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Fondation Descartes

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

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

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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.

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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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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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Category: Study

Misinformation online Survey  

This study by the Pew Research Center shows that between 2018 and 2021, U.S. citizens' stance on online misinformation has evolved.

Polarization and vaccination in the United States

This research highlights the polarization of the debate around vaccination against Covid-19 between Democrats and Republicans.

Army of fake fans boosts China’s messaging on Twitter

An investigation by the AP and the Oxford Internet Institute examines the propaganda spread by the Chinese Communist Party on Twitter.

What’s the Hold-up? How YouTube’s inaction allowed the spread of a major French COVID-19 conspiracy documentary

A study shows how the documentary Hold-Up remained available on YouTube despite containing false and misleading information.

The Digital Services Act: redefining hosting services and content moderation responsibilities

The Permanent Representation of the Netherlands to the European Union has published two studies that call for the redefinition of the status of “hosting” services and of their content moderation responsibilities.

Coordinated Inauthentic Bee-havior - The Thin Line Between Marketing and Political Propaganda: How an Egyptian Firm Ran Fake News Pages Targeting Ethiopia, Sudan and Turkey

This report by Graphika investigates Facebook’s dismantling of a network of Facebook and Instagram accounts from Egypt.

Mitigating Medical misinformation: a whole-of-society approach to countering spam, scams, and hoaxes

This study examines the media manipulation campaigns undertaken to weaken or discredit official medical recommendations and guidelines during the Covid-19 pandemic.

How 4chan and 8kun users rely on YouTube videos to spread climate change denialism

This study documents the dynamics of climate change denialism on the forums 4chan and 8kun.

David Sputnik vs. Goliath Pfizer

Also by DisinfoLab, this study analyzes the articles published by Russian government media outlets RT and Sputnik regarding Covid-19 vaccination currently circulating in francophone spaces on Twitter.

COVID-19 vaccine misinformation and Facebook: the challenge of moderating anti-vaxx and vaccine hesitant stances

This study by DisinfoLab examines the effectiveness of moderation efforts implemented by the social network Facebook in February 2021, in an attempt to eliminate false information circulating on their platform […]

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