Technology for civic actors
FilterLabs.org empowers independent media and civil society with AI-powered technology to combat disinformation, track information control, and support democratic accountability.
Why a .org?
The commercial market for advanced monitoring and analysis tools serves governments and the private sector almost exclusively. Enterprise licensing puts those tools out of reach for the independent media outlets, civil society organizations, and policy researchers who face the same information environment without comparable budgets.
FilterLabs.org closes that gap. Through a shared services and license agreement with FilterLabs.AI, our commercial partner, we bring the Ubiquity data intelligence platform and our analysts to the non-commercial sector.
FilterLabs.AI
Builds Ubiquity and serves government, private-sector, and research clients.
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Brings access to Ubiquity and analyst support to independent media, civil society, and policy analysts.
Our purpose
State and state-aligned actors have far more resources, especially technologically, than the civic organizations tasked with tracking them. When civic actors cannot keep pace, state narratives go unchallenged and the public loses the independent reporting it needs.
24 hrs
After the U.S. DOJ seized 32 domains used by Russia's Doppelganger operation in September 2024, most replacement sites were back online within a day.
3.6M+ articles
The Moscow-based Pravda network published almost four million articles in 2024 alone to seed pro-Kremlin narratives into AI chatbots.
3 states
Russia, China, and Iran use generative AI to mass-produce content and the fake personas that spread it.
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Ubiquity’s monitoring of Russian regional Telegram and VK channels documented shutdowns that disrupted banking, transit payments, and drone-attack warnings in Kursk Oblast and Saint Petersburg.
02
Enterprise-level licensing structures exclude the media outlets, civil society groups, and researchers who need these tools most.
03
The elimination of USAID in 2025 and cuts to pro-democracy programs have left independent media and civil society in fragile contexts with far fewer resources.
How we partner
Track One
For think tanks and policy and advocacy organizations producing original analysis. You bring subject-matter expertise and funding or in-kind support; we bring platform access and analytical capacity. Joint fundraising can scale the work.
Track Two
For front-line organizations using Ubiquity directly in reporting, research, or advocacy. Each partnership pairs platform access with analyst support on a defined project and timeline.
The public deliverable
A report, dataset, joint publication, or co-branded briefing.
Your definition of success
Set by the partner in a short work plan, not by us.
A pathway to scale
A plausible funder for a second phase, identified at the outset.
Contact us
We are building a small number of partnerships with institutions, independent media, and civil society organizations, and we welcome conversations with funders who share our mission.
Or write to us directly at contact@filterlabs.org