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Fighting Election-Related Disinformation with the Election Integrity Partnership | Cyber Policy Center | Stanford University
August 7, 2020
As we observed in the United States in 2016, and in numerous other countries since, the spread of viral misleading…
3 ways U.S. politicians may weaponize foreign disinformation | Axios
by Zach Dorfman
August 6, 2020
U.S. political actors will keep weaponizing the impact of widespread foreign disinformation campaigns on American elections, making these operations that…
Russian Intelligence Agencies Push Disinformation on Coronavirus Pandemic | The New York Times
by Julian E. Barnes & David E. Sanger
July 31, 2020
Russian intelligence services have been spreading disinformation about the coronavirus pandemic, according to newly declassified intelligence, material that demonstrates how…
Facebook and Twitter fail to fact-check Trump’s latest claims about mail-in voting in the 2020 elections | Vox
by Shirin Ghaffary
July 31, 2020
Uncovering and explaining how our digital world is changing — and changing us. Twitter and Facebook are not fact-checking factually…
Digital Disinformation: Jane Lytvynenko, Buzzfeed News | Data & Society | American Press Institute
July 28, 2020
The pandemic has thrown into sharp relief the ways mis- and disinformation corrupt public narratives and shape public opinion. False…
Announcing the Election Integrity Partnership | Stanford Internet Observatory
by Stanford Internet Observatory
July 28, 2020
The Election Integrity Partnership is a coalition of research entities focused on supporting real-time information exchange between the research community,…
“Fake news” may have limited effects beyond increasing beliefs in false claims | HKS Misinformation Review
by Andrew M. Guess
July 27, 2020
Since 2016, there has been an explosion of interest in misinformation and its role in elections. Research by news outlets,…
Tracking Misinformation Campaigns in Real-Time Is Possible, Study Shows | Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
by B. Rose Huber
July 24, 2020
A research team led by Princeton University has developed a technique for tracking online foreign misinformation campaigns in real time,…