March 15, 2021 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... Read more »
March 5, 2021 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... Read more »
February 17, 2021 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... Read more »
January 26, 2021 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... Read more »
January 25, 2021 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... Read more »
January 18, 2021 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,... Read more »
December 6, 2020 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... Read more »
November 15, 2020 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... Read more »
November 2, 2020 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... Read more »
November 2, 2020 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... Read more »