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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.

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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 thematic overviews written by its research team on major themes related to information and disinformation.

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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."

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.

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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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#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 […]

Primitive Reflexes

Europe is worried. This is the time to listen to the words of the greatest European philosopher of our time, known for his vigorous thinking and iconoclastic ideas. In four […]

The post-truth era : Dishonesty and Deception in Contemporary Life

Deception has become the modern way of life. Where once the boundary line between truth and lies was clear and distinct, it is no longer so. In the post-truth era, […]

Toxic Sludge Is Good for You ! Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry

This book blows the lid off of today's multi-billion-dollar propaganda-for-hire PR industry, revealing how public relations wizards concoct and spin the news, organize phony "grassroots" front groups, spy on citizens […]

Theory of opinions

In the current state of knowledge, we know a lot about survey techniques but we do not know how to answer the question: what is public opinion? This book identifies […]

Human nature in politics

The study of politics is in an unsatisfactory position, writes Graham Wallas in 1908. Throughout Europe and America, representative democracy is generally accepted as the best form of government; but […]

Peoplecraty : the Metamorphosis of our Democracies

Peopleocracy is the result of a twofold process. On the one hand, the rise of populist movements and parties; on the other hand, by contamination effect, the modification of the […]

Foules en délires, extases collectives : study on methods of mysticism

This work by M. de Félice is the third in a series devoted to the comparative study of some of the principal methods of mysticism, a series which began in […]

Media control : the Spectacular achievements of Propaganda

Chomsky's backpocket classic on wartime propaganda and opinion control has been updated and expanded into a two-section book, and redesigned following the acclaimed format of his Open Media anti-war bestseller, […]

In Praise of Reason: Why Rationality Matters for Democracy

Why does reason matter, if (as many people seem to think) in the end everything comes down to blind faith or gut instinct? Why not just go with what you […]

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