MediaWell: Live research from the digital edges of democracy

by Kim Lyons

20 hours ago

On Friday morning, Jeff Sites, a challenger to Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, didn’t have a blue verification badge on his…

by Suhauna Hussain and Jeff Bercovici

20 hours ago

Michael R. Bloomberg’s presidential campaign has been experimenting with novel tactics to cultivate an online following, or at least the…

by Elyse Samuels

2 days ago

On July 13, 2018, five friends took a road trip to the south Indian village of Handikera, which is in…

by Oliver Milman

2 days ago

The social media conversation over the climate crisis is being reshaped by an army of automated Twitter bots, with a…

by Jonathan Landay

2 days ago

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration said on Tuesday said it will begin treating five major Chinese state-run media entities…

by Brian Feldman

2 days ago

Over the past four years, Facebook has made a big show of demonstrating how much it cares about democracy and…

by Tre Hargett and Jay Ashcroft

2 days ago

As we gear up for the 2020 elections, voters in both the Volunteer State and the Show-Me State will be…

by Alina Tugend

3 days ago

The students sit at desks in groups of four, watching videos about the recent bush fires in Australia. One shows…

by Chris Estep and Megan Lamberth

3 days ago

Last September, an image of a New York Times headline began circulating online, claiming that Abdullah Abdullah, a candidate for…

by Matthew Thomas

3 days ago

Russia, to a smaller or larger extent, has deliberately challenged the Baltic states on both domestic and international levels since…