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PLAYED

Play or Get Played – the app antidote to deceptive political ads, from HonestAds.org.

apps
https://adobserver.org/ActiveOpen-source

Ad Observer

Political campaigns spend a lot of money to reach voters on Facebook. Are they telling the truth? Are they saying different things to different people? Help hold them accountable by installing our browser plugin, which sends us the ads you see on Facebook.

New York University
Facebook, YouTube, extensions

NYU Tandon Cybersecurity for Democracy

Cybersecurity for Democracy is a research-based effort to expose online threats to our social fabric – and recommend how to counter them. We are part of the Center for Cybersecurity at NYU.

New York University

Ad Watch

ad.watch breaks open the machine of political advertisements on Facebook and Instagram with data of more than 150 parties in 34 countries.

Arizona

Persuasion Watch

Through art, research, investigation and actions, the lab explores new ways of making issues around propaganda in the digital age better known. Persuasion Lab is a project by Manuel Beltrán and Nayantara Ranganathan.

Hamburg
https://whotargets.me/ActiveOpen-source

Who Targets Me

Did Facebook ads win the presidency for Donald Trump? Did they cause Brexit? Are they changing the way democracy works? Install Who Targets Me to find out who’s using Facebook ads to win your vote – and how they’re doing it.

London
2017
extensions

Swayable

Swayable lets political campaigns and brands measure how content changes people’s minds. Campaigns using Swayable increase their impact on opinions by measuring persuasion, breaking down exactly which kinds of people respond to which content.

New York City
2017

Soofa

Soofa makes smart, social, and sustainable technologies for cities and communities. We’re revolutionizing the way we communicate in cities.

24 Thorndike Street, Cambridge, MA 02141
2014
public space

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