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X (Twitter)

(x.com) is a general-purpose social media platform where users post short messages, images, and video, follow accounts, and join public conversation in real time.

Twitter HQ, Market Street, San Francisco, CA, USA
commercial, X (Twitter)

Empathy Helps Counter Hate Speech

A team of researchers led by Dominik Hangartner, IPL co-director and professor of public policy at ETH Zurich, has joined forces with colleagues at the University of Zurich to investigate what kind of messages could lead authors of hate speech to refrain from such postings in the future

Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, USA
hate speech, X (Twitter)

Misinformation exposure

Misinformation exposure scores measure how much the politicians and public organizations you follow tend to lie (based on fact-checking their claims by PolitiFact).

X (Twitter)

Uli

Uli lets you take control over your Twitter timeline by redacting slurs, allowing you to archive problematic tweets and coordinating actions with your friends.

India
Gender Equality, hate speech, X (Twitter), Online Gender-Based Violence (OGBV), extensions

Tuits borrados

A Politwoops instance for Argentina. En esta página hay un listado de los mensajes que eliminan los políticos argentinos en Twitter.

Argentina
X (Twitter)

Troll Tracker / Twoops Tracker

Track the trolls & sock-puppets poisoning our democracies

Africa, Asia
X (Twitter)

Bot Sentinel

In 2018 we launched Bot Sentinel to help fight disinformation and targeted harassment. We believe Twitter users should be able to engage in healthy online discourse without inauthentic accounts, toxic trolls, foreign countries, and organized groups manipulating the conversation.

X (Twitter)

Social Media Analysis Toolkit (SMAT)

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.

Mozilla, East Evelyn Avenue, Mountain View, CA, USA
X (Twitter), Reddit

Tweet-e-ology

What do your tweets make other people think about your political views? If you are an American Twitter user, log-in to our app below to see how how our model scores your tweets on a continuum from "very liberal" to "very conservative."

X (Twitter)