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# Virality Project
- URL: https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/virality-project/
- Published: 1999-01-03T02:44:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-01-04T05:43:21.000Z
- Author: Liam Sturgess
- Tags: Profiles, #docs, #organization

The **Virality Project (VP)** is an American research coalition based in Stanford, California.

## History

The Vitality Project was formed following the work done by the same group of researchers behind the [Election Integrity Partnership](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Election-Integrity-Partnership) (EIP).[\[1\]](#fn1)

## Participants

Participants in the Virality Project include:[\[2\]](#fn2)

- Algorithmic Transparency Institute (ATI)
- [Center for an Informed Public](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Center-for-an-Informed-Public)
- Center for Social Media and Politics (CSMaP)
- Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab)
- Graphika
- New York University Tandon School of Engineering
- Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO)

## Publications

- April 26, 2022: "[Memes, Magnets and Microchips: Narrative dynamics around COVID-19 vaccines](https://web.archive.org/web/20230612230631/https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:mx395xj8490/Virality%5Fproject%5Ffinal%5Freport.pdf)"

## External links

- [Campfire Wiki](https://www.campfire.wiki/doku.php?id=virality%5Fproject)
- [Website](https://www.viralityproject.org/)

### Further reading

- November 10, 2023: "[Stanford Group Helped US Government Censor Covid Dissidents and Then Lied About It, New Documents Show](https://public.substack.com/p/stanford-group-helped-us-government)" by Alex Gutentag and [Andrew Lowenthal](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Andrew-Lowenthal)
- November 11, 2023: "[The Virality Project was a government front to coordinate censorship](https://networkaffects.substack.com/p/the-virality-project-was-a-government)" by Andrew Lowenthal
- March 15, 2024: "[Stanford’s Virality Project pushed to censor the vaccine-injured](https://networkaffects.substack.com/p/stanfords-virality-project-pushed)" by Andrew Lowenthal

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1. *Announcing the Virality Project.* (2021, February 11). The Virality Project. <https://web.archive.org/web/20210212210352/https://www.viralityproject.org/news/about> [↩︎](#fnref1)
2. The Virality Project. (2022, April 26). *Memes, Magnets and Microchips: Narrative dynamics around COVID-19 vaccines.* Stanford Digital Repository. <https://web.archive.org/web/20230612230631/https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:mx395xj8490/Virality%5Fproject%5Ffinal%5Freport.pdf> [↩︎](#fnref2)