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A contentious local election revealed an information gap. High school reporters stepped up to fill it. | Poynter
by Angela Fu
December 15, 2020
Last fall as Facebook geared up to fight misinformation related to the 2020 elections, residents of Sammamish, Washington, realized they…
Report: Facebook’s misinformation checks on Georgia runoff are failing | Axios
by Ashley Gold
December 7, 2020
Misinformation is proliferating on Facebook about January's Senate election in Georgia despite the company's stated plans to keep conspiracy theories…
Digital Technology, Social Media, and the 2020 Presidential Election | Stanford Cyber Policy Center
December 4, 2020
The 2020 election may be over, but the debate over the role of technology in the election has only just…
A nationwide fact-checking collaboration gets ready for elections in Ghana | Poynter
by Harrison Mantas
December 3, 2020
Ghanaians heading to the polls for the Dec. 7 presidential election will be aided by the largest fact-checking collaboration in…
Why The Washington Post ran an ad that claimed the election was rigged | Poynter
by Tom Jones
December 3, 2020
The Washington Post made the questionable decision on Tuesday to run a full-page ad from a private citizen who argued…
The election is over, but voter fraud conspiracies aren’t going away | MIT Technology Review
by Abby Ohlheiser
December 2, 2020
President Trump’s conspiracy-theory-fueled plan to overturn his defeat in the 2020 elections targeted six states that President-elect Joe Biden narrowly…
Expert breaks down the ultimate goal of Trump’s ‘classic Russian-style disinformation campaign’ | Alternet
by Elizabeth Preza
December 1, 2020
Jonathan Rauch, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institute, spoke with CNN's Brian Stelter on Sunday to explain the ultimate…
America’s Role in the World | Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies
November 30, 2020
The Hamilton Lugar School’s sixth conference on America's Role in the World® will pay tribute to Rep. Lee H. Hamilton,…
“What do the data tell us about election 2020?” panel | NULab at Northeastern University
November 30, 2020
Please join us for “What do the data tell us about election 2020?” a panel that will feature: Erika Franklin…