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 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
News Item Trump’s viral megaphone fueled by Twitter army in lead-up to election | The Washington Post By Elizabeth Dwoskin and Craig Timberg on October 30, 2020 Algorithms and Automation
News Item How a fake persona laid the groundwork for a Hunter Biden conspiracy deluge | NBC By Ben Collins and Brandy Zadrozny on October 29, 2020
News Item Is Twitter Going Full Resistance? Here’s the Woman Driving the Change. | POLITICO By Nancy Scola on October 28, 2020 Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance
News Item Following politicians on social media exposes audiences to more misinformation | The Media School By Betsi Grabe & James Shanahan on October 28, 2020
News Item How Americans Adopted Russia’s Election Disinformation Playbook | The New York Times By Isabelle Niu, Kassie Bracken and Alexandra Eaton on October 25, 2020
Event Organizing Online Foreign Influence Efforts: Lessons from Topic Models and Content-Based Detection | Shorenstein Center November 18, 2020
Event The Common Room: Managing Political Difference on the Virtual Campus | PEN America October 30, 2020