News Item Robocalls spook voters with warning to ‘stay home’ | The Washington Post By Tony Romm and Isaac Stanley-Becker on November 3, 2020
News Item Characterizing social media manipulation in the 2020 U.S. presidential election | First Monday By Emilio Ferrara, Herbert Chang, Emily Chen, Goran Muric & Jaimin Patel on November 2, 2020 Algorithms and Automation
News Item Two new studies show, again, that Facebook doesn’t censor conservatives | Nieman Journalism Lab By Laura Hazard Owen on October 30, 2020 Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance
News Item ‘Putin could only dream of it’: how Trump became the biggest source of disinformation in 2020 | The Guardian By Julia Carrie Wong on November 2, 2020
News Item Battleground States See the Most Voting Misinformation | The New York Times By Davey Alba on November 2, 2020
News Item How tech firms have tried to stop disinformation and voter intimidation – and come up short By Scott Shackelford on November 2, 2020 Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance
News Item Why Hatred and ‘Othering’ of Political Foes Has Spiked to Extreme Levels | Scientific American By Christie Aschwanden on October 29, 2020
News Item How claims of voter fraud were supercharged by bad science | MIT Technology Review By Spenser Mestel on November 1, 2020
News Item Peer-to-Peer Texting and the 2020 U.S. Election: Hidden Messages and Intimate Politics | Center for Media Engagement By Katlyn Glover, Jacob Gursky, Katie Joseff & Samuel C. Woolley on October 28, 2020 Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance
Event CSMaP Seminar Series: Moving closer or further apart? | CSMaP October 30, 2020 Credibility and Trust