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24 alternatives to Securing Democracy

A "disinformation dashboard" tracking Russian propaganda

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Securing Democracy launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   Countable▲73

   Direct Democracy with Countable

   2014 · myactionable.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   LeftRight.news▲76

   Real-time mood dashboard for the political internet

   2016 · its alternatives →

3. 3
   SecureDrop▲70

   Open-source whistleblower submission system

   2014 · securedrop.org · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Open Faucet▲135

   Securely share documents with verified journalists

   2017 · openfaucet.org · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Obfuscation▲53

   A user's guide for privacy and protest

   2015 · mitpress.mit.edu · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Helios▲68

   Verifiable online elections

   2015 · vote.heliosvoting.org · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Electionland▲12

   Crowdsourcing coverage of voter problems using social media

   2016 · propublica.org · its alternatives →

8. 8
   I built a dashboard of official data ahead of French elections▲53

   Construisons ensemble un tableau de bord de données neutres et vérifiables

   2022 · lafrance.enchiffres.fr · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Participoll▲78

   Free audience polling for Powerpoint.

   2015 · participoll.com · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Hipvote▲18

    Making democracy fun and engaging

    2014 · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Wonker▲84

    User-generated explanations on complex current events.

    2014 · wonker.com · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Real Time Presidential Election Analysis▲3

    Unbiased social media tracking for Trump & Clinton

    2016 · its alternatives →

13. 13HP
    Hacker Polls, an aggregator for polls on Hacker News▲6

    2012 · hackerpolls.com · its alternatives →

14. 14OS
    Open Synthesis – open platform for CIA-style analysis of current events▲9

    2016 · open-synthesis-sandbox.herokuapp.com · its alternatives →

15. 15BP
    Broken Promises – Open Source Tracking of Donald Trump's Lies▲6

    2017 · brokenpromises.news · its alternatives →

16. 16SD
    Secure Digital Archive for the Paranoid▲6

    2014 · goryachev.com · its alternatives →

17. 17
    I removed politics from Twitter with AI▲40

    I'm sure you all saw the debate a few days ago, alongside all the tech influencoors giving their mid-takes about politics. Doesn't it get tiring? That's why I built mindfirewall a chrome extension that uses AI to filter out tweets. You'll never have to see politics, war, or negativity on your timeline again. In the future you'll be shocked you even allowed this stuff into your brain in the first place. Let me know what you think below, does it feel too much like censorship? would you use this?

    2024 · mindfw.com · its alternatives →

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    FOIA Mapper▲5

    Access to the world of "hidden" public data

    2016 · speedypaper.com · its alternatives →

19. 19
    PredictIt▲5

    The prediction market for politics

    2016 · predictit.org · its alternatives →

20. 20
    USA Election Monitor▲4

    crowdsourcing nonpartisan citizen-led election monitoring

    2016 · usaelectionmonitor.ushahidi.io · its alternatives →

21. 21
    Exploring Russian Election Interference with Graphiti▲9

    Hi HN, we're Jack and Daniel from Zep. We've built a visual exploration tool and AI assistant for analyzing Russian election interference in the run-up to next week's US elections. The Explorer uses Graphiti, Zep's open-source temporal Knowledge Graph library. Graphiti autonomously creates dynamic, temporally-aware knowledge graphs representing complex, evolving relationships between entities. To offer users a detailed view of Russian state operations and related topics, we populated the graph with over 50+ sources. These include US DOJ indictments, research by US and foreign governments,…

    2024 · blog.getzep.com · its alternatives →

22. 22
    "tl;dr" Chrome extension for Hacker News▲9

    2012 · chrome.google.com · its alternatives →

23. 23HN
    Hacker News Dashboard (hckrnews.com data + kibana3 + qbox.io + appfog)▲9

    2013 · hnk.aws.af.cm · its alternatives →

24. 24TH
    The "Hacker News Status" Twitter account▲6

    2014 · twitter.com · its alternatives →

Ranked by how close each launch is in meaning, then by votes. Prices were read from each product’s own site when checked and can change. Refine with your own description →