About Us

Working in partnership with affected populations, CIR employs cutting-edge research techniques and technology to capture, assess and verify open source data.

We provide witness to human rights abuses committed by authoritarian states and malign actors, including war crimes.

Our teams turn that data into live reporting and trend analysis, in-depth investigations, and legally compliant data packages.

We share our work with donors, justice and accountability bodies, multilateral organisations, civil society and the media.

We use open source for good.

CIR detects online activity that seeks to harass, intimidate, defame or otherwise harm individuals or groups based on their gender, ethnicity, religion, sexuality or other inherent characteristics.

Our analyses produce evidence of inauthentic coordination, hate speech, disinformation or other harmful behaviour.

Our work enables countermeasures by the victims, civil society, social media platforms and governments.

We also investigate how gender and minority rights issues are used by disinformation and other hostile actors to serve broader political goals.

CIR conducts open source research and analysis that identifies malign influence operations on social media and traditional platforms. We profile techniques and narratives used. We collect evidence enabling attribution to state or non-state actors.

CIR assists democratic governments and civil society to design and implement countermeasures. We collaborate with international and local media to expose disinformation and strengthen public resilience.