Beyond
We support projects and collaborate with initiatives that enable society to better understand the challenges of today’s information environment.
Empowering the community
We joined the Stanford Internet Observatory‘s Trust & Safety Teaching Consortium – a loosely-organized coalition of academic, industry and non-profit experts. Over 8 months, the consortium created the very first open-source syllabus on trust & safety.
The teaching materials launched on May 24, 2023 and are available on GitHub for everyone who prepares the next generation of trust & safety professionals, engineers and PMs.
Empowering journalism
We develop partnerships and collaborate with journalists and news organizations who fight mis- and disinformation.
Prior to the 2017 federal elections in Germany, we supported a fact checking team #Wahlcheck17, together with Google News Lab, First Draft, Facebook and dpa.
Empowering society
We support civil-society projects that discuss challenges of technology in today’s information society.
In 2017, we supported art student in Hamburg Annette Schmid. She created an art installation where social bot tweets were read aloud by moving robots. Visitors interacted with the robots and reflected the moment when digital reality on Twitter became part of their physical reality. Learn more about the installation hypermatics.