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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Information integrity
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...
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...
How Russia Covered Election 2020’s “October Surprise”
Russian media outlets favored sensationalized reporting on the alleged scandals surrounding Hunter Biden throughout 2020 and the responses by...
Moscow’s War on Silicon Valley: Information Integrity and the 2020 Election
Four years ago, Russian state-sponsored disinformation operations weaponized “Big Tech” platforms as tools to attempt to manipulate the outcome...