Confronting digital threats to Democracies.
We are a non-profit Civic Tech research lab working to fight digital threats against truth, democracy, and social unity. We’ve seen across the global south that democratic processes are a toxic mix between deliberate disinformation, unintentional misinformation, existing social rifts, and increasing polarization. With developments in technology, confronting digital threats like deep or cheap fakes to democracies is going to be even harder.
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.
