Mitigating Online Violence

Leaning on our experience to understand and counteract the impacts of online violence on elections and human rights

IFES draws on long experience mitigating election-related violence to understand and counteract the impacts of online violence on elections and human rights. 

IFES’ Election Violence Education and Resolution (EVER) program monitors incidents of real-world and online violence during election periods. EVER’s digital reporting tools allow trained community monitors to log incident reports and trace damaging narratives for centralized review and analysis. The resulting data is used by IFES and partners to inform evidence-based responses and mitigation measures.  

The Online Hate Mitigation (Ohm) Stack pairs cutting-edge, locally trained AI with rigorous ethics and governance to allow for rapid deployment of AI to detect harmful, dangerous, and incendiary speech online during elections. IFES works with partners to interpret and apply data to mitigate risk during elections. 

IFES also implements interventions to mitigate the harms of gender-based disinformation and online harassment through our Violence Against Women in Elections (VAWE) work.