@communalytic.org's Civility Analyzer is designed to identify both anti-social and pro-social interactions in online discourse. Users can choose from two different detection systems: Detoxify and Perspective. #academicsky #sciencesky #phdsky

Are you studying online toxicity or online moderation? Our @Communalytic.org research tool includes a Civility Analyzer module that automatically pinpoints various types of toxic interactions in any social media dataset. communalytic.org/docs/civilit... #academicsky #phdsky #comsky #sciencesky

Welcome to our new Deepfakes Tracker, your hub for tracking and understanding synthetic media. Take a quick video tour. deepfakestracker.org

Other improvements include: - Enhanced sentiment analysis and topic modeling using modern multilingual AI models - Faster network visualization powered by GPU-accelerated algorithms - A new Team / Instructor tier designed for collaborative research and teaching communalytic.org

Last week, we launched a new version of Communalytic, a platform designed to help you explore how digital conversations shape public opinion & behaviour across social media. Key highlights incl: expanded data collection capabilities, including two new TikTok data collectors.

Researchers, are you or your PhD student conducting research on online discourse, or exploring how digital conversations shape public opinion and behaviour? Our new @communalytic.org tool may help with your next research project. communalytic.org/2026/03/15/c... #academicsky #phdsky #comsky #polisky

Communalytic is a portmanteau of community and analytic. Communalytic is actually a modern version of our first social media research tool, Netlytic.org. That research tool ran for 18 years and was used in thousands of research publications.

Researchers, are you or your PhD student conducting research on online discourse, or exploring how digital conversations shape public opinion and behaviour? Our new @communalytic.org tool may help with your next research project. communalytic.org/2026/03/15/c...

Communalytic, a no-code computational social science research platform for studying online communities and public discourse on social media, includes 20 easy-to-use social media data collectors and a full suite of built-in data analyzers. communalytic.org/about-us/ #medsky #comsky #polsky #phdsky

Researchers, are you studying public discourse on social media? If you are, check out our all-new @Communalytic.org research platform, which features a suite of easy-to-use social media data collectors & analyzers. #AcademicSky #ComSky #DiscourseAnalysis #LibrarySky #PhDSky #PolCom #ResearchSky

Communalytic, a no-code computational social science research platform for studying online communities and public discourse on social media, includes 20 easy-to-use social media data collectors and a full suite of built-in data analytics modules. communalytic.org/about-us/

The new version of Communalytic.org introduces powerful new analysis tools, new data collectors for TikTok and Bluesky, a redesigned interface, and enhanced collaboration capabilities aimed at researchers, journalists, educators, and civil society organizations studying digital discourse. #phdsky

Hello Researchers, Welcome to the new Communalytic! We've launched a major upgrade to Communalytic with new features, new data sources, improved visualizations, a unified login experience, and so much more. communalytic.org/2026/03/15/c... #academicsky #sciencesky #medsky #comsky #polsky #phdsky

Join us for the Social Media Lab’s 2025 Computational Social Science (CSS) Summer School. Explore cutting-edge digital methods in this hands-on workshop series. No coding required — we’ll be using @Communalytic.org, a platform for analyzing social media discourse. socialmedialab.ca/2025/06/28/2...

Researchers, are you looking for a way to spot duplicates posts shared by spammers, bots and other bad actors? Our new @communalytic.org's Topic Analyzer module can help. socialmedialab.ca/2024/11/19/i...

If you're doing research on online civility or lack thereof, get to know the Civility Analyzer module in @communalytic.org. It can automatically identify toxic, insulting, & threatening posts or posts showing compassion, curiosity, & respect in any text-based dataset. Communalytic.org

We are pleased to announce the launch of the new Civility Analyzer module in @Communalytic.org. The module offers researchers an accessible, data-driven approach to studying both prosocial and harmful behaviours across various social media platforms. socialmedialab.ca/2025/06/17/c...

Meta is now removing content related to abortion. Last week, it was LGBTQ+ content. When we say porn is the canary in the coal mine of free speech, it's not because we're narcissists. It's gd warning about what's coming ... for you. All speech that is politically disfavored is at risk.

Finland is often regarded as a prime example of how to effectively counter disinformation. The country’s proactive approach, which includes education, media literacy, and coordinated government strategies, has set a benchmark for tackling this global challenge.

Given the waves of alarming changes emerging from Meta, it's clear that the myth of tech being inherently liberal needs to be retired. Tech owners, like sunflowers, always turn toward power.

Follow through here is key. This situation mirrors the phenomenon where individuals declare their intention to move to Canada following a U.S. election outcome they find unfavorable.

If you are so inclined, here's "How to delete your Facebook account and take your data with you. Meta has buried account deletion and deactivation within your Facebook settings, but we found them." www.popsci.com/diy/how-to-d...

Hello @safety.bsky.app, here's a new pro-Russian disinfo bot network on Bluesky, which we're dubbing "Curiosity". It comprises over 300 accounts with identical bio text: "Driven by curiosity and a passion for exploring new ideas and technologies." public.flourish.studio/visualisatio...

Introducing the New Topic Analyzer in @communalytic.org, our computational social science research tool for studying online communities and public discourse on social media. It uses sentence-transformer models to turn social media posts into vector embeddings. socialmedialab.ca/2024/11/19/i...

Dec. 6 is fast approaching. That's the date when the U.S. Crt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit is set to issue its ruling re: the #TikTokban. But that'll be just round 1. The losing party is expected to appeal to #SCOTUS for a final ruling on the #TikTokban before it takes effect on Jan. 19, 2025.

Hello, social media and internet researchers! We are now on Bluesky! Give us a follow if you are interested in learning more about how to collect & analyze social media data for public interest research. communalytic.org

We are now on Bsky!