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Google and Facebook are both considering new rules banning the micro-targeting of political ads, according to reports. Critics of political advertising online have long worried that the ability to display […]
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Nigeria went to the polls to elect a new president and a national parliament on February 23, 2019. With two main contenders vying for the presidency, incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari obtained […]
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Election officials and social media firms already flummoxed by hackers, trolls and bots are bracing for a potentially more potent weapon of disinformation as the 2020 election approaches — doctored […]
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The vast majority of false information shared on WhatsApp in Brazil during the presidential election favoured the far-right winner, Jair Bolsonaro, a Guardian analysis of data suggests. The analysis sheds […]
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Thousands of Facebook users in Arizona may have been startled to see a strange warning appear in their social feeds earlier this month. “Official records show that your voter registration […]
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This research review addresses the concept of election interference, specifically online or digital election interference. The phenomenon has gained a great deal of popular and scholarly attention since 2014, particularly following the election of Donald Trump and accusations of foreign meddling in European elections.
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Our general elections have been “largely clean” and mostly free of mis- and disinformation. That’s according to a study published earlier this month that found no evidence of foreign activity […]
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As the impeachment inquiry heats up, members of Congress and the media are left with the difficult job of untangling the conspiracy theory that seems to have driven the president’s […]
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Canadian fact-checkers are pleasantly surprised by a low amount of false electoral content | Poynter
End Google Tag Manager (noscript) Canadians will elect a new Parliament in two weeks. The incumbent Liberals, led by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, will attempt to retain their majority Oct. 21 against […]