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Fondation Descartes

The Fondation Descartes is a citizen-based, non-partisan, and independent European foundation dedicated to information-based issues.

Operation and governance

La Fondation Descartes est animée par trois organes : un Conseil d’Administration présidé par Jean-Philippe Hecketsweiler ; un Conseil Scientifique encadré par Gérald Bronner et d’une équipe permanente, dirigée par Laurent Cordonier, Directeur de la recherche.

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La Fondation Descartes est une initiative citoyenne, apartisane, indépendante et européenne dédiée aux enjeux de l’information, de la désinformation et du débat public dans une société démocratique.

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Events

The Descartes Foundation lists significant events, in France and internationally, particularly related to the topics of disinformation, interference and media literacy.

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Selection of 'must-listen' podcasts on the Descartes Foundation's fields of research, in French, English or German.

Actors

The Descartes Foundation offers you a cartography of the main actors involved in researching on the quality of information, or in fighting against disinformation, in France and throughout the world.

Initiatives

Fact checkers, web extensions, journalistic standards... The Fondation Descartes offers you a map of initiatives in France and around the world involved in asserting the quality of information or in fighting against disinformation.

Our references and resources

The Fondation Descartes' experts select and comment on key publications on disinformation, trust in the media and the Foundation's other research topics. This data base is available online to members of the Foundation and in the Foundation's documentation centre.

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05 May 2021

A US PR Firm Steps Into Contested Elections

On August 31, 2020, Facebook removed a network of Facebook and Instagram pages and accounts linked to the American strategic communications firm CLS Strategies for having engaged in coordinated “inauthentic” behavior.

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05 May 2021

Assessment of the Code of Practice on Disinformation, Achievements and areas for further improvement

Although this Code has been, according to the report, a “valuable instrument” in the fight against disinformation, the document mostly highlights its limitations and shortcomings, “mainly due to the Code’s self-regulatory nature.”

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30 Apr 2021

Facebook/Instagram - Transparency report

Facebook has published its annual “transparency” report. The first chapter is dedicated to the platform’s community guidelines,

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29 Apr 2021

Election Fraud Narrative

This project aims to identify YouTube videos discussing the topic of election fraud as it pertains to the most recent U.S. presidential elections.

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29 Apr 2021

Hatebook – Facebook’s neo-Nazi shopfronts funding far-right extremism

The Center for Countering Digital Hate has published a report concerning the presence of neo-Nazi advertisements on the social network Facebook.

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29 Apr 2021

Working Group On Infodemics

The Forum on Information and Democracy's report offers recommendations on how to respond to the information chaos present online.

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29 Apr 2021

Transparency, communication and trust: The role of public communication in responding to the wave of disinformation about the new coronavirus

The propagation of the COVID-19 virus has been accompanied by a wave of disinformation that has undermined policy responses and amplified distrust and concerns among citizens.

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29 Apr 2021

Canaries
in The Coal Mine: Covid-19 Misinformation And Black Communities

False information regarding COVID-19 is spreading through Black online spaces writes Brandi Collins-Dexter.

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14 Oct 2020

Four Theories of the Press: The Authoritarian, Libertarian, Social Responsibility, and Soviet Communist Concepts of What the Press Should Be and Do

Presented here are four major theories behind the functioning of the world's presses: (1) the Authoritarian theory, which developed in the late Renaissance and was based on the idea that […]

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12 Oct 2020

The Empire of Beliefs

How can we understand the metamorphoses and current forms of belief? Why do some beliefs spread rapidly in public opinion and others do not? What are the social contexts that […]

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Our references and resources

A US PR Firm Steps Into Contested Elections

Assessment of the Code of Practice on Disinformation, Achievements and areas for further improvement

Facebook/Instagram - Transparency report

Election Fraud Narrative

Hatebook – Facebook’s neo-Nazi shopfronts funding far-right extremism

Working Group On Infodemics

Transparency, communication and trust: The role of public communication in responding to the wave of disinformation about the new coronavirus

Canariesin The Coal Mine: Covid-19 Misinformation And Black Communities

Four Theories of the Press: The Authoritarian, Libertarian, Social Responsibility, and Soviet Communist Concepts of What the Press Should Be and Do

The Empire of Beliefs

Canaries
in The Coal Mine: Covid-19 Misinformation And Black Communities