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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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...
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,...
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...
Russia’s Use of Domestic Disinformation Isn’t Stopping Post-Election Day
Election Day has come and gone, but Americans still face a barrage of mis- and disinformation aimed at discrediting...
Foreign State-Sponsored Narratives on Mail-in Voting and Social Media Reach
With Election Day tomorrow, coverage of mail-in voting from state-backed outlets has only increased, aiming to denigrate trust in...
Foreign Influence and the 2020 Election: What We’ve Seen and What’s to Come
The lead-up to Election Day in 2020 has had many twists and turns. Throughout the past year, however, we’ve...