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 no-code computational social science research tool for studying online communities and public discourse on social media.
An App For Tracking Targeted Political Ads, elections and social issues ads on Facebook and Instagram
The NoteTracker Dashboard is an app for discovering and analyzing posts on X that have Community Notes.
The Deepfakes Tracker Research Portal is a comprehensive resource for researchers, journalists, the public, and other stakeholders to track the prevalence of deepfakes and manipulated media and narratives.

Open-source Projects

An App For Tracking Targeted Political Ads, elections and social issues ads on Facebook and Instagram
 
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.
 
ModSimulator – Open-Source Research Tool to Test the Effectiveness of Soft Content Moderation Measures on Social Media
 
AI-powered bot for simple fact checking [Proof of concept]
 
GraphOptima: A graph layout optimization framework for visualizing large networks
 
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

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.
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.
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.
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Visit our new 'Deepfakes Tracker' portal to learn more about deepfakes and manipulated mediaDeepFakesTracker.org