SMAT is now Open Measures! Read more about our rebrand here.
About
The web needs cooperative, transparent tools to uncover online disinformation and extremism.
Open Measures is built to help journalists, researchers, and social enterprises investigate harmful online activity such as extremism and disinformation. In turn, our open source and enterprise user communities make feature and data requests to help guide our tooling.
We are opposed to the threats presented by dangerous online users, malicious state actors, and conspiracies aimed at causing mass harm. We want to help our users respond to the next generation of threats by providing an open and accessible way to conduct threat intelligence.
“…their purpose-built platform and set of APIs provide for a comprehensive solution to effectively identifying and addressing disinformation on social networks. Open Measures enables our team to quickly detect false or misleading narratives & extremist content. I’ve tried a number of tools in my career; without Open Measures, harmful online activity would be significantly harder to locate.”
– Tim Chambers, Principal at Dewey Square Group
“The Open Measures platform has been by far the easiest to use and most customisable system I’ve ever used for Telegram. It’s extremely fast, easy to add channels with back-crawling, and allows you to filter by any data obtainable from the API. Just as importantly, it’s completely transparent in how it works with no black-box processing or pseudo-AI.”
– Pierre Vaux, Investigator at Centre for Information Resilience
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Contact
Have a question that isn't covered in the FAQ? Drop us a line by clicking the link!
For the security and sustainability of our platform, we do not open-source each product but we do open-source as much as possible. All open-source code is available via our GitLab project.
How do you choose what to open-source?
We lean on our community of researchers and developers to provide insight into which of our tools are most useful and then determine collectively which can most sustainably be offered at no cost to the user. Please reach out if you want to be a part of the conversation.
Data Access
Do you make any endpoints available publicly?
Yes! We have several public endpoints available for querying our data store, including the /content endpoint which returns raw data. It is worth noting that our public endpoints are rate limited at 39 requests per day. You can read more about our public endpoints in the API section of our documentation.
I need higher frequency than the public endpoints or analysis tooling allows. What are my options?
We support a few options for organizations in need of high volume and recent data. If you are interested in learning more about how your team can get more robust tooling, fill out the following form.
Partnerships
How long does it take to implement Open Measures?
Most partners take anywhere from a few days to a month to fully implement depending on the complexity of their needs and in-house setup. Our team is there every step of the way. We begin each partnership with onboarding sessions and offer ongoing support to ensure you have the resources you need for success.
Who do you partner with?
We partner with a range of organizations and individuals that are trying to better understand, and respond to, emerging online threats of disinformation and extremism. Those organizations include leading civil society orgs, legal services, press desks, and private research teams.
What if I don't work for an organization that would be a good partner fit but I still want to contribute to Open Measures?
We’re proud partners with Open Source Collective, our fiscal host. Contributions from the community make our dedicated work in the open-source ecosystem possible as those contributions are earmarked specifically for the public App/API. You can make a one-time or recurring contribution here.
Separately, we are always looking for contributions to our publicly available GitLab repository. Everyone can contribute to make Open Measures better.
