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The Fondation Descartes

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

Operations and Governance

The Fondation Descartes is structured around three main bodies: a board of directors chaired by Jean-Philippe Hecketsweiler; a scientific advisory board led by Gérald Bronner; and a permanent team headed by Laurent Cordonier, director of research.

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Our reports

Each year, the Fondation Descartes publishes an in-depth study on one of its key topics related to disinformation: conflicts, health, or climate. Explore these publications in full.

Thematic overviews

The Fondation Descartes publishes thematic overviews written by its research team on major themes related to information and disinformation.

Experts' blog

The Fondation Descartes publishes contributions from its affiliated experts, who speak in a personal capacity. The expert circle is multidisciplinary, including specialists from information and communication sciences, cognitive and behavioral sociology, international relations, philosophy, psychology, and journalism.

Our annual conferences

The Fondation Descartes organises annual conferences revolving around health, climate and conflict disinformation.

Our partnerships

In its efforts to tackle disinformation, the Fondation Descartes joins forces with other key players in the information ecosystem.

Our podcasts

With France Info, the Fondation Descartes explores historical disinformation in its podcast series "Les Infox de l'Histoire."

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.

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Category: Acteurs

Bertelsmann Stiftung

The Bertelsmann Foundation participates in research and in the financing of projects related to education, culture, European themes and democracy. 

Heinrich Böll Stiftung

Heinrich Böll Stitung is the foundation of the German Green Party, which contributes to the reflection on media and democracy in the digital age. 

Presserat

Presserat is the foremost union for journalists in Germany. It notably undertakes actions to guarantee the ethical criteria of journalistic information, namely with regards to information manipulation, via the PresseKodex initiative.

Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften

The Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities oversees several projects whose common overarching theme concerns the moral responsibility of political and economic actors, particularly with regards to information. 

University Foreign Interference Taskforce

Task force established by the Australian Ministry of Education. It provides universities with improved protection against foreign intereference. It jointly defines, along with the Australian government and universities, a set of practices intended to promote a trusting environment.

GIGA (German Institute of Global and Area Studies)

This think tank encompasses a vast array of research subjects. Nonetheless, several of their projects focus on democratic institutions and deal with, among other things, questions pertaining to information: do better-informed voters seek more elite responsiveness to their demands.

Leibniz-Gemeinschaft

The association of the Leibniz Institutes coordinates efforts to promote good scientific practices ("theoria cum praxi") in every domain, including information.

DFR Lab

The DFR Lab Lab is included in the think tank “The Atlantic Council”. It promotes research on disinformation and human rights abuses. It also creates a network of analysts tracking disinformation on a global scale and advice governments to better tackle disinformation.
Contact: DFRLab@AtlanticCouncil.org
Website: https://medium.com/dfrlab

Social Observatory for Disinformation and Social Media Analysis

Co-funded by the European Union, the Social Observatory for Disinformation and Social Media Analysis follows the communication of the European Commission on tackling online disinformation by bringing together civil society actors across Europe fighting disinformation. This network is made of independent actors and policy makers.
Contact: info@disinfobservatory.org
Website: https://www.disinfobservatory.org

Open Information Partnership

The Open Information Partnership is a network of established organisations (NGOs, charities, academics, thinktanks, journalists, factcheckers and activists) across Europe. Open Information Partnership describes on its website that “the only way to beat the manipulation of information is through open discourse and critical thinking: we need to know where our information is coming from, we need to know the motives (good, bad or neither) of those providing the information, and we need to be in the habit of thinking critically about everything we read and hear.” To reach that goal, the Partnership provides facts and sources for information.

Contact: hello@openinformationpartnership.org

Website: https://www.openinformationpartnership.org

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