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Focus Tag: Voters

Regulation and Policy Election Interference

Elizabeth Warren wants harsher penalties for sharing disinformation about voting | The Verge

by Russell Brandom

January 30, 2020

On Wednesday, presidential hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) unveiled a new plan to fight disinformation, aiming to stem the effect…

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Targets of Disinformation Election Interference

On Digital Disinformation and Democratic Myths

December 10, 2019

What is the sound of a thousand social media bots clapping? For two years, from 2015 to 2017, the Russian…

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How Misinformation Spreads Election Interference

WhatsApp fake news during Brazil election ‘favoured Bolsonaro’ | The Guardian

by Daniel Avelar

October 31, 2019

The vast majority of false information shared on WhatsApp in Brazil during the presidential election favoured the far-right winner, Jair…

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Producers of Disinformation

Pro-Trump super PACs draw scrutiny for Facebook ads seeking voter registration data | Washington Post

by Tony Romm and Isaac Stanley-Becker

October 28, 2019

Thousands of Facebook users in Arizona may have been startled to see a strange warning appear in their social feeds…

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