Our Research
As a data-driven organisation, research lies at the core of everything we do. We assess disinformation risk across the open web, study media markets around the world, catalogue brand safety incidents, measure advertising spend, identify policy interventions and more.
Seeking Expressions of Interest: Implementation Partners for the Global Disinformation Index’s Media Market Risk Assessments
A call for in-country partners to collaborate with GDI on our Media Market Risk Assessment projects.
How is Ad Tech Funding Misogynistic Disinformation?
Examples of misogynist disinformation narratives and ad tech companies funding this toxic content.
Disinformation Risk Assessment: The Online News Market in the United States
New GDI research assessed disinformation risk within the U.S. media market. The following report examines 69 U.S. news sites, selected on the basis of online traffic and social media followers, as well as geographical coverage and racial, ethnic and religious community representation.
Disinformation Risk Assessment: The Online News Market in Chile
In collaboration with Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, GDI has released a new study on disinformation risks within Chile’s media market.
Disinformation Risk Assessment: The Online News Market in Colombia
The following report presents findings pertaining to disinformation risks for the media market in Colombia, based on a study of 34 news domains.
Ad-funded Elections Integrity Disinformation
GDI's briefing on elections integrity adversarial narratives within ad-funded disinformation in the lead up to the 2022 midterm elections.