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Jigsaw is a unit within Google that forecasts and confronts emerging threats to open societies, creating future-defining research and technology to inspire scalable solutions.

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  • Introducing Altitude: An open-source tool to help online platforms protect their communities from…

    Introducing Altitude: An open-source tool to help online platforms protect their communities from…

    Terrorist and violent extremist groups have been forced to dramatically reshape their strategies for recruitment, incitement and…
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    Jul 22
    Active Listening in the AI Age: Using LLMs to Help People Be Heard

    Active Listening in the AI Age: Using LLMs to Help People Be Heard

    Since 2017, Jigsaw’s Perspective API has used machine learning to enable more voices to participate in online conversation, by identifying…
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    Jun 25
    Announcing Experimental Bridging Attributes in Perspective API

    Announcing Experimental Bridging Attributes in Perspective API

    Our new set of experimental classifiers aims to detect attributes correlated with more constructive conversation.
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    Apr 15
    A megastudy across 63 countries finds 11 promising interventions in the fight against climate…

    A megastudy across 63 countries finds 11 promising interventions in the fight against climate…

    Head-to-head testing in global megastudy finds behavioral info interventions effective in the fight against climate change
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    Mar 5
    So You’ve Been Targeted by a Government-Backed Attack Online, Now What?

    So You’ve Been Targeted by a Government-Backed Attack Online, Now What?

    State-backed hacking poses a growing threat to civil society. Here’s how the landscape is evolving — and how you can respond.
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    Dec 19, 2023
    Prebunking to Build Defenses Against Online Manipulation Tactics in Germany

    Prebunking to Build Defenses Against Online Manipulation Tactics in Germany

    As false and manipulative information continues to spread online, our team at Jigsaw has been working to scale the impact of the work we’ve…
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    Oct 25, 2023
    Confronting Digital Authoritarianism

    Confronting Digital Authoritarianism

    For the last decade, authoritarians have had the upper hand online. To regain the advantage for democracy, we need to change the game.
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    Sep 28, 2023
    6 Insights Into How Hate & Violent Extremism are Evolving Online

    6 Insights Into How Hate & Violent Extremism are Evolving Online

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    Jul 14, 2023
    Reducing Toxicity in Large Language Models with Perspective API

    Reducing Toxicity in Large Language Models with Perspective API

    ML models originally developed to facilitate human-to-human interactions are finding new uses in responsible development of generative AI.
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    Apr 21, 2023
    Defanging Disinformation’s Threat to Ukrainian Refugees

    Defanging Disinformation’s Threat to Ukrainian Refugees

    Analyzing the results from the largest prebunking experiment on social media to date
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    Feb 12, 2023
    Scaling machine learning fairness with societal context

    Scaling machine learning fairness with societal context

    We’ve partnered with Google’s Societal Context Understanding Tools and Solutions team to improve the fairness of our Perspective API models
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    Dec 13, 2022
    Through the magnifying glass: how technology could help users identify fake images online

    Through the magnifying glass: how technology could help users identify fake images online

    Our research shows that tools like automated reverse image search could help distinguish real from fake content
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    Jul 26, 2022
    Bridging the gap between theoretical and practical applications of machine learning with Kaggle

    Bridging the gap between theoretical and practical applications of machine learning with Kaggle

    It’s been five years since we launched Perspective API, Jigsaw’s free service that helps moderators manage user generated content online…
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    Jun 23, 2022
    A suite of tools to help protect the free and open web

    A suite of tools to help protect the free and open web

    Google and JIgsaw’s Protect Your Democracy website is a suite of tools to assist countries on the front lines of the fight for democracy.
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    May 24, 2022
    Internet shutdowns are once more on the rise

    Internet shutdowns are once more on the rise

    After a steep fall in 2020, the number of internet shutdowns grew in 2021 as several countries cut off access for the first time and…
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    May 12, 2022
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