Foreign Interference in Elections 2022 and 2024: What Should We Prepare For?
The methods, mediums and messengers pushing propaganda, misinformation and disinformation have changed dramatically since 2016. Research examining the problem...
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FIE 2020
For Whom the Bird Tweets: Analyzing State Media Citing Twitter Throughout the 2020 Election Cycle
How embedding selected tweets in coverage in the lead-up to the 2020 election allowed RT and Sputnik News to...
The World Wide Web’s Break Up: State-Backed Media’s Role in Supporting Internet Fragmentation
The inevitable consequence of revealing the Internet and social media’s power has been a breaking apart of the World...
Russia Tried Again, Iran Antagonized, and China Didn’t Show: Insights and Lessons Learned on Foreign Influence in Election 2020
The 2020 election provided five key insights and takeaways regarding election interference challenges on the methods, mediums, and actors...
Foreign State-Sponsored Coverage of the American Press During the 2020 Election
Russia, China, and Iran and their corresponding state-backed media outlets are all known to push state-driven narratives critical of...
Inauguration Day: Russia, Iran and China Cover the Start of Biden’s Presidency
Russia, Iran and China all covered the start of the Biden administration in varying tones. These countries' state media's...
Foreign State-Backed Media Criticize the U.S. and Big Tech After Capitol Storming
In the wake of the riots and violent storming of the U.S. capitol in Washington, D.C., on January 6,...
RT and Sputnik News on Facebook and Big Tech in 2020
On RT and Sputnik News in 2020, many articles focused on Big Tech companies and criticisms of efforts to...
How Chinese Disinformation and Conspiracies Are Shaping the Information War
As China increases control over its own information space at home and seeks to further cement its influence abroad,...
COVID-19 Vaccine Conspiracies & the Next Wave of Disinformation
Ultimately, disinformation narratives are like Mad Libs–conspiratorial templates where the bogus claims stay the same but the characters and...