Surging disinformation and the rise of generative AI is creating a perfect storm that threatens the integrity of democratic processes worldwide. These forces are leading to the spread of false narratives, undermining public trust, and distorting informed decision-making.
Meedan addresses the dual crisis of misinformation and harmful content on today’s Internet. The organization’s software and training programs help media-makers and citizens tell the truth from fiction, allowing for collaborative verification of information.
Focused primarily on elections, crisis response, and creating safe and inclusive media ecosystems, Meedan runs programs that build capacity and digital literacy for news organizations and their audiences.
Meedan’s tools and programs connect citizens around the world to high-quality, trusted information in more than 17 languages. Over the past decade, Meedan’s programs and technologies have served 170 newsrooms, fact-checking organizations, and other community information hubs in 46 countries.
Misinformation is one of the fastest growing challenges facing the world.
Meedan's tools and training programs help newsrooms and citizens verify information.
Ed Bice started Meedan in 2006 with the aim of creating an equitable internet.
Meedan's tools have debunked misinformation on everything from pandemic response to election monitoring.
Meedan believes in a world where all people, regardless of language, location, or income, have the tools and resources needed to make informed decisions.
Meedan is growing its technical and programmatic capacity, with plans to implement election monitoring initiatives in at least 18 countries by 2027. In 2024 alone, Meedan plans to establish election coalitions in countries with a total of 1.4 billion registered voters.
CEO, Meedan
Ed is the CEO and Board Chair of the global technology non-profit Meedan. Since founding Meedan in 2006, he has devoted his professional energies to improving the Internet. Ed has led strategy and project definition for open-source software development efforts in social computing. Meedan has developed human-in-the-loop AI chatbots enabling journalists, scientists, and community leaders to provide knowledge services within closed messaging environments. Ed is a member of the Partnership on AI’s AI and Media Integrity Steering Committee and the Logically Facts Advisory Board. Recent projects include the #FactsFirstPH initiative with Rappler, Confirma 2022 Brazil Election monitoring project with Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court (TSE), Twitter’s media context program, the COVID-19 Vaccine Media Hub (Google), and WhatsApp’s 3PFC (third party fact-checking) program. Meedan’s work has received numerous awards including two Knight News Challenge Awards, two Online News Association Awards, and two Collaborative Impact awards from the International Fact-Checking Network. Meedan’s work has been recognized with a National Science Foundation Convergence grant for work developing a platform that allows journalists to respond to mis/disinformation on closed messaging platforms.
