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FFDW and MuckRock collaborate to bring DocumentCloud to the decentralized web
Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) has announced a major award to MuckRock, furthering our vision of being the public’s engine for understanding our world. FFDW and MuckRock are teaming up to integrate decentralized storage technology for DocumentCloud, our open source platform that currently hosts over 8 million verified documents. This collaboration will also expand our leading accountability and transparency tools to support a much wider range of use cases.

Explore redaction X-rays, decentralized storage, archive n-grams and more new Add-Ons
We’ve launched a range of new features integrated into DocumentCloud, plus an opportunity to join us to help build even more key transparency tools going forward.

A MuckRocker’s guide to requesting public records with the public
FOIA can be a tricky process, but you don’t need to go at it alone. Here are some of our favorite tips, tricks and examples of opening up the public records process, whether it’s hosting an event to train others or building a larger records campaign that works to get more people involved. The benefits: More transparency, more documents and stronger laws that work better for all requesters.

Recognizing the year’s worst in government transparency
Each year during Sunshine Week (March 13-19), The Foilies serve up tongue-in-cheek “awards” for government agencies and assorted institutions that stand in the way of access to information. The Electronic Frontier Foundation and MuckRock combine forces to collect horror stories about Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and state-level public records requests from journalists and transparency advocates across the United States and beyond. Here are this year’s “winners.”

DocumentCloud Add-Ons: Automate data extraction, alerts, ingestion, and much more with our simple, open source plugin system
Today, we’re launching Add-Ons, which makes it easier to launch, maintain, and share new capabilities right within DocumentCloud, ranging from exporting notes to applying machine learning techniques.