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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…
Podcast: How democracies can go on offense against disinformation | Brookings
by Quinta Jurecic, Alina Polyakova, & Daniel Fried
December 7, 2020
Rather than just playing defense, how can democracies can go on offense against disinformation? That’s a question Alina Polyakova, the…
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…
“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…
How to deal with AI-enabled disinformation | Brookings
by John Villasenor
November 24, 2020
Rapid disinformation attacks—i.e., attacks in which disinformation is unleashed quickly and broadly with the goal of creating an immediate disruptive…
How Misinformation ‘Superspreaders’ Seed False Election Theories | The New York Times
by Sheera Frenkel
November 24, 2020
Over the next week, the phrase “Stop the Steal” was used to promote dozens of rallies that spread false voter…
The disinformation system that Trump unleashed will outlast him. Here’s what reality-based journalists must do about it. | The Washington Post
by Margaret Sullivan
November 23, 2020
President Trump didn’t create the media cesspool that he’ll bequeath to a troubled nation. He just made it exponentially worse…
After Trump tweets Defcon hacking video, voting security experts call BS | Ars Technica
by Dan Goodin
November 17, 2020
As President Trump continues to make unfounded claims of widespread election fraud, 59 of the world’s foremost experts on electronic…
US election official: Trump’s misinformation is dangerous and lacks any credibility | MIT Technology Review
by Patrick Howell O'Neil
November 16, 2020
On Thursday, President Donald Trump sent an all-caps tweet claiming that voting machines from a company called Dominion Voting Systems…