# Reset Tech Reset Tech (styled Reset.Tech) describes itself as an initiative to counter digital threats to democracy. It does policy work, documents abuse on tech platforms and funds civil-society groups. It was incubated in 2020 by Luminate, part of The Omidyar Group, together with the Sandler Foundation. It became fully independent on January 1, 2024. Ben Scott is CEO. Its named funders include Luminate, the Sandler Foundation, Omidyar Network, and the Skoll and Packard foundations. It works across the UK, Europe, Canada and the U.S. A U.S. entity is registered in Washington, D.C., and no single headquarters is stated. ## Russia work - **[[Operation Overload]] (June 4, 2024).** It co-authored, with [[CheckFirst]], the report that named the operation. Its OSINT lead, Aleksandra Atanasova, is a credited author. Follow-up work reported by WIRED in July 2025 found the operation's output had roughly tripled and shifted to AI-generated images and voice clones. - **"Influence by Design" (January 17, 2025).** With CheckFirst and AI Forensics, it found that [[Meta]] had run more than 8,000 ads tied to the [[Social Design Agency]] and [[Doppelganger]] after the sanctions, earning about $338,000. The ads targeted France, Germany, Poland and Italy. Sources differ on whether the period ran from August 2023 to October or to November 2024. No political attacks on Reset Tech by the U.S. right have been found. ## See Also - [[Operation Overload]] - [[CheckFirst]] - [[Social Design Agency]] - [[Doppelganger]] - [[Meta]]