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

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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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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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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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Category: Book

Improvised news : a sociological study of rumors

Shibutani seeks to develop a model for the phenomenon of rumors, through the analysis of its appearances during critical events (disasters, historical turning points). He believes this method to be […]

The era of conspiracy theories

Since 9/11, conspiratorial theories have proliferated on the Internet, sowing mistrust of the official discourse and polarizing our society. Presenting themselves as "alternatives", they claim to re-establish a misguided "truth". […]

The civilization of the goldfish, A short treatise on the attention market

24 hours in our lives? A hell of inattention. Up to 5 hours in front of the smartphone. And 30 activations per waking hour. Hundreds of messages, solicitations, information, rumours, […]

The Black Box Society, The Secret algorithms that control money and information

Every day, corporations are connecting the dots about our personal behavior - silently scutinizing clues left behind by our work habits and Internet use. But who connects the dots about […]

The Principle of Budget Sincerity

Recognised as a reference standard, the principle of sincerity in finance laws permeates the entire budgetary and financial process. In terms of effectiveness, the principle of sincerity is about to […]

1984

"The blackmoustachio'd face gazed downfrom every commanding corner. There was one on the house-frontimmediately opposite. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption said, while the dark eyes looked deep into […]

The media, the world and I

Is it possible to renew the journalistic profession? Is it possible to adopt a different stance between producer and consumer of news so as to instore trust? Through this investigation, […]

The Death of expertise. The Campaign against Established knowledge and why it matters.

Thanks to technological advances and increasing levels of education, we have access to more information than ever before. Yet rather than ushering in a new era of enlightenment, the information […]

The Triumph of Doubt. Dark Money and the science of deception

The Triumph of Doubt traces the ascendance of science-for-hire in American life and government, from its origins in the tobacco industry in the 1950s to its current manifestations across government, […]

#info. Comenting and sharing news on Twitter and Facebook

More and more often, journalistic information is directly posted on the 'feeds' of our social medias, especially on Facebook or Twitter, but also on LinkedIn or Snapchat and of course […]

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