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Fondation Descartes

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

Operations and governance

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

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.

Thematic overviews

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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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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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®.

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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.

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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.

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22 May 2020

Truthnest

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

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