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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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Our podcasts

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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30 Jul 2020

PublicEditor

PublicEditor is a software that allows users to critically read and analyze news articles found online and to subsequently share their work. The software relies on the expertise of qualified volunteers to critique articles in a constructive manner. Members examine factual errors, errors in reasoning and psychological biases to assign a score to each article, which ultimately allows for a more informed opinion.

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30 Jul 2020

Bitpress News

Bitpress News is a nonpartisan corporation founded in 2017 to fight against misinformation. They detect misinformation spread online (memes, articles, videos, tweets) via technology (data science) and the contributions of expert analysts. Their goal is to prevent the dissemination of all forms of misinformation by publishing their results on digital platforms.

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30 Jul 2020

Trusted News

Trusted News is a tool that allows its users to consult an opinion on the news websites they consult. It is a tool offered by MetaCert Protocol, which provides an array of Internet security software. Belongs to FactMata.

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30 Jul 2020

Factmata

Service offering protection against false information from a dual perspective. The first is the protection of the general public; the second concerns businesses and intends to protect advertisers by allowing them to evaluate the content published on a media platform from which they would like to purchase advertising placements. The tool utilizes artificial intelligence in order to identify hate speech, propaganda, fake news networks and statements aimed at eliciting “clicks” from Internet users without providing adequate or qualitative content.

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30 Jul 2020

AFP Factuel

Journalists from Agence France Presse review false information regarding the coronavirus pandemic, and publish their assessment on AFP's website and social media accounts.

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30 Jul 2020

CaptainFact

CaptainFact underlines the increased prevalence of confirmation bias in the Internet age. The website offers to rate news-related YouTube videos by displaying a green logo when the information is correct, and a red logo when it is false.

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30 Jul 2020

Checknews Libération

Search engine operated by journalists from Libération, in the form of questions submitted by web users to journalists.

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30 Jul 2020

News Guard

News Guard relies on the expertise of journalists to sort through and gauge the legitimacy of news and information platforms. The site offers a color-based grading system (green and red) and tries to detect biases that would be concealed from readers, as well as propaganda articles or deliberately false statements. News Guard also proposes a quality label for information.

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29 Jul 2020

Fiskkit

Users import an article’s link onto the website. Once uploaded, they can comment on the article. Articles already present in the platform’s database can also be commented on by all users. Each sentence of the articles can be commented and annotated according to whether they are true, false, satirical, biased, ...

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29 Jul 2020

Hypothesis

The purpose of the website is to enable an open-ended debate regarding the content that is available on the Internet. The idea of the site is to allow its users to annotate web pages in the same way they would annotate books. The aim is to provide clarifications and corrections to the web page’s contents. The platform is intended to be completely free of access, free of charge and does not seek profit. Its revenue comes from private sponsors, such as for example the foundation created by the founder of eBay. All users are also encouraged to donate if they wish.

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