Creating future‑defining technology

We develop new technology and conduct research to protect open societies, and inspire scalable solutions.

Confronting the threat of disinformation

As the tactics of disinformation campaigns become more sophisticated, we’re building new technology to strengthen our collective defenses.

Experiments

Assembler

An experimental platform that uses new detection technology to help fact-checkers and journalists identify manipulated media, built in partnership with Google Research and academic institutions.
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Deepfake Dataset

A groundbreaking dataset of deepfake videos, to help develop better detection technology, built in partnership with Google Research.
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StyleGAN Detector

An experimental detector model that identifies a particular type of manipulated media on the internet.
Currently testing within Assembler

Disinformation Data Visualizer

This project visualizes the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab research on coordinated disinformation campaigns.
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Protecting voices in conversation

Online abuse and toxicity stops people from engaging in conversation and, in extreme cases, forces people offline. We’re finding new ways to reduce toxicity, and ensure everyone can safely participate in online conversations.

Product and Experiments

Perspective API

Perspective API uses machine learning to identify toxic language, making it easier to host better conversations online. Perspective is used to give feedback to commenters, help moderators more easily review comments, and keep conversations open online.
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Tune

A Chrome extension that helps people adjust the level of toxicity they see in comments across the internet.
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Moderator

An open-source tool that uses machine learning to help moderators identify and reduce toxicity in forums and comment sections.
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Protecting participation in the global internet

Much of the world’s internet users experience digital censorship that restricts access to news, information, and messaging apps. We’re building tools to help people access the global internet.

Products and Standards

Outline

Outline makes it easy to set up your own virtual private network (VPN) and share it with your network for safer, more resilient access to the open internet.
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Intra

An Android app that lets you access websites and apps blocked by domain name blocking, one of the most common forms of censorship online.
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Project Shield

A free service that defends news, civil society, election monitoring, and political campaign websites from distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, a cheap cyberattack used to take down websites.
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Encrypting internet standards

We work with internet governance forums and platforms to help make the internet safer and more resilient to censorship methods.

Protect Your Election

During elections, access to accurate information is vital. We built a suite of tools for candidates, campaigns, publishers, journalists, NGOs, and election-monitoring sites to help protect against digital attacks.
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Countering violent extremism and radicalization online

Jigsaw uses research and technology to help identify and intervene in the online recruiting process of violent extremist groups.

Program

Redirect Method

The Redirect Method is an open-source program, run by Google, Moonshot CVE and others, which uses targeted ads and curated YouTube videos uploaded by people all around the world to confront online radicalization. By focusing on those already searching for extremist content on Google Search, Redirect serves at-risk individuals content that debunks extremists' recruiting messages.
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Our methods

Our work is broadly categorized into three types of projects.

Experiments

We begin by experimenting with innovative uses of technology to defend against emerging threats. These experiments help us test new ideas and inform product development.

Products

We build products that help people around the world stay safer online.

Programs

We create programs to apply our research, technology, and training to critical issues such as election integrity and violence against women online.

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Creating future‑defining technology

Disinformation

Confronting the threat of disinformation

Experiments

Assembler

Deepfake Dataset

StyleGAN Detector

Disinformation Data Visualizer

Toxicity

Protecting voices in conversation

Product and Experiments

Perspective API

Tune

Moderator

Censorship

Protecting participation in the global internet

Products and Standards

Outline

Intra

Project Shield

Encrypting internet standards

Protect Your Election

Violent Extremism

Countering violent extremism and radicalization online

Program

Redirect Method

Our methods

Our work is broadly categorized into three types of projects.

Experiments

Products

Programs

The Current