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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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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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Pays
29 Jul 2020

Our News

Our News is a collaborative social network that strives to fight misinformation by allowing users to share articles that they consider to be true. The articles are then critically reviewed by other users. An algorithm is charged with moderating the platform, so as to reduce the amount of fake news submitted. Their label is Newstrition®.
VISIT THEIR WEBSITE
29 Jul 2020

FakerFact

Chrome and Firefox extension, based on an artificial intelligence tool named “Walt”, that aims to help users better understand what they read on the Internet. The goal is to identify cases in which articles are not written for the significance of their content, but rather to elicit a reaction, and a click, from the reader. The site insists that its AI does not detect if the article contains facts that are true or false, but only provides guidance on the possible biases that a statement could contain.
VISIT THEIR WEBSITE
29 Jul 2020

Rbutr

A web extension that allows users to see if the web page they are visiting has been criticized elsewhere on the internet. If a criticism has been reported, it is then possible to consult the web page that issued it in order to learn more about the content of the original page. The aim here is to develop Internet users’ critical thinking by providing them with differing opinions on a web page’s content. The extension encourages the confrontation of ideas, since it does not state which site is best.
VISIT THEIR WEBSITE
22 May 2020

Truthnest

Truthnest can detect the presence of bots among the followers of a Twitter subscriber.
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