The Beacon Project‘s Dash website hosts dynamic data dashboards. The custom Power BI dashboards are built by the Beacon Project team and are used to support published research by the expert community examining disinformation and other hostile narratives by enabling researchers to engage with large amounts of data in an intuitive way and improve their ability to analyze the media environment. This is provided to increase accessibility to interesting and often unique data that can be used by other independent researchers or other interested individuals.

In the past the custom dashboards have been supplemented by curated live displays presenting content from public Facebook Pages focusing on political and media actors in different countries of interest. Unfortunately, due to the closure of Meta’s CrowdTangle on August 14, 2024 many of the dashboard’s no longer have access to live data that was provided by this service. As Meta onboards researcher to their Meta Content Library we are hopeful there will be continued opportunities to display dynamic data from Facebook in the future. 

Contact the Beacon Project team should you have questions or find that the presented data is useful in your own work. We would be happy to discuss how to support your efforts.