Arbiter

See the accounts shaping your feed before they shape your views.

An AI copilot for public discourse · by SimPPL, a U.S. 501(c)(3) nonprofit

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The information supply chain is broken

A lie crosses platforms faster than the truth, and no one sees the whole path.

Planted
A claim is seeded
One account, one post.
Amplified
Spread across feeds
X, YouTube, TikTok, Telegram at once.
Each platform sees a slice
Moderation stops at its own edge.
Harm lands
It reaches millions
Before anyone connects the dots.

On social platforms, true stories take about six times as long as false ones to reach people.

SRC · MIT study, 2018 · news.mit.eduARBITER · SIMPPL

Public deception, deliberate and documented

Each one is a real article or public record, sourced on every card.

U.S. Department of Justice press release: Justice Department Disrupts Covert Russian Government-Sponsored Foreign Malign Influence Operation
Russia · 2024
A Kremlin operation cloned the Washington Post and Der Spiegel to push propaganda. The Justice Department seized 32 domains.
Src · U.S. Department of Justice
Al Jazeera: Romania's top court annuls results of presidential election's first round
Romania · 2024
A court annulled the presidential election's first round after a coordinated TikTok operation lifted a fringe candidate.
Src · Al Jazeera
The Record: Chinese law enforcement linked to largest covert influence operation ever discovered
China · 2023
Meta pulled thousands of fake accounts across 50+ platforms, the largest covert influence operation it had ever found.
Src · The Record, Recorded Future News
International Press Institute: Slovakia, deepfake audio of Denník N journalist offers worrying example of AI abuse
Slovakia · 2023
A faked audio clip of a candidate spread two days before the vote, when a campaign silence kept him from rebutting it.
Src · International Press Institute
PBS NewsHour: Political consultant behind AI-generated Biden robocalls faces 6 million dollar fine and criminal charges
United States · 2024
An AI clone of President Biden's voice told New Hampshire voters to stay home. The FCC fined the operator $6 million.
Src · PBS NewsHour, AP
Full Fact: Here's where those 5G and coronavirus conspiracy theories came from
United Kingdom · 2020
The false claim that 5G spreads COVID sent people to set fire to phone masts. There is no link between the two.
Src · Full Fact
Six documented cases, 2020–2024 · full source on each cardARBITER · SIMPPL

One tool, reading across every feed

Search the posts on every platform, aggregate the ones that move together, then investigate the accounts behind them.

02 · AGGREGATE STACK
Coordinated praise
44 posts · 3 platforms
Recycled talking points
31 posts · 2 platforms
03 · INVESTIGATE STACK
amplifier
one hub drives the rest
SRC · Search · Aggregate · Investigate stack · arbiter.simppl.orgARBITER · SIMPPL

Platforms act on what we surface, worldwide

X investigated. Meta took a network down. YouTube terminated channels.

150+
organizations signed up
12
countries with partners
3.7M+
posts analyzed
248B
interactions monitored
USIndiaPhilippinesIndonesiaKenyaMongoliaGermanyHong KongLATAMUN agencies

Newsrooms, fact-checkers, election officials, and UN trust-and-safety teams use Arbiter. Stanford picked it for this year's platform workshop with trust-and-safety leaders.

SRC · Meta Q1 2024 Adversarial Threat Report · arbiter.simppl.org partnersARBITER · SIMPPL

Built by researchers who ship, backed by the field

Swapneel Mehta · Founder

Former postdoc in AI safety at MIT and Boston University. Board member at the Integrity Institute. Built AI systems at Twitter, Adobe, and Slack.

Six full-time engineers

Systems and infrastructure, NLP and agents, platform backend. A U.S. 501(c)(3) nonprofit.

Backed by

Google, Mozilla, Wikimedia, Ford, Omidyar, MIT, Columbia, and UNDP.

Peer-reviewed

Published at NeurIPS, EMNLP, ICML, AAAI, and ICWSM.

SRC · simppl.org/team · simppl.org/researchARBITER · SIMPPL

OUR VISION

Everyone who defends the truth can see the whole picture.

See it on your issue: write to team@simppl.org.

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