Shining a light on information threats
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Beam: defending information is a multi-lingual, multi-platform capability to expose track and confront information threats online, from disinformation to hate, extremism, information operations, harassment and harmful conspiracy theories. It is co-developed by CASM Technology and the Institute for Strategic Dialogue.
In 2021 Beam was the joint-winner of the US-Paris Tech Challenge for innovative approaches to counter disinformation, sponsored by the US State Department, the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, and NATO.
Beam began as a partnership between ISD and CASM in 2015 which, from the beginning, had two key emphases: the capability to detect information threats at scale, and empowering more effective ways of responding to them. Since then, the award-winning technology has paved the way for researchers to custom design their own data collection and analysis ‘architectures’ by bringing data from various social media platforms under a single format. Users can then categorise data, analyse behaviour and identify trends among communities. Information can be synthesised into outputs including dashboards, data visualisations, regular reporting and alerts. This technology has been the basis for investigations of election disinformation in the US, Australia and France; information operations and disinformation about the Ukraine and Syria conflicts; climate disinformation in and around COP26 and COP27; and more.
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