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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…
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…
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,…
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,…
How users see Facebook’s labels will determine their effectiveness | Poynter
by Harrison Mantas and Susan Benkelman
July 24, 2020
What does a label really mean? This week, Facebook attached “Get Voting Information” links to posts by both President Donald…
Asymmetrical perceptions of partisan political bots | SAGE Journals
by Harry Yaojun Yan, Kai-Cheng Yang, Filippo Menczer, and James Shanahan
July 20, 2020
Political bots are social media algorithms that impersonate political actors and interact with other users, aiming to influence public opinion.…
System Set Up to Fight Fake News During U.S. Presidential Election | Variety
by Naman Ramachandran
July 16, 2020
Fake news fighter Trusted News Initiative (TNI) is setting up a shared early warning system of rapid alerts to combat…
Facebook’s plan: Make nice, but don’t give in | Axios
by Scott Rosenberg and Kyle Daly
July 16, 2020
Facebook last week took steadily intensifying heat from fleeing advertisers and boycott leaders and received a big thumbs-down from its…