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Americans Plan To Follow Election Returns Closely; Biden Supporters More Confident Their News Sources Will Make Right Call | Pew Research Center
by Amy Mitchell, Mark Jurkowitz, J. Baxter Oliphant & Elisa Shearer
October 21, 2020
Pew Research Center’s American News Pathways project conducted this study to understand how Americans are engaging with and perceiving news…
Fake News Site Courier Spends Millions to Boost Vulnerable House Democrats | National Review
by Tobias Hoonhout
October 14, 2020
A for-profit media company funded by major Democratic donors Reid Hoffman and Laurene Powell Jobs has created hundreds of millions…
Disinformation on Facebook Has Neighbors Fighting in Milford, Michigan | Bloomberg
by Sarah Kopit
October 13, 2020
Gary Fiyalko doesn’t wear a mask. Won’t wear one. Gary believes masks are for political sheep. He’s ready for this…
The Voter-Fraud Disinformation Campaign | Harvard Magazine
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
October 8, 2020
How did mail-in voting, a practice that U.S. states have implemented for decades, become so polarized in a matter of…
Teaching in the time of Fake News and an Election | Macmillan Learning
October 5, 2020
This is the most exciting and challenging time to be teaching Mass Communication. Bettina Fabos and Chris Martin - coauthors…
How Internet-connected voter check-in devices can create election chaos | Ars Technica
by Timothy B. Lee
October 2, 2020
A federal judge in Georgia has ordered election officials to print paper backups of voter data so that voting can…
The Attack on Voting in the 2020 Elections | The New York Times
by Jim Rutenberg
October 2, 2020
On an October morning four years ago, eight young staff members at the Indiana Voter Registration Project in Indianapolis were…
Americans Feel Overwhelmed by the News. Here’s How They Adapt. | Knight Foundation
by Helen Stubbs
September 30, 2020
Americans often feel overwhelmed by the volume of news, saying they are frequently unable to sort out the facts and…
Follow the Ad: Uncovering Election Interference behind Data-Driven Digital Platforms | Shorenstein Center
September 29, 2020
Election interference raises grave normative concerns. Unfortunately, due to conceptual and methodological challenges, little scientific knowledge has been generated about…