DEDIS is an abbreviation for Deliberative Discussions in the Social Web. Our research group aims at increasing the quality of online discussions in the comment sections of news outlets and on their social media pages. Our lab is a unit of the Department of Social Sciences at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. DEDIS is funded by the Digital Society research program funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia.