Suncem Koçer, Burak Atasever, Fatma Sever, Mehmet Aykut Er, Berru Perdahcı, Bahadır Öz, Gülten Okçuoğlu, Aslı Asena Turan

İnfodemi Lab

InfodemiLab was initiated with the project titled "Understanding the Spread of Misinformation in Turkey in the Context of Covid-19 from the Perspective of Media Users and Developing Preventive Action Suggestions" supported by TÜBİTAK between 2020 and 2021. Since 2022, it has been continuing its activities to prevent the spread of misinformation by focusing on "political news" and the media.

Salih Bıçakçı, Ayhan Gücüyener Evren

She4Cyber

She4Cyber Project is a platform that aims to increase the visibility and capacity of women in the cyber security sector, to raise awareness of women against gender discrimination in the field of cyber security and to fight against discrimination. For this purpose, the project seeks to organize face-to-face meetings with mentors, coordinate specialization training and provide internship opportunities.

Sabancı Üniversitesi & Boğaziçi Üniversitesi

Dijital Teknolojileri Kullanarak Nefret Söylemi ve Ayrımcılıkla Mücadele

The project aims to combat hate speech, discrimination and disinformation in the digital environment. It is planned to organize workshops, podcasts, develop open source software, organize competitions and develop content to raise awareness on the issue. The project is realized with the financial support of the Hrant Dink Foundation, the European Union and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation.

NewsLab Türkiye: Sarphan Uzunoğlu, Duygu Uzunoğlu, Ahmet Sabancı, Defne Kapan, Ruşen Efe, Ezgi Yeşilbaş, Metehan Akman, Sakine Orman

NewsLab Türkiye

NewsLabTurkey is a platform that plans to provide training for journalists in Turkey in institutional and individual frameworks and informs them about developments in the field. The project includes many activities from professional journalism to the development of digital literacy.

Gözlemevi

Gözlemevi

Gözlemevi envisions a human-centric internet ecosystem where technology companies are held accountable for their actions. It aims to develop legal and social mechanisms that allow empowered societies to hold technology companies accountable. Gözlemevi uncovers human rights violations, dangers to users, manipulations, and imbalances of power that arise from the irresponsibility of technology companies.

Onur Varol

VRLab

VRLab is a research lab that develops techniques to analyze online behaviors to improve individual well-being and address societal problems. It leverages online and offline data to gain insight into human behaviors and analyze technological systems to mitigate threats against online conversations by developing techniques in machine learning, network science, and computational social sciences.

Özyeğin Üniversitesi

Detecting and Countering Information Suppression from A Transnational Perspective (DE-CONSPIRATOR)

The DE-CONSPIRATOR project aims to measure the impact of foreign-inspired information manipulation and interference (FIMI) strategies on political, social and societal events in EU member states and 3 partner countries, including Turkey, and to develop strategies to combat it. The project has a purpose to increase resilience and awareness about international disinformation