Our report defines what risk assessments, audits, and mitigation plans should include to cover algorithmic systems used by online platforms.

No social media app wants to become known as a center for awful content. The reality is bad behavior and bad actors are inevitable on social media platforms. This resource provides companies facing these challenges guidance on how to address them early, build in integrity systems from the start, and get to a healthy platform growth cycle, which sets the company up for long-term success.

Elections matter, and history has demonstrated online platforms will find themselves grappling with these challenges whether they want to be or not. This guide provides companies – large or small, established or new-on-the-block – concrete details as they fully implement an elections integrity program.

As a wave of new regulations and legislative proposals around transparency from social media platforms are being written all over the world, the Integrity Institute is releasing a new resource to provide a high-level overview of what platform transparency could look like and what it could accomplish.

With a wave of 65 elections across 54 countries coming in 2024, including a US presidential election, the Integrity Institute is releasing a new guide – the first in a planned series – on best practices for online companies to help better support healthy elections across platforms, particularly those who are newer or smaller.

In this presentation, we help you understand how the platforms are designed and how their ranking algorithms work.

Here we’ll help you understand the scale and cause of harms occurring on social media platforms.

Led by Katie Harbath, our Elections Integrity Program collects the expertise of our community of integrity professionals to help understand the impact the social media platforms have on elections and protect democratic elections around the world.

Integrity Institute delineates the best practices we advocate for Child Safety across all digital platforms.

As part of our Elections Integrity Program, the Integrity Institute is tracking how misinformation performs on platforms to measure the extent to which platforms are amplifying misinformation, and the extent to which they are creating an incentive structure that rewards lies and misinformation online.

We are independently analyzing all of the Facebook’s Widely Viewed Content Reports (WVCR) and keeping track of various data and statistics.

Developed in cooperation with Pinterest and UC Berkeley, we share how to use non-engagement signals for content ranking in social platforms.

Think social media is bad? AI could make it worse. The good news: we can fix both. AI’s rise closely mirrors the rise of social media platforms in the early 2000s. In fact, many of the challenges to developing and adopting “safe” AI are the same challenges integrity workers have faced for years as they have built and operated social media platforms.

Tom Cunningham worked as economist and data scientist at Facebook and Twitter, working on content moderation and company strategy. As Resident Fellow since June 2023, Tom will conduct various original research projects on social platforms and social media.

Institute co-founder Jeff Allen presented at TrustCon in July 2023.

Institute founding fellow Naomi Shiffman presented at the George Washington University in October 2022.

Institute co-founder Sahar Massachi delivered the keynote at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue in July 2022.

Institute co-founder Jeff Allen delivered the keynote at the EU Radicalisation Awareness Network in June 2022.

Institute co-founder Jeff Allen presented to physicians at the Oakland Department of Psychiatry in June 2022.