 2021

Malgorithm: How Instagram’s algorithm publishes misinformation and hate to millions during a pandemic

This report by the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) analyzes the way in which Instagram’s new algorithm (put in place in August 2020) recommends misinformation to users via its “Explore” and “Suggested Posts” features.

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