Research-driven technology for organizations working in the public interest.
We help human rights groups, researchers, and journalists across anti-authoritarian civil society uncover hard-to-find evidence and important stories in public social media data, including in closed environments where information is deliberately obscured.
The research behind our technology is led by social scientists, working alongside engineers and platform experts at every stage — from finding the right sources to making sense of the data.
Arendt Labs is a US-based nonprofit named after Hannah Arendt, the political theorist who wrote about how power, judgment, and public visibility shape political life.
PRODUCTS
Aithoscope reads public social media at a scale no human team can: thousands of sources a day, surfacing posts, cases, and trends relevant to each partner’s work — by meaning, not just keywords.
AI
The technology that makes the work possible
ethos
The values and questions of the community using it
scope
A specific, configured field of view tuned to each partner's work
It is a social-media research platform for journalists, researchers, and human rights defenders. Each partner defines what counts as relevant for their work; we use those definitions to tune the system, review early results together, and keep iterating until the alerts are reliably useful. Aithoscope brings potentially important material forward, while partners decide what to review, verify, investigate, and act on.
PARTNERS
PILOT — JOURNALISM
TV Rain
Work with the independent broadcaster helped surface sources for an investigation into the HIV epidemic among Russian frontline troops. The resulting report passed one million views.
TEAM
Nadia Polikarpova — Founder
She leads the technical and research architecture behind Aithoscope, building AI-assisted tools that help civil society organizations find meaningful signals in large collections of public data. Her work connects advanced computing, research methods, and civic technology, with a focus on making complex information usable for human rights, media, and public-interest work.