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The Cybersecurity 202: In this Colorado county, election conspiracies led to a real-world leak | The Washington Post
by Joseph Marks
August 27, 2021
Election conspiracy theories are threatening to cause real-world cyber vulnerabilities. Exhibit A: the county clerk of Mesa County, Colo. allegedly…
How Eric Coomer Became the ‘Perfect Villain’ for Voting Conspiracists | The New York Times
by Susan Dominus
August 27, 2021
It was already late on Nov. 9 when Eric Coomer, then the director of product strategy and security for Dominion…
How A Pro-Trump Local News Site Pushes Election Misinformation | NPR
by Stephen Fowler
July 6, 2021
If you don't follow politics in Georgia closely — or even if you do — you might be forgiven for…
To Fight Online Misinformation, Criminalize Voter Suppression | WIRED
by J. Scott Babwah Brennen and Matt Perault
June 14, 2021
This week, Senator Joe Manchin announced that he won’t support HR 1, the sweeping election reform legislation that passed the…
Here’s How Disinformation Drives Voting Laws | The New York Times
by Maggie Astor
May 13, 2021
When State Representative Bobby Kaufmann of Iowa spoke in February in support of a restrictive voting bill he was sponsoring,…
How fringe candidates use misinformation to gain outsized online influence | First Draft
by Bethan John and Lydia Morrish
May 11, 2021
Their misleading, attention-grabbing campaign videos are viewed by thousands — sometimes hundreds of thousands — of voters. But just how much…
Peru’s surprise presidential front runner has fewer than 8,000 Twitter followers | Rest of World
by Jimena Legard
April 16, 2021
When CNN announced the results for the first round of Peru’s presidential election on Sunday, April 11, the image they…
Dominion: will one Canadian company bring down Trump’s empire of disinformation? | The Guardian
by David Smith
April 5, 2021
When Donald Trump and his allies pushed the “big lie” of voter fraud and a stolen election, it seemed nothing…
The Storming of the Capitol and the Future of Speech Online | Stanford
January 20, 2021
Social media and digital technologies have come under fire for their contribution to the development of the groups that ultimately…