The conversations that trend on internet platforms shape our world in consequential ways, from who we vote for, to what news we read, to how we respond to a pandemic.
SMAT uses intuitive UX and crisp data visualizations to unpack what’s being said on Twitter, Reddit, 4chan, and 8chan (Insight into other platforms, like Telegram, Parler, and Gab will be available soon.) SMAT’s database structure means that results load instantly; on similar tools, loading can be slow due to integration with various APIs. All results can be exported via CSV. The SMAT team is also developing publicly-accessible tools for monitoring the U.S. elections, such as interactive network graphs of politicians that help to map things like spheres of influence and partisanship.
Chronolocation Calculator is a free open-source-intelligence tool that verifies when and where a photo or video was taken by computing the sun's position, altitude, azimuth, and expected shadows for given coordinates, date and time, returning a citable forensic report.
Digital Oblivion: How Autocrats Engineer Forgetting is an event hosted by the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.
Autistici/Inventati is a long-running Italian digital-rights collective providing privacy-respecting email, hosting, and internet tools to grassroots activists and social movements, now running a campaign against a US terrorist designation it says threatens its servers.
The Civil Liberties Union for Europe is an EU-focused human rights watchdog organization working to inform and mobilize citizens for the protection and enjoyment of human rights for all.
