As part of our work, the Lab develops research apps, tools and visualization dashboards 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 Data Collection & Analysis Tools

Communalytic is a computational social science research tool for studying online communities and discourse. It can collect and analyze publicly available data from Bluesky, CrowdTangle (FB/IG), Mastodon, Reddit, Telegram, X (formerly Twitter), and YouTube, or you can import your own CSV or JSON data files – No coding required.
Social Media Research Toolkit
A list of 50+ social media research tools curated by researchers at the Social Media Lab. Only tools that have been used in peer-reviewed academic studies are included.
An App for Discovering and Analyzing X Posts with Community Notes
The Tweets Sampling Toolkit contains a set of tools for 1) creating a random sample from massive (100M+) Tweet ID datasets, such as those available in the Social Media Lab's COVID-19 Twitter Pandemic Archive and for 2) performing set operations with Tweet ID datasets such as intersection, difference, or union.

Data Visualization Dashboards

PoliDashboard v2 is an open-source app for tracking political advertisements on Facebook, Instagram, and other advertising platforms owned by Meta. PoliDashboard is unique in that it focuses on the activities of each advertiser and not just on a particular ad that they have posted.
The Deepfakes Tracker Research Portal is designed to serve as a comprehensive resource for policymakers, researchers, journalists, the public, and other stakeholders to track the prevalence of AI-generated deepfakes and also manipulated media and narratives, aka cheap or shallow fakes.
The Deepfakes Tracker Research Portal is designed to serve as a comprehensive resource for policymakers, researchers, journalists, the public, and other stakeholders to track the prevalence of AI-generated deepfakes and also manipulated media and narratives, aka cheap or shallow fakes.
ConflictMisinfo Research Portal - a resource for analysts, researchers, and members of the public who are interested in understanding the nature and scale of online misinformation and disinformation about the Russia-Ukraine war.
ConflictMisinfo Research Portal - a resource for analysts, researchers, and members of the public who are interested in understanding the nature and scale of online misinformation and disinformation about the Russia-Ukraine war.
Telegram War Room: A map of Telegram channels/groups sharing news and updates about the Russia-Ukraine war.
Telegram War Room: A map of Telegram channels/groups sharing news and updates about the Russia-Ukraine war.
The COVID19MisInfo.org Portal is a rapid response project of the Social Media Lab at Ted Rogers School of Management. The aim of this project is two-fold: (1) put a spotlight on COVID-19 related misinformation and (2) to provide Canadians with timely and actionable information.
The Covid-19 Twitter Pandemic Archive is a catalog of datasets containing billions of tweet IDs for COVID-19 related tweets and a set of data visualization dashboards that display high-level monthly stats about the COVID-19 conversations on Twitter.
ModSimulator – Open-Source Research Tool to Test the Effectiveness of Soft Content Moderation Measures on Social Media
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