The Disinfo Defense League (DDL) is a distributed national network of organizers, researchers and disinformation experts disrupting online racialized disinformation infrastructure and campaigns that deliberately target Black, Latinx, Asian American/Pacific Islander and other communities of color.
Parent organization: Media Democracy Fund
Project(s): Disinfo Defense League Policy Platform
A working group of the Max Planck Institute for Political and Social Science. Informational Democracy publishes provocations, groundings, and reflections on topics such as collective intelligence, the role of AI in democratic systems, attention as a democratic resource, and the infrastructural transformation of the public sphere.
Democracy .one is a nonprofit "civic social platform" that turns people's civic opinions into structured Polls, Scores, and Ranks, clusters differently-worded expressions of the same position together, and aggregates them into a continuously-updating, comparable measure of public opinion it calls the "Civic Mirror."
Chattanooga has launched a pilot with Google's Jigsaw and Change.org called Civic Dialogue, that gathers residents' ideas on parks and transit, then uses "Sensemaking AI" to surface the proposals with the broadest support before a group of residents workshops them into policy.
