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Strategy: Digital Democracy
Algorithmic Justice League
Algorithmic Justice League, a fiscally sponsored project of New Venture Fund, conducts and publicizes research investigating algorithmic bias in high visibility commercial and public sector AI systems.
Ethnic Media Services
Ethnic Media Services, a fiscally sponsored project of San Francisco Study Center Inc., will expand the visibility and impact of its weekly online national news briefings. These help ethnic media reporters produce coverage of global, national and regional events relevant to their audiences.
Action Center on Race and the Economy Institute
ACRE Institute was founded in 2017, when policies were implemented that disproportionately benefited financial institutions, while harming Black and Brown communities. ACRE Institute’s leadership brings deep experience researching, organizing, and campaigning around Wall Street accountability issues following the 2008 financial crisis.
Poynter Institute for Media Studies, Inc.
The purpose of the Grant is to provide support for the fight against mis/disinformation through fact-checking innovation, research, collaboration, and training. For this project, Grantee will work to support fact-checking through the PolitiFact and PunditFact platforms. Grantee will also support research, training, and opportunities for collaboration for the broader fact-checking and journalism networks.
Trustees of Princeton University
To support research that contributes to a growing body of evidence that can inform stakeholders in media, industry, and government on how to most effectively design and regulate online spaces in a way that limits threats to democracy, with a particular focus on the impacts on people of color and women.
Media Democracy Fund
To provide support to Media Democracy Fund, a fiscally sponsored project of the New Venture Fund, to further the NetGain Partnership and to support engagement of organizations led by and serving communities of color in debates around platforms, power, and the public interest.
Times Publishing Company
The purpose of this grant is to expand the practice of fact-checking by helping PolitiFact expand their network throughout the states.
Social Science Research Council
The Social Data Initiative will examine social media’s impact on society and democracy, explore questions about the responsible use of social network data, and generate insights to inform solutions.
Poynter Institute for Media Studies, Inc.
A grant to the Poynter Institute will foster a public conversation within media about the role of pundits in our democracy, reduce the level of deception from pundits through highly visible fact checking of pundits, and demonstrate the value of using non-partisan fact checking of media pundits to reduce deception and misinformation.