Apps
As part of our work, the Lab develops public-facing information-integrity dashboards, along with research apps and tools, to support social science research on online participation and communities. Our apps and tools are used by thousands of students, educators and researchers worldwide each year. If you are interested in developing a custom version of any of our research tools or social media visualization dashboards, please get in touch with us.
Social Media Research & Knowledge Mobilization Tools
A no-code computational social science research tool for studying online communities and public discourse on social media.
A curated collection of more than 50 tools compiled by researchers at the Social Media Lab. Updated each year, it includes only tools used in peer-reviewed academic research.
An app designed to help researchers turn ideas into impact. Whether you’re just getting started or looking to improve your Knowledge Mobilization (KM) efforts, KM Compass will guide you through the process every step of the way.
Information Integrity Dashboards
An app for tracking ads about politics, elections, and social issues on Facebook and Instagram.
A searchable database of X's Community Notes with an analytics dashboard that displays live, real-time statistics.
A public-facing research portal that tracks and contextualizes the evolving use of deepfakes and synthetic media online.
An app that tracks, analyzes, and visualizes migration-related advertising on Facebook and Instagram to uncover trends, narratives, and patterns.
A research hub shining a light on how false and misleading information about the Russia-Ukraine war spreads online.
A detailed map of the web of Telegram channels and groups sharing news and updates about the Russia-Ukraine war.
A rapid response research hub that tracks and analyzes COVID-19-related misinformation. [ARCHIVED]
A catalogue of datasets containing billions of tweet IDs for COVID-19-related tweets, along with data visualization dashboards that display high-level monthly stats on COVID-19 conversations on Twitter. [Archived]
Open-source Projects
An open-source research tool designed to test the effectiveness of soft content-moderation measures on social media (a fork of the MockSocialMediaWebsite research tool).
A framework for optimizing graph layout and readability metrics for large networks. The framework automates parameter selection, layout computation, and readability metric calculation.
Lets you randomly sample from massive Tweet ID datasets (100M+) and perform set operations—such as intersections, differences, and unions—making large-scale Twitter data analysis simple and efficient.
An AI-powered chatbot for simple fact-checking. It was a prototype designed to demonstrate and test the feasibility of using AI technologies to mitigate the impact of online misinformation. (Circa 2023)