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Focus Tag: 2020 US Election
We need to know more about political ads. But can transparency be a trap? | Nieman Journalism Lab
by Madelyn Webb and Bethan John
March 31, 2021
As misinformation researchers, we spend a lot of time thinking about online advertising. We dig through ad libraries, monitor platforms’…
How the Political Communications Profession Helped Divide America | Annenberg School for Communication
March 29, 2021
Using examples of political advertising, including some of his own work in nearly 30 years of creating such content as…
Facebook, the election, the insurrection: A conversation with Avaaz’s Fadi Quran | Tech Policy Press
by Justin Hendrix
March 24, 2021
This week Avaaz- a global activist organization that focuses on issues such as democratic values, human rights, and poverty- released…
49 percent of Republican men won’t get vaccinated. These women are trying to change their minds. | The Lily
by Caroline Kitchener
March 24, 2021
Tanya Garcia plans to get her coronavirus vaccine as soon as she is eligible — regardless of what her husband…
US Intelligence Community Assessment of 2020 election interference. Cruder disinformation. COVID-19 misinformation. Deepfake blues. | CyberWire
by CyberWire Staff
March 19, 2021
The US Intelligence Community this week released an unclassified version of its report on foreign interference in the 2020 Federal…
Foreign Meddling Flooded the 2020 Election—but Not by Hackers | WIRED
by Andy Greenberg
March 18, 2021
After the pro-Trump hack-and-leak operations and disinformation campaigns that roiled the 2016 US election, the country braced for a second…
The Misinformation Campaign Was Distinctly One-Sided | The Atlantic
by Renée DiResta
March 16, 2021
On the morning of September 21, 2020, three trays of United States mail were discovered in a ditch in Greenville, Wisconsin. The local…
How a racialized disinformation campaign ties itself to The 1619 Project | Columbia Journalism Review
by Bradi Collins-Dexter and Joan Donovan
March 11, 2021
Footage of the January 6 Capitol insurrection revealed hundreds of references to 1776—in signs and in speeches, on t-shirts and…
TikTok Played a Key Role in MAGA Radicalization | WIRED
by Cameron Hickey
March 5, 2021
Two months into trying to understand why a mob of angry protesters violently stormed the US Capitol, a significant influence remains…