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

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The Fondation Descartes is structured around three main bodies: a board of directors chaired by Jean-Philippe Hecketsweiler; a scientific advisory board led by Gérald Bronner; and a permanent team headed by Laurent Cordonier, director of research.

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Each year, the Fondation Descartes publishes an in-depth study on one of its key topics related to disinformation: conflicts, health, or climate. Explore these publications in full.

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The Fondation Descartes publishes contributions from its affiliated experts, who speak in a personal capacity. The expert circle is multidisciplinary, including specialists from information and communication sciences, cognitive and behavioral sociology, international relations, philosophy, psychology, and journalism.

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The Fondation Descartes organises annual conferences revolving around health, climate and conflict disinformation.

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In its efforts to tackle disinformation, the Fondation Descartes joins forces with other key players in the information ecosystem.

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With France Info, the Fondation Descartes explores historical disinformation in its podcast series "Les Infox de l'Histoire."

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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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Transparency, communication and trust: The role of public communication in responding to the wave of disinformation about the new coronavirus

The propagation of the COVID-19 virus has been accompanied by a wave of disinformation that has undermined policy responses and amplified distrust and concerns among citizens.

Truth in Advertising? Lies in Political Advertising and How They Affect the Electorate

This book represents the first systematic effort to examine the factual accuracy of the claims made in an entire political advertising campaign, the visuals and sound cues used in that […]

Freedom of speech

An overview of various significant texts relating to this right and its limits, particularly in France and the United States. The attacks against Charlie Hebdo on January 7, 2015 rekindled […]

Journalism in a democracy

What role does journalism play in a democracy? What does it mean to see and render visible the contemporary world? What is the political significance of such an activity? Does […]

The Subversion

Professor Roger Mucchielli retraces the modern history of subversion and analyzes its mechanisms and major events. A radical change has taken place in the conception of modern warfare. Today, war […]

The Contagion of ideas

Where do our ideas come from? Some come from ourselves, or so we think, but most of them are communicated to us by others, and we pass them on in […]

Useless knowledge

Never before has communication been so fast and so present. Never, therefore, in theory, have political, economic and cultural decision-makers worked in better conditions, and never has public opinion had […]

Storytelling: the mind-forming machine

Humanity has always known how to cultivate the art of storytelling, an art at the heart of social bonds. But since the 1990s, in the United States and then in […]

Understanding the media

In a culture like ours, long accustomed to splitting and dividing all things as a means of control, it is sometimes a bit of a shock to be reminded that, […]

Propaganda, communication and public opinion

Three major trends have shaped the character and ordered the development of American communication channels. The first has been the rise of democracy. The second is the technological and industrial […]

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